Marta rose but Peredonov grufflystopped her: "Sit still, I don't want them.
Peredonov laughed gruffly but boisterously as he looked at his naked companion.
The soldiers laughed gruffly at his joke, bad as it was; and this made him attempt one or two others of a similar character.
Put the youngsters in there," he said gruffly to his assistants.
She walked close to him and said something in a low tone to him, at which he answered, though less gruffly than before, that it was "no use.
The ticket-seller had him repeat the name and then gruffly told him to see the company manager.
At the station in Tarrytown he said "Good-night" very grufflyand hurried off to jump into the only cab at the platform.
Sure enough, the grizzled doorman, poking his head out, gruffly informed him that no one was allowed "back" without an order from the manager.
No; that's all far-fetched and speculative," gruffly said Ferris.
His blood-shot eyes told of a vigil of mental suffering, and he dared say nothing as he gruffly bowed when Mr. Somers told him of Robert Wade's continued illness.
And again he gruffly intoned one of those Spanish coplas of which he seemed to have no less a store than Grandfather himself.
He varied very much in his manner of receiving her inquiries, replying to some promptly enough, and gruffly refusing, in the plainest terms, to give a word of answer to others.
Zack tried to expostulate again, but Mat interrupted him more gruffly than ever.
Mat gruffly repudiated the slightest intention of deceiving their guest as to the strength of the liquor he had drunk.
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 she was of assistance.
The shambling barn man, summoned gruffly by McAlpin, hesitated as he appeared at the office door and seemed to regard the situation with suspicion.
De Spain, following the chosen policy, called gruffly to the cabin inmate.
The hunter admitted gruffly that he had heard a horse's hoof recently on the bridge.
He explained grufflythat the requisition papers with which he was provided were good only in Colorado, and that it was simpler to wait than to go through all the red tape of having them reissued for Arizona.
Four days' journey," answered the man gruffly through his beard, looking the landlord in the eyes.
Rosalie has more than usual sense for her sex," gruffly but kindly answered the Seigneur, a look of friendliness in his eyes.
Just then the wires started up, and he gruffly told me to sit down and go to work and our conversation ceased.
He shoved it up, stared at me and gruffly said, "Well!
He came over to my desk and gruffly asked, "What time is there a passenger train east to-night?
He was gruffly reminded by the Judge that the witnesses were not his, that he must not attempt to draw any fresh stories from them, that he might only examine them on the facts which they had stated to the District Attorney.
The Judge polled the jury, glaring fiercely at each man as his name was called, but one after another the men arose and answered gruffly for acquittal.
I was giving my order, when the steward came forward and gruffly said: "You are in the wrong room.
In a moment all the events of the unlucky morning came back to her, and hisgruffly unfavourable opinion.
Joshua never liked saying goodbye, and did it so gruffly that it might have sounded sulky to the ear of a stranger, but Lilac knew better.
Will he turn gruffly away from that penniless, Tom Thumb audience, or will he give them a gratuitous tune?
Rollitt motioned him grufflyto lay them down on the table and depart-- which he did gladly.
Gruffly as the man spoke, he evidently regarded the two young gentlemen as persons of some distinction, and lingered a moment longer to ask another question.
Hugh drew his sleeve across his lips, andgruffly answered yes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gruffly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: abruptly; curtly; harshly; shortly
