When we grumble at delays, let us not forget what the Revolution has made us!
For shame, citizens; one does not grumble in the face of danger.
But the boy who does not grumble when he is told not to go out because it is raining and he has a cold, will not perhaps grumble either should he happen to find his dinner not at all nice.
That's all very well so long as you're young; but when it has got you, you'll pant and grumble like the rest of us.
No one to grumble to--ugh, how I should hate that!
On the whole, however, I should think I have more to be grateful for than to grumble at.
We have no great strength to boast of; but we are so unspeakably happy in all other respects that we cannot grumble at this tax on us as elderly mortals.
In this way I make myself contented under the incompleteness of our life without you, and I am determined not to grumble at my share of the loss which falls so sadly on Dr.
But, mark you this, only when everything is going smoothly, and there is nothing real to grumble about.
When I first began to walk up Manchester Avenue, my thought was, "There's nothing much to grumble at here.
The better to carry the deceit, Beatrix affected to grumble before the servants, and to be jealous that she was turned out of her chamber to make way for my lord.
Can't say I find much to grumble at myself," Sir Charles said cheerfully.
I shouldn't grumble at it, if I were you," he said carelessly.
The woman obeyed somewhat unwillingly, and in the village began to grumble to others about her enforced removal.
Her voice is ever set to music, a miracle to the people here, who only know how to groan and grumble at the best.
And you are always saying you like weeds, so why grumble at your lawns?
Very well, my dear," replied the Man of Wrath, "only do not grumble afterwards when you find it dull.
People grumble at State interference, but they forget what made it necessary.
It has certainly become too common a thing in England togrumble about our judges, and to say--especially when the costs are taxed and the bill is delivered--that the judge was biassed.
And when we grumble at our judges and say there is bias on the bench it is only our little way.
If you say any thing, or grumble about it, the sheriff will order you locked, up on the third story, and that's worse than death itself.
All day long," says the court officer, "they do nothing but grumble and grumble at being kept away from their business but when they get chosen on a case, they realize it does not do any good so they settle down to do what is right.
To grumble in the gizzard; to be secretly displeased.
Still, one may be allowed to have one's grumble and, after all, I think we are pretty sure of some stiff fighting, which makes up for everything.
Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!
He tortures me with torments worse than death, I haven't anything to grumble at!
The guide began now to grumble loudly at the slowness of Father Francis's mule, and to declare that he would not stay and risk his life for any mule in France or Arragon.
I am glad you find the old log useful," returned Mrs. Broderick, "so come and grumble as often as you like.
Why do you grumbleat your harvest--there is no ripening without sunshine?
And though Alwyn professed to grumble at the desertion, he was too busy stretching his canvas for the new picture to resent it.
Butturlin and the Russians grumble to themselves: "And you to take all the credit, as you did at Kunersdorf?
I thank the Lord, my health is good enough; and a very fool were I togrumble at every bit of discomfort.
We count it a light matter if we grumble when things go awry, and matters do seem as if they were bent on turning forth right as we would not have them.
They will go on, and among them not one will be found to grumble at the life before them.
It is warm, it is good, and there is nothing at all to grumble at.
Having carefully arranged his handkerchief over his face, to shield his eyes from the sun, he continued to grumble under cover of it: "A good pair of bath-pumps gone for nothing!
