"Gruffly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gruffly expressed his opinion that Mr. Mountjoy would not be particularly cheerful, in his place. My lord had taken him to the office, on the distinct understanding that he was to earn a little pocket-money by becoming one of the contributors to the newspaper. ...
— Blind Love • Wilkie Collins
... powder?" said Dickenson gruffly. "That is all together. There are three wagons wheeled down into the shelter of the rock, so that the blast ...
— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn
... priggishness. The manly man, to my mind, is the man who does not trouble his head as to whether he is manly or not, not the man who wears clothes too big for him, and heavy boots, treads like an ox, and speaks gruffly; that is a pose, not better or worse than other poses. And what I want in the book is a man of simple and direct character, interested in his work, and not ashamed of his interest; attached to the boys, and not ashamed of ...
— The Upton Letters • Arthur Christopher Benson
... a threesome," said the Banker gruffly. "What do you take me for?" and the Very Young Man sighed with the ...
— The Girl in the Golden Atom • Raymond King Cummings
... direction for Wrexham, he answered in a surly manner in English, that I was. I again spoke to him in Welsh, making some indifferent observation on the weather, and he answered in English yet more gruffly than before. For the third time I spoke to him in Welsh, whereupon looking at me with a grin of savage contempt, and showing a set of teeth like those of a mastiff, he said, "How's this? why you haven't a word of English? ...
— Wild Wales - Its People, Language and Scenery • George Borrow
... they were waiting for now. It was nearly the end of October, and the day which both dreaded was nearly at hand, the anniversary of her death. They spoke not a word to each other about it, except once when Joe said gruffly: ...
— His Second Wife • Ernest Poole
... to the Close, to gruffly inquire where the cottage boys were, and what they had been doing, for Bevis was known to hanker after their company, to go catching loach under the stones in the stream that crossed the road, and creeping under the arch of the bridge, and taking the moor-hens' eggs ...
— Wood Magic - A Fable • Richard Jefferies
... from the Times wanted to talk with him, it seemed. Johnny gruffly told him over the house 'phone that he didn't care to be interviewed. "You boys get too fresh," he censured. "You don't stick to facts. You're going to get in trouble if you don't let up on me. I hate this publicity ...
— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower
... frocks?" asked Audrey. She spoke a little gruffly, but it was from shyness, and the thought of what she was about ...
— Anxious Audrey • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... 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 ...
— The Curious Book of Birds • Abbie Farwell Brown
... after all," said Paul—he spoke gruffly to try to conceal the sob in his throat,—"and I call it beastly hard lines. It isn't as though it would cost so very much more than any other holiday, and father knows we have never been so far before, and how we were looking forward to it, and ...
— Paul the Courageous • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... a fool," said Percival, gruffly. "But—good God! think of the months we have gone through. I say," with a sudden and complete change of tone, "you're not going to back out of our arrangements, are you? You're coming to England ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... feaster. The landlord placed the tray on the table, thankfully accepted AEsop's money, and with many salutations returned to the shelter of the Inn. AEsop filled two glasses with a shining white wine and pushed one to Peyrolles. "Drink!" he said, gruffly. ...
— The Duke's Motto - A Melodrama • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... once 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 ...
— The Delight Makers • Adolf Bandelier
... "Say," said he gruffly. "You Mr. Krootzer? Wot? Yes? Well, this kid comes to the station-house and hollers that she's stole a ring and somebody that ain't had anything to do with it is gettin' pinched fer stealin' it. The kid acts plumb bug-house, but Sarge he says fer me to come around and see wot's ...
— The Old Flute-Player - A Romance of To-day • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey
... "No," she answered gruffly, "she only wanted to be married. She was tired of playing the virgin. Did the abbess know, perchance, of any one who would suit her as bridegroom? For she ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold
... "Aye, aye," gruffly responded Green, and the oars moved rapidly, while Loveday with another sob cried, "Oh! sir, I thought you would ...
— Love and Life • Charlotte M. Yonge
... London to study society,' Sir Lionel answered, somewhat gruffly, for he thought there was much more to be said about Siam. 'I mean in that sort of way. I want to get some notions to take back to ...
— The Dictator • Justin McCarthy
... slouched on in the direction of the door that had banged. A voice in front called, 'Karl Schicker'; a nearer voice, that of the man whose footsteps I had heard approaching, took it up and called 'Karl Schicker': I, too, took it up, and, turning my back, called 'Karl Schicker' as gruffly and gutturally as I could. The footsteps passed quite close to me, and glancing over my shoulder I saw a young man passing, dressed very like me, but wearing a sealskin cap instead of a sou'-wester. As he walked he seemed to be counting coins in his palm. A hail came back ...
— Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers
... said Samson, gruffly. "You've got to go up as you come down. Here, Master Fred, show ...
— Crown and Sceptre - A West Country Story • George Manville Fenn
... death?" queried another, gruffly—"And what's the truth about this here business anyhow? Newspapers is allus full o' lies. There's a lot about a lord that's killed, but precious ...
— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli
... this morning? That is impossible. Unless his Eminence has arrested him on charge of the murder." The old gentleman laughed gruffly, little guessing how near his jest lay to the truth. But Corona looked up quickly. The mere idea of such a horrible contingency was painful to her, absurd and wildly improbable ...
— Sant' Ilario • F. Marion Crawford
... answered gruffly, and started to back out, but the girls would not let him go until each had shaken hands ...
— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods • Jessie Graham Flower
... spoke gruffly to his bath-things. "Come here! You've done enough fooling!" he reproved the treacherous soap, and defied the scratchy nail-brush with "Oh, you would, would you!" He soaped himself, and rinsed himself, and austerely ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis
... tremendously fascinated by the place in La Tentation where the Queen of Sheba visited Antoine, that's all," said Andrews gruffly. ...
— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos
... "YOU'LL do it; you're the one—" He broke off with a short, embarrassed laugh. "I was going to cut that sort of thing out," he said gruffly, "but all roads lead to Rome, it seems. I can't talk to you five minutes without—and I've got to go. I said I'd look in at ...
— The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne • Kathleen Norris
... he gruffly, "it's as plain as the nose on yer nutmeg face, that ye're steerin' a wrong coorse. You'll never make the coast on ...
— Lost in the Forest - Wandering Will's Adventures in South America • R.M. Ballantyne
... in giving one of those very music 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 of a ...
— Young Lives • Richard Le Gallienne
... made his rounds—now as a carter gruffly and clumsily driving a cart and horse of which he had managed to possess himself; anon as a stupid countryman belonging to the village on the height, noisily wanting to know why the Turks had robbed ...
— In the Track of the Troops • R.M. Ballantyne
... last night, Mr. Schmarck," he said, rubbing his hands on an oil-rag. I gruffly agreed with him in a monosyllable. "But it is ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... home again. Then giving a cake to her daughter, she sent her for water to the fountain, where Puccia found the same old woman. And when the old woman asked her for a little piece of cake she answered gruffly, "Have I nothing to do, forsooth, but to give you cake? Do you take me to be so foolish as to give you what belongs to me? Look ye, charity begins at home." And so saying she swallowed the cake in four pieces, making ...
— Stories from Pentamerone • Giambattista Basile
... our business, not yours," said Winter, gruffly decisive. "I cannot expose you two gentlemen to any personal ...
— Number Seventeen • Louis Tracy
... Cuthbert along a passage with the familiarity of a friend of the house, whilst the serving man barred the door, and answered somewhat gruffly, as though disturbed ...
— The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn - A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot • Evelyn Everett-Green
... see him, and, holding the door in her hand, made no mien to let him enter. Herr Krafft was away, she said gruffly, had been gone for about a week, she did not know where or why. He had left suddenly one morning, without her knowledge, and the following day a postcard had come from him, stating that all his things were to lie ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson
... gruffly. "Something must be done at once, for I cannot go to bed with this affair on my mind—I ...
— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola
... 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 before him. He was a sly fellow, ...
— Good Stories For Great Holidays - Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the - Children's Own Reading • Frances Jenkins Olcott
... asking you a question," said Martini gruffly. The Gadfly's behaviour seemed to him an absurd piece of affectation, and he was annoyed that Gemma should have been tactless enough to follow his example. ...
— The Gadfly • E. L. Voynich
... admirer of villainy," said the other gruffly, and the younger man, who was sitting opposite ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... of appearing before his charming acquaintance of the day before manacled like a criminal, was too much for Dan's vanity. "I give you my word of honour," he said gruffly. ...
— The Inn at the Red Oak • Latta Griswold
... said gruffly. "You're my visitor, ain't you? Do you think I'm going to let housekeeper's cat-lap be drunk at my table? ...
— Jezebel • Wilkie Collins
... are, you're fools," he said gruffly, menacingly. "And if you don't forget all about this thing you've been spouting about, I'll make it pretty darned unpleasant for you. Get me?" And, with a quick movement, he started his motor and ...
— The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House • Laura Lee Hope
... effort, raised his head. "'Tain't them I care about," he said, gruffly. "I've got to go ...
— The Monster and Other Stories - The Monster; The Blue Hotel; His New Mittens • Stephen Crane
... said gruffly, and he half turned away. "We've no time for picking sixpenn'orths, boy. Run up into the road to ...
— Brownsmith's Boy - A Romance in a Garden • George Manville Fenn
... Merrington gruffly corrected. "Miss Benson," he said, turning to the typist, who sat in a state of suspended animation over the typewriter at the word where he had left off dictating, "you can leave me for a little while and come back later. Now my man," he ...
— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees
... following them, who had chanced to stumble accidentally on their retreat. In either case they could merely wait, and learn. Some one swore without, and was sharply rebuked by another voice, which added an order gruffly. Then the outer latch clicked, and a single man stepped within, immediately closing the door. Keith could not see the girl through the small aperture, but he heard her quick exclamation, startled, yet ...
— Keith of the Border • Randall Parrish
... tea to you theer, mum?' called Sarah gruffly, from the garden door. 'Master and Mr. Elsmere are just coomin' down t' field by ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... 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 ...
— The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy - A Book for Young and Old • Florence Partello Stuart
... offered any water. Instead they were again conducted before Scar Balta, who looked at them morosely. At last he remarked gruffly: ...
— The Martian Cabal • Roman Frederick Starzl
... doctor gruffly. "And you'd better start at once; that train leaves at mid-day." And, turning to his class: "Now, ladies, if you will kindly put away those rags and give me your strict and undivided attention!"—his voice ...
— Ailsa Paige • Robert W. Chambers
... are a funny girl," he said, rather gruffly. "I thought you'd be pleased; it's not often you catch me telling a girl ...
— The Gap in the Fence • Frederica J. Turle
... that?" said the Colonel gruffly. "Yes, you can go—you can go. But behave yourself soberly, there's a good girl. And remember—no running after the other fellow to-night! I won't ...
— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell
... ter yer, though." He spoke gruffly, because the sight of her was burning him up too, with another kind of thirst. "I went an' hed myself jailed. I reckon hit won't hardly master me ...
— A Pagan of the Hills • Charles Neville Buck
... he asked gruffly. That was when he was making a professional call. "Ye're a sentimental fule, Jamie Lowden, and I'd hae no hand in helpin' ye! But if so be there was some beef extract in the hamper, 'tis so I'd hae ye mak' it—as I'm tellin' ye, mind, not as it ...
— Between You and Me • Sir Harry Lauder
... responded Joe gruffly. But his little blue eyes, alert with cunning, were never withdrawn from ...
— The Just and the Unjust • Vaughan Kester
... that it takes blood and breeding and tradition behind to carry a woman to the block with a sure step and a proud smile ...' Suddenly, he became aware of Joan's gaze, half surprised, wholly interested.... He reddened and pulled himself up gruffly. ...
— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed
... rich man," said Tom gruffly. "Maybe he's got money to burn, but poor folks like us have to earn ...
— Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance • Frances Cavanah
... said Benny 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 do ...
— The Tale of Benny Badger • Arthur Scott Bailey
... you to give her up," he said gruffly. "You can write to her and visit her. I don't want to ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... 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 ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... to his feet with a jerky movement. "I think we had best be moving now," he said gruffly. "Perhaps you'd lend us a couple of the dogs to help us down to Seal Cove; we'll give 'em a good feed when we get there. But neither Stee nor I can face three miles' tramp without something to ...
— A Countess from Canada - A Story of Life in the Backwoods • Bessie Marchant
... "Hello!" Bruce returned, rather 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
... could give no satisfactory answer, nor is it probable he expected one. After a further ebullition of wrath he honored me with another stare, surveyed me from head to foot, and with an air rather rude than polite, gruffly remarked, "Well, I suppose I must take you, and make the best of it. The ship will sail the day after tomorrow;" and he turned away, muttering something I could not distinctly hear, but which I suspect was not complimentary to ...
— Jack in the Forecastle • John Sherburne Sleeper
... go by 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 Fairy • Katharine Pyle
... showed anywhere and the door was fast shut, which was nothing strange, for the hour was late. Stepping up to the door I knocked loudly thereon with my cudgel, at first without effect, but having repeated the summons, a voice from within hailed me gruffly: ...
— Black Bartlemy's Treasure • Jeffrey Farnol
... 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
... fun of me," Benedetto gruffly answered. "Did you deceive me when you gave me the letter ...
— The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I (of 2) • Alexandre Dumas pere
... you'd better set up the rest of this matter," he said gruffly. "I'll run the press awhile." He laid down his stick and put the composing case between himself and ...
— That Printer of Udell's • Harold Bell Wright
... Paul said gruffly, "I don't know: it's about Ralph Powers. He was up here this afternoon." He looked down ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher
... 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 ...
— Fairy Book • Sophie May
... hepathetically entreated him not to tamper with their constitutions, by giving them dangerous drugs whose chemical properties he did not understand, declaring emphatically, "That nature was the best phesician after all." The Captain considered this gratuitous piece of advice as an insult, for he very gruffly bade Doctor MacAdie "Take care of his own patients; he wanted none of ...
— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie
... he acted in 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 ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... 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, ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100. February 21, 1891 • Various
... "Karibu!"* I said gruffly when I had looked him over, using one of the six dozen Swahili words I knew as yet. [*Karibu, ...
— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy
... began startled Dan gruffly. Then, instantly realizing that he was making a mistake, he broke ...
— Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis • H. Irving Hancock
... him?" Jim repeated gruffly, and turned his head away. "He was one of our most prom'nent citizens; ran the Blue ...
— The Fifth Ace • Douglas Grant
... can scarcely make myself out worse than you believe me to be." The twinkle was gone from MacNair's eyes now, and he spoke more gruffly. "Of what use is all this talk? You are firmly convinced of my character. Your opinion of me concerns me not at all. Even if I were to attempt to make my position clear to you, you would not believe ...
— The Gun-Brand • James B. Hendryx
... Violante's daughter whom they've caught with her sweetheart," Petra answered, half from her sleep. Then it occurred to her that it was imprudent to tell this to her boy, and she added, gruffly: ...
— The Quest • Pio Baroja
... make up for the time he had lost, and pointing to a corner, bade the intruders to sit down there, and not to disturb him any more. He commenced his solitary feast; and after another bumper of wine, as if tired of his own company, he gruffly demanded, "Where do you fellows come from, and whither are ...
— The Pacha of Many Tales • Frederick Marryat
... Crow, gruffly, "what's the matter with you fellows? Haven't you got tongues? You seemed to talk fast enough a ...
— Twinkle and Chubbins - Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland • L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
... get some breakfast—and take care of yourself," replied Pepper, gruffly. "Damn me if I'm not sorry I ...
— The Day of the Beast • Zane Grey
... would be a great nuisance," Hector said gruffly. "Hitherto I have had nothing to do with ladies. There were very few with the Duchess of Savoy, and whenever there were receptions or state ceremonies of any kind, I was always ready to exchange with de Lisle or Chavigny, my fellow aides-de-camp. So that during the whole time I was there, ...
— Won by the Sword - A Story of the Thirty Years' War • G.A. Henty
... doctor; and that's why I sent for you,—why I sent for you yesterday. Get out of the room, Winterbones," he then said, gruffly, as though he were dismissing from his chamber a dirty dog. Winterbones, not a whit offended, again hid his cup under ...
— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope
... know nothin' about them, just as I told you," responded Zeke gruffly. "As I said, the only way you can find that out is to go ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay
... you hotheads!" some 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? ...
— My Lady of Doubt • Randall Parrish
... a dozen murders and any number of other crimes," said Sucatash gruffly. He turned his head away. "But you got me wrong. If he was what you think, I'd smoke him up in a minute and you'd not owe me a thing. But, ma'am, I know better'n you do how you really feel. You think you want ...
— Louisiana Lou • William West Winter
... dainties; now and then a muttered low escaped his lips. Nobody noticed him or sympathized with him, except perhaps the little girl, who had come out in her sun-bonnet to help her brother bring in the fuel. He gruffly accepted her company, a little ashamed of her because she was a girl; since, however, there was no other boy by to laugh, he permitted her the delusion that ...
— The Riddle Of The Rocks - 1895 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)
... he demanded, gruffly enough. "You've got what you wanted, haven't you? What are you going to do now? What are you going to do with ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 • Various
... scaffolding was finished. Lewis the saddler was ready to nail down the carpets and hanging. Ivo offered to help him too; but being gruffly repelled, he sat down upon his heap of chips, and looked at the mountains, behind which the sun was setting in a sea of fire. His father's whistle aroused him, and ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 2 • Charles Dudley Warner
... eve of saying so, once more, when the latch of the house-door (closed to keep the rain out), rattled on its well-worn catch, and a traveller came in, who, shutting it after him, and walking straight up to the half-door of the bar, said, rather gruffly: ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens
... the American as upon those who were more accustomed to them. I at once entered the room, and was about to explain to Sir John that the American was there through no connivance of mine, when my chief asked me to be silent, and, turning to his visitor, gruffly requested him to proceed with his interesting narration. The inventor needed no second invitation, but went on with his glib talk, while Sir John's frown grew deeper, and his face became redder under his fringe of white hair. When the American had finished, Sir John ...
— The Face And The Mask • Robert Barr
... which he had been slushing down the masts. Some days later, the captured vessel reached the port to which she had been sent, and was tied up at a wharf to await condemnation. The faithful servant lingered about the ship for a time, saying that he had no place to go. At last he was gruffly ordered to leave; but, before going, he astonished the mate by begging for the tub of slush, which he said might enable him to earn a few cents along the docks. The mate carelessly told him to take the stuff, and be off; which he promptly did, ...
— The Naval History of the United States - Volume 2 (of 2) • Willis J. Abbot
... 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, into space. ...
— The La Chance Mine Mystery • Susan Carleton Jones
... the visitor into the presence of Mr Black, whose presence was more repulsive than it used to be. He received Mr Jack rather gruffly, and asked ...
— Philosopher Jack • R.M. Ballantyne
... it?" said Hawkins gruffly. "He needn't get so excited about it. Why, positively, that man looks as if he ...
— Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures • Edgar Franklin
... 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 aloud, ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens
... in a sickly manner. He felt foolish—a rare condition in him, as in most fools. "Well, well," said he gruffly. "The matter ...
— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini
... gruffly, "if that beast doesn't want to die in a dog's skin, he'd better hurry and turn into a man; for, on ...
— The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne
... especially delightful. He gave reminiscences of his stay with Tennyson on the Isle of Wight—among others, of taking a walk with him one dark evening when, suddenly, the great poet fell on his knees, and seeming to burrow in the grass called out gutturally and gruffly: "Man, get down on your marrow-bones; here are violets." Fields also gave reminiscences of Charles Sumner, showing the great senator's utter lack of any sense of humor, and among them a story of his summoning his office-boy to his presence on the eve of the Fourth ...
— Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II • Andrew Dickson White
... mad at these thievin' red, skins some day," he said gruffly. The expanse of his chest heaved slightly, like the slow swell of a calm ocean, but there was no other ...
— The Last of the Plainsmen • Zane Grey
... devil at least shall swing!" he said to himself as he turned his eyes upon Little Thunder getting his pack ponies out upon the trail. This accomplished, the Indian, pointing onward, said gruffly, ...
— Corporal Cameron • Ralph Connor
... with rage and scorn as they challenged Dale's. She walked close to him and said something in a low tone to him, at which he answered, though less gruffly than before, that ...
— Square Deal Sanderson • Charles Alden Seltzer
... never would have taken it as a gift. I know you meant that we should never find this out; but yesterday I met Mr. Owen returning from the West, and when I thanked him for a piece of justice we had not expected of him, he gruffly told me he had never paid the debt, never meant to pay it, for it was outlawed, and we could not claim a farthing. John, I have laughed at you, thought you stupid, treated you unkindly; but I know you now, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. VI.,October, 1860.—No. XXXVI. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... he replied gruffly. And as he spoke he sped from the window, where he was drumming on the pane, to the hearthrug, so that he should have the air of not having moved since Maggie's previous visit. He knew not why he made this manoeuvre, unless it was that he thought vaguely that Maggie's impression of the seriousness ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... that you've got the devil by the tail this time,' he said gruffly, as his eyes rested for a moment on Rallywood; 'but you know how to take care of yourself. Ready? We can drive to the Palace together. I have ...
— A Modern Mercenary • Kate Prichard and Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard
... "I think, Sir" said Foote, "this matter might be settled in a few words. What o'clock is it, Sir?" Macklin could not possibly see what the clock had to do with a dissertation upon Duelling, but gruffly reported the hour to be half-past nine. "Very well," said Foote, "about this time of the night every gentleman in Ireland that can possibly afford it is in his third bottle of claret, and therefore in a fair way of getting drunk; and from drunkenness proceeds quarrelling, and from ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... 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
... rounded body gave no hint of asceticism, and his merry, pure eye twinkled from the midst of a most rubicund expanse of countenance. He looked like one who had found the world a pleasant place, and Jim gruffly described him as a "jolly old bloke." But the voice of this comfortable, suave-looking missionary by no means matched his appearance. He spoke with a grave and silvery pitch that made his words seem to soar lightly over his audience. His accent was that of the genuine society man, but a delicate ...
— The Chequers - Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in - a Loafer's Diary • James Runciman
... little when he stood aloof: God's Bishops were not wont to be murdered deliberately in public. Yet it did not save him from arrest, for Raynor glanced at the Protector, and reading the order in his face stalked back and clapping Morton on the shoulder said gruffly: "Come, Lord Bishop." ...
— Beatrix of Clare • John Reed Scott
... 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
... long is this formality going on? It's as clear a case as you could have, and yet here have we been sitting an hour in this draughty yard trying to obscure it," said the soldier gruffly. "I'm sent here to administer martial law, not to kick my heels about in ...
— Kilgorman - A Story of Ireland in 1798 • Talbot Baines Reed
... "No," he said gruffly. "Can't do anything with my left hand." Hotchkiss subsided, crestfallen but alert. "I tore up that cursed telegram, but I was afraid to throw the scraps away. Then I looked around for lower ten. It was almost exactly across—my berth was lower seven, and it was, ...
— The Man in Lower Ten • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... gruffly; "I don't suppose you're going to hurt me. And I'm not going to hurt you, if ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) • Various
... 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 ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
... his throat. "What's the rest of the arithmetic?" he demanded gruffly. "I don't think much ...
— Madge Morton's Victory • Amy D.V. Chalmers
... the Severe Soldier, and once again I defeat him in an attempt at surprising my outpost, i.e., my tumbler of cool drink. He apologises gruffly but politely, and then continues ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, July 11, 1891 • Various
... interested in the chap," replied Scott, gruffly. "Perhaps you'd like to carry him his dinner and ask him to tell ...
— Across the Mesa • Jarvis Hall
... abolished by act o' Parliament," he said gruffly. "It's just a waste o' guid wood and coal. They tell me it taks twa ton o' ...
— A Dominie in Doubt • A. S. Neill
... resting his elbow on his knee and his brow on his hand, as he put a strong force on himself that he might hear Louis out without betraying himself. Louis paused in ardent contemplation of the image he had called up, and poor James gruffly whispered, 'Go on: ...
— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge |
