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And I say and I think we all say that anyone who grumbles about 'privations' in England deserves to know what real war means as the women of Belgium know it." He stopped, and Norah regarded him with great pride, since his remarks were usually strictly limited to the fewest possible words. "Well, it's rather refreshing to hear you talk," remarked another squatter.
I steal a couple of mutton chops, without so much as disturbing people's sleep; the farmer grumbles a bit, but sups none the less wholesomely on what remains. You come up blowing gloriously on a trumpet, take away the whole sheep, and beat the farmer pitifully into the bargain.
She told me how hard she had worked for you." "Ah, that's just like her," growled the farmer. "I give her a comfortable home for all these years, and then she grumbles about the work." "She didn't grumble," said Ellen hastily. "She only told me how faithfully she had served you." "Yes; that comes to the same thing.
But Brown was still rather weak; he was no very happy sailor; and though he was never of the sort that either grumbles or breaks down, his spirits did not rise above patience and civility. When the other two men praised the ragged violet sunset or the ragged volcanic crags, he agreed with them.
Only, as it is your friend's habit to anticipate them he finds himself short at times, and he grumbles "in the silence of his closet," but not elsewhere. Unless I have extraordinary reverses, I shall have enough to feed me and warm me until the end of my days. Then, zut! As for gaining money by my pen, that is an aspiration that I have never had, recognizing that I was radically incapable of it.
When, however, he was laid up and placed hors du combat in the last three critical days, he needed all his faith to reconcile him to one of the most unfathomable instances of the workings of Providence. His grumbles were loud and long, and the directions which he sent from his sick bed were tinged with irritability.
A change in train orders proves to be the cause of the hindrance to our progress, and the engineer grumbles somewhat as he finds he will have to wait at a station some twenty miles further on, provided a train coming in the opposite direction is not on the side track before he gets there.
Reggie the unsatisfied, the idealist, grumbles that they ought to have been in the very front. But Eleanor and Aunt Pattie are well satisfied. They find their acquaintance all around them. It is a general flutter of fans, and murmur of talk. Already people are standing on their seats looking down on the rapidly filling church.
Snubby Nose was so little he could not climb up into the merry-go-round without help. He cried and he screamed and he howled! Tippy Toes was so little he could not climb in either but he waited patiently below. Grandpa Grumbles saw what was the matter. He lowered his green cotton umbrella and helped Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes up into the merry-go-round. Now they were ready to start.
She'd got a basin that hadn't been fired, a cracked piece of biscuit it was, up on the shelf over her head, just all over glaze, killing glaze, man, and she was putting up her hand if you please, and eating her dinner out of it. Got her dinner in it! "Eating her dinner out of it," he repeated in loud and bitter tones, and punched me hard in the ribs. "And then they comes to THAT and grumbles.
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