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Updated: June 27, 2025
"No more of your doctoring for me!" cried the grum Esther; "no more of your quiddities in a healthy family, say I! Here was I doing well, only a little out of sorts with over instructing the young, and you dos'd me with a drug that hangs about my tongue, like a pound weight on a humming-bird's wing!"
"Well," said Felix, when he got his second wind, "I'll be awful glad to see father again, but I tell you I don't like the thought of leaving here." I felt exactly the same but, in view of Sara Ray's tears, admit it I would not; so I sat in grum silence while the other tongues wagged. "If I were not going away myself I'd feel just terrible," said the Story Girl. "Even as it is I'm real sorry.
In one way he is gay; he is very pleasant; not stiff or grum, like Mr. Hardenburgh; and he is amusing too, in a quiet way, but he is amusing; he is so cool and so quick. O no, he's not gay in the way you mean. I guess he's good." "Do you like him?" Mrs. Bartlett asked. "Yes," said Diana, thinking of the night of Eliza Delamater's accident. "He is very queer."
The rose-tree was fairly planted; that would keep on speaking to Molly without the fear of a rebuff; and somehow Daisy's heart was warm towards the gruff old creature. How forlorn she had looked, sitting in the dirt, with her grum face! "But perhaps she will wear a white robe in heaven!" thought Daisy.
Near by stood an oak-tree, in which a jay-bird was screaming and dancing in a jerky way. Sukey then looked away into the blue sky, and the clouds seemed to become pagodas, and palm-trees, and golden ships floating drowsily away. All at once she heard somebody say, in a queer, birdlike voice "Pray, look this way, little Sukey Gray. May I make bold to say you are looking grum to-day?
For the King seemed to them no more gruff and grum than usual. All the wishes of the strangers were regarded, and they were treated like distinguished guests in the palace. But the Hermit kept his eyes open. And one other was not blind to the King's hatred.
Lorimer. "Why, in the almanac, bless ye!" said she, with a tone of pity in her grum voice; could it be possible he didn't know, the Deephaven minister! We asked her to come and see us. She said she had always thought she'd get a chance some time to see Miss Katharine Brandon's house. She should be pleased to call, and she didn't know but she should be down to the shore before very long.
The grum top-chain voice of Captain Spike had nothing there to mingle with, or interrupt its harsh tones, and it instantly brought on deck Harry Mulford, the mate in question, apparently eager to receive his orders. "Did you hail, Captain Spike?" called out the mate, a tight, well-grown, straight-built, handsome sailor-lad of two or three-and-twenty one full of health, strength and manliness.
It is stronger now that it has stood a little while." "It might easily be that. Hot water bewitched that's what I call your tea, young lady. Waste of good cream and sugar " So it went on grumble, grumble, grumble, grum And that Rachel actually put her arm round his neck and kissed his cross red face. "It is not the tea that is bad, dear, it is your poor old foot. Cheer up!
He added that he had been told by Robert Valbringue, who lately passed that way in his return from Africa, that a sixth kind was to fly hither out of hand, which he called capus-hawks, more grum, vinegar-faced, brain-sick, froward, and loathsome than any kind whatsoever in the whole island. Africa, said Pantagruel, still uses to produce some new and monstrous thing.
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