CABIN FEVER IN THE WORST FORM Bud Moore woke on a certain morning with a distinct and well-defined grouch against the world as he had found it; a grouch quite different from the sullen imp of contrariness that had possessed him lately.
Whether he admitted it to himself or not, the sober Bud Moore who lay on his bunk nursing a headache and a grouch against the world was ashamed of the drunken Bud Moore who had paraded his drunkenness before the man who knew Marie.
Warren has gone to the Center and Jack is nursing a grouch upstairs.
But I will say that the lawn is piled high with lumber and bricks and I never come home at night that I don't have to chase a dozen boys away--kids who think I'm a grouch because I won't have them breaking their necks at my front door.
And there was Joe grinning at him from the seat, and he was supposed to have a grouch against Joe.
That kid over in Williams--Wynant or something--has a grouch a mile long, Andy.
It was the querulous railing of a man who had been near death; it was the everlasting grouch of the sailing-man against the lordly steamboater.
She did not reply, and he set his elbows on his knees and proceeded to nurse his private grouch in silence, quite excluding his companion from his thoughts.
No one would have suspected, from the tone of his voice, that Holmes was perfectly aware that Grouch and the eminent financier were one and the same person.
I have an idea old man Grouch won't have much to say with a third party present.
I'm right in the middle of this Grouch job, and it's a dandy.
I immediately retired, and a moment later Mr. Grouch entered Raffles Holmes's den.
Your reformed burglar, who broke open my safe, and--" Grouch went on.
Two days later, about nine o'clock in the evening, Mr. Grouch again called, and Holmes received him courteously.
Grouch went heavily out, and Holmes called me back into the room.
I knew, in the first place, that so eminent a person as Mr. Blank would not come to me in the guise of a Mr. Grouch if he hadn't some very serious trouble on his mind.
The third time Grouch called I trailed him to Blank's house, and then recognized him as Blank himself.
What's the use of holding any sort of a grouch at this joyous time?
He's never been more than half-tamed, and has a standing grouch at everybody on account of his blood.
I did have a grouch and I did slam him into the road," said Matt.
I know I’ve got a grouch a mile high to-night, but I’ll soon recover.
What was only a grouchhas become intelligent faultfinding.
They will preserve his grouch until he's through living.
He might have been a grouchand given to unreasonable nagging, but with him there was always a very definite something to-day which he would specify, in short words if the occasion seemed to demand.
They had worked until one-thirty before that grouch of a Rosenblatt would call it a day.
Well, some day the old grouch would eat his words; some day he would be relating to amazed listeners that he had known Merton Gill intimately at the very beginning of his astounding career.
He was tired of this continual nagging and fussing over small matters; some day he would tell the old grouch so.
Even so, the old grouchhad been none too considerate.
I married him, too, and he run off with the albino girl and took my grouch bag with him.
Meantime Grouch left the constituency by the first train next day for Ottawa.
But whether we can carry it with a man like Grouchis hard to say.
And twenty-four hours later the vote was taken and to my intense surprise the riding was carried byGrouch the Conservative candidate.
For it appeared this (was in conversations after the election) that Grouch was a man of extraordinary magnetism.
Maybe you never happened to hear him; but, say, you ought to be there some mornin' when he limps in with the gout in both feet and a hang-over grouch from the day before!
Tryin' to get up a grouch because you wa'n't introduced?
This fine spell of weather has braced Old Hickory up until he almost forgets how he's cast himself for the great grouch collector.
Sir Peter was off side most of the time; but I don't carry no grouch for that.
When I gets the bag goin' I feels better, and whatevergrouch I has against Pinckney for not lettin' me wear my gym.
He accumulated a sort of ingrowin' grouch and soured on the whole push because they wouldn't turn state's evidence as to who had given us the dope to do 'em.
You're the only grouch I ever had, thank the Lord!
Next he branches off on Miller, and starts tellin' me what a deep and lastin' grouch he'd accumulated against his boss.
Say, honest, if I try to stick out the week I'll get to be a grouch nurser, like Piddie.
If old Grouch Gaylong isn't with us, we'll send him home in a baby carriage, that's what!
None for me, miss," from a terrible old grouch who had been particularly loud in his praise of Nature before Nature had shown what she really could do.
We have got over our grouch against Uncle Sam for firing us from West Point and now that he needs us, we are determined to show him we are ready to serve him in any capacity.
But next day she made an excuse to send for him, and actually laughed when he stepped briskly up to the bed, saluted smartly, and impudently asked her how her grouch was.
The complaining, unpleasant grouch is like a bear with a toothache.
Just at this time friends depart, for the grouch phase of the disease has started.
Miss Thorley nodded carelessly, but even a careless glance told her that there was not the sign of a grouch on Mrs. Schuneman's fat red face that day.
But don't tell me old Lady Grouch is so human as to have a canary.
I'm almost ready to think old grouch Wells did have a hand in this.
And, though I didn't know it then, he had a grouch against Hicks, who had once upon a time run him into Fort Walsh in irons on an unjustified suspicion of whisky-running.
Her last sentence froze the words that were all ready to slip off the end of my tongue, and made my grouch against MacRae crystallize into a feeling akin to anger.
Major Lessard, who happens to be the big chief in this neck of the woods, seems to have developed a sudden grouchagainst him.
Siwash College, the pride of six decades, mollycoddled by an old parody on a gorilla with a grouch against the solar system!
Malachi Scroggs was a triple extract of grouch who lived on the north side two miles away from college in a big white house with one of those old-fashioned dog-house affairs on top of it.
One of the grouches had recently visited the old friend, and, naturally, the other grouch wanted news of the Benedict.
A grouchy butcher, who had watched the price of porterhouse steak climb the ladder of fame, was deep in the throes of an unusually bad grouch when a would-be customer, eight years old, approached him and handed him a penny.
A person would think you had a husband to get a grouch every time you get reckless to the extent of a new waist.
