One fine day there was trouble with the gasoline supply and one of the faculty members known as Old Grubby descended into the pit to investigate matters.
History has it that at the end of that term Old Grubby resigned and took himself to distant fields where his precious secret was not known.
For many years Old Grubby had managed to deceive the sharpest eyes in his classes and never had there been the faintest of doubts expressed as to the naturalness of his beautiful dark brown locks.
Those grubby little children in the Square would, she knew, have been "there" in a moment.
Well, I do," he assured me, ruffling my hair with his grubby paw.
And in a few minutes he went flying back to town, and I sought my dear husband, where he was busy digging in the vegetable garden, and flung myself weeping into his grubby arms.
With an extremelygrubby handkerchief he wiped them away, and kissed me and comforted me.
Instead therefore of grubby blackguards as saints we have grubby blackguards as devils.
I took some money out of my pocket, and selecting a ten-shilling piece placed it in his grubby but not unwilling palm.
It does seem so strange to think that he was that little boy with the black grubby face that Clo's carriage stopped for in the street.
She plunged hergrubby hands into her hair, and wrinkled up her face in thought; then she caught at my hand again, and whispered a startling suggestion.
I felt her coarsened grubby little hand gripping mine; slowly she drew me back away from the door.
I say might have, because Sarah and I found it difficult to disassociate her from the hard, grubby innocence in which our acquaintance had begun.
And look--" They stopped dead while Mike put a grubbyforefinger on a mark on Chris's jaw.
He pulled out an evil-smelling clay pipe and stuffed it with tobacco, tamping it down with onegrubby forefinger, and when it was well lit, pointed the stem at Chris by way of emphasis.
Michael maintained somewhat indignantly that all the boys at Randell's were like him, for he was proud that by being grubby and inky no boy could detect in him any inclination to differentiate himself from the mass.
He will find a lot of grubby and unsoothing stretches too, extensive in places, and even in the pleasant streams troubles exist that are invisible to the eye.
They contemplated their grubby little paws with great equanimity.
He did not often have to resort to corporal chastisement, though he had once given Pickle a sound caning for insubordination, and Puck had had two or three good cuts across his grubby little hand.
And now, in this grubby penny-picking England, he saw his boots being worn-down at the heel, and was afraid of being stranded without cash even for a railway ticket.
While the pictures flickered and the audience gave shouts and some grubby boy called "Chot-let, penny a bar!
But you have missed what to me is the outstanding feature of the whole affair, that which justifies to my mind the whole rather grubby business.
You are too simple a soul for this rather grubby world.
No more grubby humbugging, and no more Mitcham Mews.
It contained only a brief description of his room, the grubby ceiling, the sacks on which he lay, the peeling paper on the walls, the cracked window stuffed with rags.
I drove as fast as I could to the grubby hotel, where I found the poor fellow still restlessly pacing the room, and still smoking cigarette after cigarette.
The warning hoot of a motor-horn sent them scuttling to the side of the road, and, as Sandy smilingly watched the grubby little crowd's hasty flight for safety, a big green car shot by and was swiftly lost to sight in a cloud of whirling dust.
Fuzzy was on his feet in a moment and held out his grubby hands: "Shall I pull you up?
Why does Grubby Gopher have pockets in his cheeks?
Since then he has seen Grubby several times, but Grubby is never what you would call neighborly, and Peter never has felt and never will feel really acquainted with him.
The one thing was the discovery that Grubby has the biggest pockets in his cheeks that Peter has ever seen.
Of course Grubby got those pockets from his father, and his father got them from his father, and so on way back to the first Gopher.
But for one thing Peter would have thought Grubby Gopher the most uninteresting fellow he ever had met.
When it is ready it knows somehow, and the ugly, grubby thing climbs up out of the water on a flag or a bulrush, and bursts open its back.
Even from the rear, it is evident that Grubby is a person of no authority, so Mack dismisses him, temporarily, and warms his hands over the radiator.
If you really believe you have a penchant for sturdy and rather grubby worthiness unadorned you are mistaken.
And the boy had scrambled to his feet to extend a grubby paw.
They made their way through a swarm ofgrubby children, and entered the porch.
An occasional group of somewhat grubby children, generally accompanied by an elder sister and a baby in a perambulator, now and again occupied a seat.
I suppose the ancestral males have competed for the ancestral females ever since they were both some sort of grubby little reptile.
I endued hergrubby disorder with a sinister and magnificent quality of intention.
In the other she grasped a rather grubby and bulgy envelope.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grubby" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
