"Gruffly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Elizabeth; gravely, rather than gruffly, as if she had made up her mind to things as they were, and was determined to be a belligerent party no longer. Besides, she was older now; too old to have things forgiven to her that might be overlooked in ...
— Mistress and Maid • Dinah Craik (aka: Miss Mulock)
... not at all!" Jim protested gruffly. An unmanageable silence hung between them for a few seconds; then Julia, with a murmured excuse, went to the extrication of Miss Pierce, now hopelessly involved in a surge of swarming children, and ...
— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris
... in absolute silence. Then there was a slight stir in the rear of the room. Nothing, after all; only—a woman had fainted. It was hot in the court-room that night, and no place for women, anyhow, as Colonel Ross gruffly remarked at ...
— The Statesmen Snowbound • Robert Fitzgerald
... boat and Cleary went with him. They had no difficulty in finding their way, and Sam was soon reporting to his chief, Colonel Booth, an elderly captain of the regular army, who had been placed at the head of this volunteer regiment. The colonel received him rather gruffly, and turned him over to one of his captains, telling him they would be quartered together. The colonel was inclined to pay no attention to Cleary, but when the latter mentioned the Benevolent Assimilation Company, Limited, he suddenly changed ...
— Captain Jinks, Hero • Ernest Crosby
... marching me through the dark, not toward the tunnel where I'd been slung in, but back through Thompson's black, abandoned stope, as if it had been Broadway, till the side wall of it brought us up. "Over you go," said Collins gruffly. He gave me a boost against the smooth wall of the stope, and my clawing fingers caught on the edge of a sharp shelf of stone. I swung myself up on it, mechanically, and felt my feet go through the solid stope wall, ...
— The La Chance Mine Mystery • Susan Carleton Jones
... gents ain't going to talk to us, even if they know," Bill Gregg protested, after he had been gruffly refused an answer a dozen times in the ...
— Ronicky Doone • Max Brand
... Mr. Crow responded gruffly. He went inside the store and sat down. And Jimmy Rabbit knelt before him and measured ...
— The Tale of Old Mr. Crow • Arthur Scott Bailey
... consult together, what they should do in this trying emergency—when their whisper being overheard, the sentinel called out gruffly, in the genuine dialect of his country, ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 1 • Charles James Lever
... answered rather gruffly; "mayhap I be, but you won't git no deer to-day, I'll stand drinks for the company; and if we doos start one, I'll lay on my ...
— Warwick Woodlands - Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago • Henry William Herbert (AKA Frank Forester)
... rid of them," said the captain gruffly, "what more do you want? If you go ahead they won't ...
— Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat • Ross Kay
... know anything about it," said he, gruffly. "But have no fear; I should hesitate to soil an innocent leaden bullet in ...
— Arms and the Woman • Harold MacGrath
... Stannard, gruffly; "but I want to see the colonel before I speak of it." Then the ...
— Marion's Faith. • Charles King
... "Humph!" responded Mr. Underwood, gruffly; "he'll get whatever he needs, you can depend on that. You gentlemen assist him out of the car; I'll go and despatch a messenger to the house to have everything in readiness ...
— At the Time Appointed • A. Maynard Barbour
... the chap," replied Scott, gruffly. "Perhaps you'd like to carry him his dinner and ask ...
— Across the Mesa • Jarvis Hall
... along beside the girls, his unmittened hands deep in his pockets. His very cheerfulness denied the cold, and when Ruth timidly said something about it, Neale said gruffly ...
— The Corner House Girls at School • Grace Brooks Hill
... fog became a big mastiff that came towards me and stopped and slunk round me, growling, barked gruffly, and shortly and presently became ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells
... sir, I should hope not,' said his lordship gruffly. 'Nevertheless, I am not one who wishes to ride ...
— The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont • Robert Barr
... to see him. He justly owes me a sum of money, and as I am needing it now I wanted to see if he would come across with it," answered the man gruffly. ...
— The Hero of Hill House • Mable Hale
... his appearance at ten o'clock, and went straight to the study, where at that hour the minister was always waiting him. He entered with his own smile, bending his head in morning salutation. The minister said "Good morning," but gruffly, and without raising his eyes from the last publication of the Spalding Club. Gibbie seated himself in his usual place, arranged his book and slate, and was ready to commence—when the minister, having now summoned resolution, lifted his head, fixed his eyes ...
— Sir Gibbie • George MacDonald
... Griffin gruffly. "If Leighton had any stuff in her, she'd have spoken up. I was just going to when I saw you begin to crumple. It wasn't etiquette for me to speak, but I'd have given them ...
— Miss Pat at School • Pemberton Ginther
... the vehicles to pull up the side of the hill a little in order to allow room for the other to pass. Being the lighter party as well as under obligations of gallantry, I at once gave way. While endeavoring to make a passage, the old gentleman gruffly ...
— The Land of Thor • J. Ross Browne
... from under and let it drop?" he demanded gruffly, as an offset to the womanish tenderness; but when the man gasped for breath and groaned, he took another tone: "Where ...
— The Price • Francis Lynde
... misther, if you plaise," returned Hogan, gruffly; "but we don't want your opinion here—stick to your pothooks and ...
— The Emigrants Of Ahadarra - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton
... him in undisguised surprise. Professor Brierly was oblivious to this. He was peering intently at the watch. Brasher stepped out and in a short time he returned saying gruffly: ...
— Death Points a Finger • Will Levinrew
... the house every day for milk. He wondered for which flag she died. Ruth was teaching her to write. Ruth! Some old pain hurt him just then, nearer than even the blood of the old man or the girl crying to God from the ground. The sergeant mistook the look. "They'll be buried," he said, gruffly. "Ye brought it on yerselves." And so led him ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 54, April, 1862 • Various
... tea to you theer, mum?' called Sarah gruffly, from the garden door. 'Master and Mr. Elsmere are just coomin' down t' field ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... I'm not going now," said Gladwin, gruffly. Bateato's entrance had nipped another ...
— Officer 666 • Barton W. Currie
... Gruffly the selfish old owl bade them enter, and grudgingly invited them to share his supper. The poor dove was so tired that she could scarcely eat, but the greedy bat's spirits rose as soon as he saw the viands spread ...
— Good Stories For Great Holidays - Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the - Children's Own Reading • Frances Jenkins Olcott
... the meaning of this?" he asked gruffly, as he gave the child an abrupt shake of the hand, and gazed long and scrutinisingly at her from under his bushy eyebrows. Heidi stared steadily back at him in return with unflinching gaze, for the grandfather, with his long beard and thick grey eyebrows that ...
— Heidi • Johanna Spyri
... roar from the guns that travels across the landscape seems to say gruffly: "He is ...
— The New Book Of Martyrs • Georges Duhamel
... days ago," said the Doctor, gruffly. "She asked my advice about you. I told her to take you if she wanted you, and she said she didn't know ...
— The Lilac Girl • Ralph Henry Barbour
... over their meal when the little corporal brought in another recruit, a tall overgrown lad with a pink and white boyish face, apparently several years younger than the rest. The corporal spoke less gruffly to him, and showed him his locker with something like politeness. Apparently there was something special about this Frielinghausen, as he was called; even the uniform he wore was rather less patched and threadbare than ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein
... gruffly, shaking the hand his uncle held out. "What's this the sheriff has just told me about a ...
— Counsel for the Defense • Leroy Scott
... of his high spirits. They walked back through little groups of low white houses, where the air was sweet with the smell of pine and cattle, and the men were splitting firewood and women gossiping at the doors, and then across the fields, where the peasants looked up to mutter a gruffly civil 'G'n Abend' as they turned the ox-plough at the end of the furrow. Now and then they came upon one of the large crucifixes common in the district, and stopped to examine the curious collection of painted ...
— The Giant's Robe • F. Anstey
... the world gives any of us," responded the manager gruffly, as he drew forth a sheet of paper and began to write. "Nobody can develop our brains, train our muscles, or save ...
— Ted and the Telephone • Sara Ware Bassett
... quite shocked, and began to realise what he had suffered. He could not eat the food that was brought back for him, and allowed that his head was aching dreadfully; but, after a glass of wine had been administered, it was extracted that he had met Mr. Frith at the office door, and been gruffly told that Mr. Castleford was satisfied, and he ...
— Chantry House • Charlotte M. Yonge
... wind blowing and the miller turned about so as not to face it directly they gave him half-freedom. Warrenton said gruffly to him: "Count, ...
— Robin Hood • Paul Creswick
... nonsense!" he said, as gruffly as he could—"He's not a god by any means! I'm afraid you think too ...
— The Secret Power • Marie Corelli
... cried at last, quite gruffly, "what I does I does to please myself. I likes to see people comfortable about me. If they wasn't, it's me as would be ...
— Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green • Jerome K. Jerome
... that fellow Welkin," said Smythe gruffly. "I haven't seen him for years, but he's always bothering me. Five times in the last fortnight he's had threatening letters left at my flat, and I can't even find out who leaves them, let alone if it is Welkin himself. The porter of the flats swears that no suspicious ...
— The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton
... in a sickly manner. He felt foolish—a rare condition in him, as in most fools. "Well, well," said he gruffly. "The matter needs reflection. It ...
— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini
... drinking-saloons along the street, and he could hear loud talking and quarrelling in them as he passed by. A man came out from one of them and hailed him gruffly. It frightened him, and he started to run. The man followed him for a little way, shouting savagely, and then turned back; but Ralph ran on. He stumbled, finally, on the uneven pavement, and fell headlong, bruising his side and hurting his wrist. His ...
— Burnham Breaker • Homer Greene
... it?" demanded Force gruffly. "What do you mean by 'woman of it'? Don't be silly, Bingle. She's ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon
... an order, and disappeared. The Duke withdrew to the embrasure of a window, and immediately the prisoner was gruffly announced. ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... see him before we do," replied Katz, gruffly. "And now, if you don't mind," the detective went on, "I'll just go over to the camp with you and see what the other boys say about him. And while I'm there, you might make me a couple of cups of coffee. I'm a long distance from my camp and ...
— Boy Scouts on the Great Divide - or, The Ending of the Trail • Archibald Lee Fletcher
... another of the men gruffly; "but only one is green at this time of year, and has silver-lined leaves. It was placed here by command of the giant Loki, and no one was to touch it under pain of death; for, when his mountain-garden should be laid out in the spring, the tree was to ...
— Fairy Book • Sophie May
... Scott in the saddle waited with a led horse. The two men rode straight and hard for the river bridge. They roused an old hunter who lived in a near-by hut, on the town side, and asked whether any horseman had crossed the bridge. The hunter admitted gruffly that he had heard a horse's hoof recently on the bridge. Within how long? The hunter, after taking a full precious minute to decide, said thirty minutes; moreover, he insisted that the horseman he had heard had ridden into town, and ...
— Nan of Music Mountain • Frank H. Spearman
... replied rather gruffly; "but in what capacity will you go? You are not a topographical engineer, and Captain Burling ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. II: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians • Ambrose Bierce
... Grandfather Frog gruffly. "Made it his business to learn how. Then he taught his children, and they taught their children, and after a long time it came natural to the Mink family ...
— Mother West Wind "How" Stories • Thornton W. Burgess
... the boat builder gruffly, "I'll throw you all out. Our present business deal is completed, and the papers all ...
— The High School Boys' Canoe Club • H. Irving Hancock
... through towns and cities, doing her uttermost to rouse women to some sense of their natural rights as human beings, to their civil and political rights as citizens of a republic; and while expending her time, strength, and money to secure these blessings for the women of the State, they would gruffly tell her they had all the rights they wanted, or rudely shut the door in her face, leaving her to stand outside, petition in hand, with as much contempt as if she were asking alms for herself. None but those who did that petition work in the early days for the slaves ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
... Gruffly then the Panther answered: "Brave among the brave is Panther, Son of Waub-Ojeeg, the warrior, And the brave are ever silent; But a whining dog is woman, ...
— Legends of the Northwest • Hanford Lennox Gordon
... Joe gruffly; but as this was a frequent and favourite remark of his, Moll did not take ...
— Two Little Travellers - A Story for Girls • Frances Browne Arthur
... one commanded gruffly. "Hold your man, Tolston, until I get at the reason for this fighting. Who are you? Oh, Grant! What's the trouble now? The ...
— My Lady of Doubt • Randall Parrish
... thoughts by a knock and a voice at the door. He answered gruffly, and as he looked up he saw Katherine standing in the open doorway, letting in a stream of light from the lamp she carried ...
— Audrey Craven • May Sinclair
... Both laughed gruffly, while a loiterer or two, just passing in or out the swing doors, who had stopped to listen, ...
— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... heart she longed to be able to superintend the frying of the ham, and cast many an anxious look at Mary as she broke the eggs and turned the ham, with a very comfortable portion of confidence in her own culinary powers. Jem stood awkwardly leaning against the dresser, replying rather gruffly to his aunt's speeches, which gave him, he thought, the air of being a little boy; whereas he considered himself as a young man, and not so very young neither, as in two months he would be eighteen. Barton vibrated between the fire and the tea-table, ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell
... if I did," he said somewhat gruffly, "a fellow may be mistaken, mayn't he? I don't think him a cad now, and that's ...
— Grandmother Dear - A Book for Boys and Girls • Mrs. Molesworth
... man," the doctor said gruffly, "make an appointment with this gypsy. Think of what will be said ...
— The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie
... he asked gruffly. He was vexed that the matter should occur at this time, when he was on rather cool terms with Lindsay. The case proved to be an interesting one, however. There were nervous complications; it could not be diagnosed at a glance. After ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... about Ned, or rather she had not told me as much as he did. She sobbed on his shoulder, did she? His shoulder! disgusting! She dote on him! he comfort her! It was horrible! A sudden idea struck me. "Did you kiss her, Ned?" I asked gruffly. ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, - No. 87, March, 1875 • Various
... missus!" he answered, gruffly, being by no means a polished man, "where did you ever hear of ironwork? Needles and pins is enough for you. Now don't you go ...
— Erema - My Father's Sin • R. D. Blackmore
... said Dickenson gruffly. "That is all together. There are three wagons wheeled down into the shelter of the rock, so that the blast will not ...
— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn
... gruffly, extinguishing her timid, childish voice. "You won't go for at least a quarter of an hour. All that's only a dodge to get people off in plenty of time. Come on, ...
— The Card, A Story Of Adventure In The Five Towns • Arnold Bennett
... his pocket the officer gruffly ordered me to follow him. I demanded the return of the small piece of paper which constituted my sole protection, but he rudely declined to accede to my request. I followed him and we turned into a room at the station which happened to be the ...
— Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons - Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben • Henry Charles Mahoney
... Badger gruffly. "I'm sorry that you don't care to make things as pleasant as possible for a newcomer. Where I used to live, people couldn't ...
— The Tale of Benny Badger • Arthur Scott Bailey
... when Lionel had been at home nearly a month, there came one morning a letter directed to him. His mother and Clara both offered to read it for him, but he gruffly refused, glanced it over, and put it in his pocket. He loitered through the morning, and rode with Marian in the afternoon. As they happened to meet with some entertaining subject of conversation, the ride was more cheerful ...
— The Two Guardians • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... except in the coal-bunkers," said the captain, gruffly. "Talk to me about responsibility. I'd rather run a schooner up the Hoogli than to steer that ...
— The Honorable Percival • Alice Hegan Rice
... pay for the waste she has occasioned," said Mr. Salsify, gruffly. "Let us retire now; I declare 'tis near eleven o'clock." The conspirators in the room above heard with eager ears the departure of the guests, and sat in perfect silence till midnight chimed from the old clock tower. Then Charlie Seaton, pillow-case in hand, crept ...
— Eventide - A Series of Tales and Poems • Effie Afton
... miraculous dream; And when those maidens rise they are as they ever were Save only for a rare shade of trouble in their eyes. And the surly thick-lipped men, as they sit about their huts Making drums out of guts, grunting gruffly now and then, Carving sticks of ivory, stretching shields of wrinkled skin, Smoothing sinister and thin squatting gods of ebony, Chip and grunt and do not see. But each mother, silently, Longer than her wont stays shut in the dimness of her hut, For she feels a ...
— Georgian Poetry 1916-17 • Various
... brass candlesticks on her mantlepiece the photograph of a pretty girlish face, in a broad hat with radiating folds under the brim like the rays of a halo. He had asked who she was. His grand-aunt had gruffly replied that she was his cousin Sue Bridehead, of the inimical branch of the family; and on further questioning the old woman had replied that the girl lived in Christminster, though she did not know where, ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... responded, gruffly. "HALL has the oratorical manner of a street-preacher, and the emptiness of a tankard that a thirsty porter has held to his lips for sixty seconds. Like a skilfully-drawn glass of his own four-half, he's mostly froth; only, ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100. February 21, 1891 • Various
... zouave uniform, at the door, would have me wait standing in the corridor outside; for his Excellency is at dinner. And Excellency, as affable as his zabtie, hearing the parley without, growls behind the scene and orders me gruffly to go to the court. 'This is not the place to make a complaint,' he adds. But the stranger at thy door, O gracious Excellency, complains not against any one in this world; and if he did, assure thee, he would not complain to the authorities of this world. This, or some such plainness ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani
... to make fun of everything!" answered Herbert, gruffly; and Jenny, deciding that she would see a specimen day, made her peace by consenting to share in the pastoral visit, whether to pheasant or peasant. Indeed, a walk with Herbert was one of the prime pleasures of her life—and this was delightful, along broad gravelled drives through the autumnal woods ...
— The Three Brides • Charlotte M. Yonge
... storm last night, Mr. Schmarck," he said, rubbing his hands on an oil-rag. I gruffly agreed with him in a monosyllable. "But it is lovely ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... gruffly, turning his head. And then, as she opened the door and stood upon the threshold, he stepped after her, saying: ...
— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer
... tried a side door and finally the extreme rear. He had begun to feel discouraged when, as he approached the front entrance for a second assault, he saw a light flash beyond the dark blinds. The door opened cautiously, and a voice gruffly ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson
... perhaps miles away, and carry home on her back the deer which her husband had shot. Memotas never would allow her to do anything of the kind. He did all this himself, and seemed even anxious to save her from fatigue and toil. Then when the meals were prepared she was not gruffly sent away to wait until the men had eaten, but with them and the children she sat down on terms ...
— Oowikapun - How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians • Egerton Ryerson Young
... you can go if you're so set on it," said Amos gruffly. He rose and left the room, stopping in the hall to get a bucket of buttermilk for the hogs. Nicholas went over to the window and joined Sarah Jane, who was shelling the peanuts, carefully separating the outer hulls from the inner pink skins, which were left intact for sowing. Marthy Burr, ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... lessons. A dingy little maid-of-all-work opened the door, and said that Mrs. Tipping was out shopping, but would be back soon. From the front parlour came the lifeless tum-tumming of the piano, and Mr. Tipping's voice gruffly counting time to the cheerless five-finger exercises ...
— Young Lives • Richard Le Gallienne
... bolted out Richard, gruffly; and then, ashamed of his lapsus linguae, screwed up his lips firmly, and glared on the company with an ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 • Various
... me, madam," said Foster gruffly; "and I desire not that she should get the court-tricks of lying and 'scaping—somewhat too much of that has she learned already, ...
— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott
... slovenly and ill-dressed, and when at last he did come, instead of appearing in state in splendid robes, he rose right out of the sea-bottom, covered with mud and slime, with shells sticking all over him and sea-weed clinging to his hair. He gruffly ...
— Japanese Fairy World - Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan • William Elliot Griffis
... temper; it seemed to him as he rode along that his ring was pressing into his finger, but as it did not prick him he did not heed it. When he got home and went to his own room, his little dog Bibi ran to meet him, jumping round him with pleasure. "Get away!" said the Prince, quite gruffly. "I don't want you, you ...
— The Blue Fairy Book • Various
... I spoke so gruffly," I said. "But I really believe that we are going to pull him through, and that ...
— Sweetapple Cove • George van Schaick
... in no mood to be toyed with," he said gruffly, "You said you wanted a job an' I'm being square with you. Just to show I'm ...
— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill
... turned away, while Zashue called the lad to him. But Shyuote protested, saying that only his father was to hear his communication, and Zashue at last went where the boy was standing. It vexed him, and he inquired rather gruffly what he had to say. Shyuote made a very wise and important face, placed a finger to his ...
— The Delight Makers • Adolf Bandelier
... be here any moment. You'll look hideous with red eyes," I said gruffly. It was the only thing I could think of, and perhaps it did as well as anything else, for she calmed down by degrees, and there was no more sign of ...
— The Heart of Una Sackville • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... was somewhat like a cat toying with its prey. When at length he raised his head, there was a fierce gleam in his eye and a flush in his face. I had come upon a devotee engaged in worship. This was Mike Reese, the miser and millionaire. Placing his huge left-hand on the pile of bonds, he gruffly returned ...
— California Sketches, Second Series • O. P. Fitzgerald
... peacefully by the fire, he made hurried apology, to which Fisher gruffly responded by ...
— The Tidal Wave and Other Stories • Ethel May Dell
... voice, chest notes of a musical vibration, stirred the room. The men were hers and gruffly said so. A sudden warmth enveloped her from heart to foot. She followed Mrs. Upper to the initiation in her service, clothed for the first time in ...
— The Branding Iron • Katharine Newlin Burt
... should it be?' replied the man gruffly. 'What are you trembling at? It's little enough that I've had to drink to-day, for there's no drink without money, and no money without work. What the devil's the matter with ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens
... to Tchalisov already," said the bass voice still more gruffly. "Yesterday we were the whole day looking for him down the line, and were told at his hut that he had gone to the Dymkovsky section. Please take them, your honour! How much longer are we to go carting them about? We go carting them ...
— Love and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... drew their rapiers with a flourish, and, crossing them overhead, made an arch of steel under which the women must pass. Haward's blade touched that of an old acquaintance. "I have been leaning upon the back of a lady's chair," said the latter gruffly, under cover of the music and the clashing steel,—"a lady dressed in rose color, who's as generous (to all save one poor devil) as she is fair. I promised her I would take her message; the Lord knows I would go to the bottom of ...
— Audrey • Mary Johnston
... through the morning. He went into stores, big and little. Sometimes they answered politely—sometimes gruffly; but no one hesitated a moment. He went past warehouses, where men were loading wagons—surely there would be ...
— Samuel the Seeker • Upton Sinclair
... Thinking of fire, she hastily crossed the stile that divided their garden from the waste land, and ran to it. There she was confronted by what she took to be a bear—but a bear that could talk; for he gruffly asked her who she was and what she wanted. A black-haired, black-browed man, with a pipe between his teeth, and one sinewy ...
— Elster's Folly • Mrs. Henry Wood
... he asked, in a more natural voice, and when we explained he laughed gruffly. "I never saw two strangers ...
— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs
... myself," said Father Bear, gruffly, "and leave the children home with you. But you can go, Fairy," he said to Teddy. "I'll carry you on my back if you like, and maybe you'll see me catch a young walrus. I suppose it was you who split him down the back, as the Counterpane ...
— The Counterpane Fairy • Katharine Pyle
... faint radiance cast through the doorway by the lamp in his own cabin. Maybe the proper thing would be to give them a kiss apiece? He could not be sure, being a childless man. He ended by saying good-night so gruffly that Myra fancied he must ...
— Shining Ferry • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... place for a young gal arter dark," said Ben gruffly, but pushing his boat out into the stream. "For my part, I can't make out what brings you up into the hills so often. Why don't you come home for good and all? Miss Lina don't want ...
— Mabel's Mistake • Ann S. Stephens
... affection. The gay ribbons that laced his cuirass, the red and blue embroidery that edged his "taxiarch's" cloak, were from the needle of his daughter. Hermione kissed him as she stood with her mother in the aula. He coughed gruffly when he answered their "farewell." The house door closed behind him, and Hermione and Lysistra ran into one another's arms. They had given to Hellas their best, and now must look ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... morning he was aroused from a deeptoned and laborious stertoration, by a figure that shook him as he lay, in a somewhat unceremonious fashion. The intruder was wrapped in a thick cloak or tunic, and he stood gruffly erect by the straw couch, whereon the prisoner's night-dreams had nestled in ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... the unenviable but descriptive title the new-comer was known by: and though she knew it for her soubriquet, yet she also knew Mrs. Rooney would not call her by it if she were not in an ill temper, so she began humbly to explain the cause of her visit, when Mrs. Rooney broke in gruffly— ...
— Handy Andy, Vol. 2 - A Tale of Irish Life • Samuel Lover
... don't see as that is any business of yours," the old man answered gruffly. "I don't mind owning that I have handled many a keg in my time, but you can't bring that ...
— By Conduct and Courage • G. A. Henty
... Peter retorted rather gruffly. "She isn't a servant looking for a place. I've told you ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson
... man gruffly, in Lingua Franca, "thy knock might imply friendship, but thine appearance here at such an hour requires more explanation ...
— The Pirate City - An Algerine Tale • R.M. Ballantyne
... to shift a bit," he said gruffly. "Going to where you had your camp. I'll dig up the gold there, and then I'll see what ...
— The Young Treasure Hunter - or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska • Frank V. Webster
... at Dick for a moment with compressed eyebrows, rather taken aback at the lad's refined tone and manner of speech; then he nodded, and remarked gruffly: ...
— The Adventures of Dick Maitland - A Tale of Unknown Africa • Harry Collingwood
... gruffly, "You've passed me twice. You can't be roaming the streets at this time of night. ...
— He Fell in Love with His Wife • Edward P. Roe
... he commanded gruffly, and slung his pack upon the ground. She obeyed, muttering the while, and Jacques watched her as he filled and ...
— The Promise - A Tale of the Great Northwest • James B. Hendryx
... tremble again and put forth all his strength to keep himself in hand. "Don't talk!" he said gruffly. ...
— The Lamp in the Desert • Ethel M. Dell
... our business, not yours," said Winter, gruffly decisive. "I cannot expose you two gentlemen to any personal risk ...
— Number Seventeen • Louis Tracy
... trouble when trouble is on the wing!—came along, saw them, and ran up the steps. "Here! What are you doing with that girl?" he called gruffly. ...
— Strictly Business • O. Henry
... a long, troubled, searching look, then said gruffly: "Very well, but don't make any fuss about it. Women are such nervous beings and we don't want ...
— Uncanny Tales • Various
... tramp. He wore a long overcoat, buttoned to his chin, with the collar turned up. A slouch hat pulled well down over his eyes so far concealed his face that his features were scarcely visible. He came over to my desk and gruffly asked, "What time is there a ...
— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady
... Calvin remarked gruffly. "Can't you speak up in the way of the season? Come, buck ...
— The Wooing of Calvin Parks • Laura E. Richards
... is useless," he answered gruffly. "I do not make the law; I have only to support it. Every good ...
— The Rome Express • Arthur Griffiths
... to use nitroglycerine," retorted Hemingway, gruffly, "also knows that it's against the law to ship nitroglycerine unlabeled. He also knows that it's against the law for an express company to transport the stuff on a car that is part of a passenger train. So this fellow who calls himself ...
— The High School Freshmen - Dick & Co.'s First Year Pranks and Sports • H. Irving Hancock
... ladyship, rather gruffly, as, with no very amiable expression of countenance, she bowed, with her haughtiest dignity, to a rather common-looking ...
— Henrietta Temple - A Love Story • Benjamin Disraeli
... thank him for; although for that matter, I suppose, I had reason to think even worse of him than anybody else, for I had seen him meditating a fresh treachery upon the plateau. Accordingly, it was pretty gruffly that ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... all aglow with admiration for our bicycles, produces a tattered memorandum and begs us to favor him with our autographs, an act that of itself proves him to be not without a degree of intelligence one would scarcely look for in a sheepskin-clad shepherd of Slavonia. Igali gruffly bids the man "begone," and aims a careless kick at the proffered memorandum; but seeing no harm in the request, and, moreover, being perhaps by nature a trifle more considerate of others, I comply. As he reads ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens
... eyes. At sight of the fire made up, and two strangers eyeing him keenly, he stared, and there was a severe and pretty successful effort to be calm; still a perceptible tremor ran all over him. Soon he manned himself, and said gruffly. "Good morrow. But at the very moment of saying it he missed his axe, and saw how Gerard was sitting upon it, with his own laid ready to his hand. He lost countenance again directly. Denys smiled grimly at this bit ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... "This way," said I gruffly, taking no notice of his attempts to be funny. "We'd better make straight for the mountains ...
— At the Point of the Sword • Herbert Hayens
... the laziest boatmen in the world. They lounge about, in obstinate and inflexible pantaloons that are apparently made of wood, the whole season through. Whether talking together about the shipping in the Channel, or gruffly unbending over mugs of beer at the public- house, you would consider them the slowest of men. The chances are a thousand to one that you might stay here for ten seasons, and never see a boatman in a hurry. A certain expression about his loose hands, when they are not in his pockets, as if he ...
— Reprinted Pieces • Charles Dickens
... fierce protest among the marooned pirates but the carpenter's mate gruffly demanded to know if they wished to be carried into the harbor and turned over to Blackbeard. This gave the mob something to think about and they permitted the boat to pull away from them ...
— Blackbeard: Buccaneer • Ralph D. Paine
... at daylight," said Captain gruffly. Anger came slowly to him, and its trace was even slower in ...
— Pardners • Rex Beach
... Clancy laughed gruffly, pulled another chair to the opposite side of the table, sat down himself, and eyed Smarlinghue coldly for ...
— The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... the skipper gruffly, "but I wouldn't trust them. If a King's ship wants men, good smart sailors such as ours, men who have served, her captain wouldn't be above shutting his eyes and making a mistake. Anyhow I'm going to crack on as hard as I can till she brings ...
— The Ocean Cat's Paw - The Story of a Strange Cruise • George Manville Fenn
... is this?" he gruffly said, A moment pausing to regard her;— "Why weepest thou, my little chit?" And then she only cried ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 • Various
... two shovels, an old one and a new one," said the giant gruffly. "You may take your choice. Dig away until you find the slumber-pin. I shall expect it when ...
— Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore • Laure Claire Foucher
... furious. He gruffly ordered his subjects back, and his beady eyes glared at the impostor, but he was too much of a diplomat to display his feelings further. The soldiers had been amused at first, but they realized the danger of trifling with the sultan. Every tree and corner of the jungle would respond with ...
— The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy - A Book for Young and Old • Florence Partello Stuart |
