His cousin bent over the dog and laid his hand upon his throat, with the result that there was a low growling snarl and the eyes opened to look up, but only to close again, and the bushy tale tapped the floor a few times.
For the dog had trotted softly to the door, and stood looking down at the narrow opening at the bottom, and was growling more deeply than before.
It had been advancing with a rapidly increasing step, growling all the way, and with an extremely savage aspect, but this movement of the enemy perplexed it.
The driver once again slapped on the brake, growling and reluctant, his anxious eyes searching the trail in both directions.
This unexpected occurrence awoke the lord of the tower, who, springing up, beheld the nurse lying on the ground, with the dog growling over her.
Growling and grumbling, the camp distributed itself--teamsters to feed and rebuild smudges, choppers and sawyers to the grindstone and filing-benches.
Now along the coping of stone walls she crawls and scrambles--and now ventures from the wood along the frequented high-road, heedless of danger from the front, so that she may escape the horrid growling in the rear.
I think the most discontented of travellers--old growling Smollett himself, if he could come from the grave in a fit of the gout--could not be discontented at this inn.
Henry was sniffing at Tom's heels and growling ominously, but he obeyed the incisive command of his master and retired to his position in front of her tent.
If you keep on growling the bear and my bull pup will think you are an animal and sail into you for keeps.
Vee-Vee and Warlock jumped up at once growling and barking, and ready to defend the family circle with their lives if there was any occasion, but seeing it was only Cracker, they ran to meet him, and give him a hearty welcome.
She ate it, feathers and all, except the tail and the wings, growling awfully all the time she was devouring it.
It was not ten seconds before the mother appeared, not fifteen yards ahead of us, charging down the trail looking as big as a horse and growling savagely.
Now you just quit your snarling and growling while I give you a chance to get out.
Then out of the end of the old log backed Bobby Coon, still growling and snarling and declaring he wouldn't move a step.
Right away Bowser discovered him, and growling savagely, tried to get at him.
Bobby Coon, as he climbed the tall tree with Buster Bear scrambling up after him and growling all the way.
The dogs, giving up the pursuit of rabbits, came barking and growling into sight and scampered up the grassy bank, covering the man and the boy.
From a street corner, where he stopped in the shadow of a tree, Sam could see them there, the wind swinging the lantern in Freedom's hand and the slender little old wife making a white blotch against the darkness.
And then saying nothing Sam turned and hurried off up the street, Freedom and his wife walked to the front gate and watched him go.
He led the way now subserviently enough, growling from time to time some explanation, which I took to be his method of apologizing.
And, with another bow, and a side look at Dix, who was now growling ominously, he let himself in at the door and I passed on forward.
Dix, with the hair up on his broad back and a wicked look in his eye, was growling his low, ominous bass that meant war.
His soul had grown calm since he had taken on himself the mission of replanting the Gospel in the hearts of the hungry and growling people of the Faubourgs.
I was told that another priest was coming, just as if we hadn't enough already, I couldn't help growling to myself.
The girl smiled, and then, brushing past Carthoris, she stepped swiftly toward the growling carnivore.
Quiet reigned, broken only by the growlingof the devouring banths.
There were the banths, still growling about their hideous feast.
Calots were growling out their savage gutturals, whining to be at the throats of the oncoming foemen.
Still growling and casting hungry glances back upon Jav, the banth at last permitted itself to be led away into the wood.
Shiminya the sorcerer lay dead in his muti kraal, and the horrible brute lay growling and snarling as it gorged itself to repletion upon his mangled body.
Three or four rangy young women in sweaters and jackets strove bravely to dispel the gloom of the night as it settled down upon the growling masculine majority.
They heard her prowling about the foot of the steps below, and growling horribly, but she made no attempt to pursue them farther, and presently her fierce notes of anger died away.
She stayed beside them, growling and roaring with rage and pain until the very building shook.
From behind the wolf mask came a low, growling chuckle.
His voice was soft and musical, quite unlike the growling hoarseness of the wolf with whom Inza had conversed at the pavilion.
By very unpleasant degrees, Vic stretched his hand towards that growling menace.
Then, as he pricked his ears, still growling like distant thunder: "Go tell Daddy Dan that Joan has to stay here a while.
She fell sprawling, head over heels, and when she looked up, there sat Bart upon his haunches above her, growling terribly, and gripping the end of the cloak.
In three days' time Nasta will rouse himself in his fastnesses like a lion in the evening, and his growling will be heard throughout the North.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "growling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
