Vincy, wishing to combine a little grumbling with domestic cheerfulness.
" Fred's voice had taken a tone of grumbling remonstrance, and Mr.
I should hear less grumbling when my tithe is paid.
The other children followed, and the Station Master shut the door in the face of the crowd, which stood a little while in the booking office talking and looking at the fast closed yellow door, and then by ones and twos went its way, grumbling.
THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TOAD The front door of the hollow tree faced eastwards, so Toad was called at an early hour; partly by the bright sunlight streaming in on him, partly by the exceeding coldness of his toes, which made him dream that he was at home in bed in his own handsome room with the Tudor window, on a cold winter's night, and his bedclothes had got up, grumbling and protesting they couldn't stand the cold any longer, and had run downstairs to the kitchen fire to warm themselves; a
Then they all started grumbling at each other.
" This was grumbling.
Presumably it was worth grumbling about more than this picky lady's anecdote.
You might believe you'll stay young and free-spirited forever, but one day you'll find yourself grumbling about not understanding the latest slang words and asking a young person what a meme is.
That being said, you get no brownie points for grumbling.
You may be perennially grumbling about the global warming tragedy but this well-known region in Africa now has a different story to share.
bear , The old man is a bear; he is always grumbling.
There was much grumbling among those waiting,but one man made light of the situation.
As Moore observes: 'If you ever accidentally cut someone in a line in Britain, what you'll hear will be grumbling, whingeing, under-the-breath comments and sighs: the barely audible sounds of half-a-dozen people deciding, all at once, not to confront you.
The world's biggest emerging economies may face problems ranging from slowing growth to corruption scandals, trade sanctions and grumbling foreign investors, but that has not stopped the World Bank from declaring they are becoming better places to do business.
9 score achieved by Britain, where complaining about health care is as popular as grumbling about the weather.
" But the carter, grumbling to himself, "You make it the worse for me, indeed!
The six scoundrels were sitting grumbling under a sail in the forecastle; ashore we could see the gigs made fast and a man sitting in each, hard by where the river runs in.
" Then followed a battle of looks between them, but the captain soon knuckled under, put up his weapon, and resumed his seat, grumbling like a beaten dog.
" askedthe man in a grumbling voice.
