grumbled
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Grumbled one critic: "Never before have Australians been asked to contemplate such vast ambiguities in their country and their souls."
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Grumbled the Chicago Tribune: "Less an exercise in statesmanship than in public relations."
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Grumbled an abashed minister: "I would have thought we could expect a more convenient question from a representative of Izvestia."
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Grumbled Reagan: "A challenger can't promise highways and hospitals."
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The poets of an older time," Grumbled Rossetti Jones one day, "Have used up every blessed rhyme And collared every thought sublime, Leaving us nothing new to say.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
