grumbler

Example Sentences

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And though Father Grumbler did look, it was quite true that none was to be seen.

From The Brown Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew

She lost interest in the "Grumbler," and I am afraid her mind wandered as she read aloud.

From A Little Girl of Long Ago by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

Father Grumbler felt quite frightened at the torrent, but at last he remembered what the Holy Man had told him, and cried at the top of his voice: 'Enough! enough!

From The Brown Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew

Suddenly a few jaunting-cars came flying down the hill like highway comets, and the Grumbler came up again, in time to find that we were only a hundred yards from shore.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various

‘It is I, Holy Man, Father Grumbler, you know, who has as many children as sparrows in the garden.’

From The Brown Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew