grouchiest

Updated: May 15, 2025

Then, one fine day, she was all gay and smiling again, and bustled about the home with new eagerness, and told Keith a lot of things about England, and once actually danced across the floor while he was vainly trying to keep step with her. And the father tried hard to look his grouchiest when he returned home that night, but failed.

Edwin Björkman - The Soul of a Child

And when you had climbed on up and Captain Wheeler was killed and you received your commission, with me still stuck in the ranks well I never told you before but I'll say now that I was the lonesomest, grouchiest, sorest man in the whole A.E.F. It seemed to me about then that being a private was the meanest, lowest, most no-account job on earth, and I was darned near deserting and letting the Germans win the war and be hanged.

Harold Bell Wright - Helen of the Old House