She picked herself up, looked ruefully at the injured limb, seized her book, and rushed away, limping slightly on one leg, and grousing hard.
Mavis, sitting on one of the lockers, and listening to the generalgrousing going on around her, shook herself impatiently.
Her announcement caused them all to look very sulky, and produced much grousing during 'break', but nobody thought of disputing it.
Later I heard this undertaking genius of a Tommy grousing and muttering to himself.
And yet, with all their grousing and criticism, and all their overwhelming desire to have it over with, every one of them was loyal and brave and a hard fighter.
The grousing of certain unwilling victims in VA made no difference at all to the examinations, which approached as relentlessly as the car of Juggernaut, and as unfailingly as the seasons.
The girls drilled in the gymnasium instead, grousing at the disappointment of missing their fixtures, and resigning themselves to a lower record than they had at first ventured to hope.
We withdrew, not without a lot of grousing among the boys, and when we reached our new point we were heavily bombarded; but no infantry attack followed, as we had been led to expect.
There was a good deal more grousing next morning when we moved forward again, because the Turks began to shell us heavily as we went along the road.
Under a hail of lead they worked sweating, grousing and cursing all the time.
Meredith, Robey and Simonds, the other members of the First Fifteen in the House, were all grousing and wondering how large a score the outhouses would run up in the Three Cock.
So long as there's a little intermittent grousing going on you can be quite sure of two things--that there's nothing wrong and that the men are in good spirits and content.
