Growling

Examples

• He led the way out, wagging his head and growling ominously. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Then Mrs. Boucher began in a low, growling tone, gathering in wildness as she went on: 'He _is_ his father's darling, I say. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Old Barley was growling and swearing when we repassed his door, with no appearance of having ceased or of meaning to cease. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• As the brutes, growling and foaming, rushed upon the almost defenseless women I turned my head that I might not see the horrid sight. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• While he thus spoke, the growling noise became a prolonged roar, and then died away. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• On his own small estate the growling old vagabond threw up his own mountain range, like an old volcano, and its geological formation was Dust. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He was growling again, and whistling a half-strangled whistle, being an inheritance from the bulldog side of his ancestry. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I had become aware of an alarming growling overhead, and had probably expressed the fact in my countenance. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And he went off growling to himself and still wondering and wondering over the unaccountable conduct of No. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• What ship comes sailing home from India, and what English lady is this, married to a growling old Scotch Croesus with great flaps of ears? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Hold your din,' cried Sikes, as the dog retreated under the bed: still growling angrily. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Having given in a hearty shake, he retired, growling, under a form; just escaping the pewter measure which Mr. Sikes levelled at his head. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Jos liked to hear it, but the Major used to go off growling at the appearance of this woman, with her twopenny gentility. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And then the old gentleman went off, growling as before. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Then, getting on his unsteady legs, leaning heavily upon her, and growling, 'Hold still, can't you? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• With denunciations of bloodthirsty anti-national bodyguards, are heard dark growlings against a queenly name. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typist: Portia