"Grouch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seem such a grouch, but I don't like your grade of paper either. And why not enlarge the magazine to about 11" x 9" by 1/2", and charge 25 cents for your thoroughly good magazine, apart from the defects I ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various
... had wicked, little greenish-grey eyes, and their stare was uninviting as he fixed them on his quondam partner. "If you want to grouch, go ahead and grouch! We've been pretty good friends for a pretty good number of years, but I ain't a fool. Sure, it's mine now! I didn't ask you to employ Grenville, did I? I was satisfied to take any old piece of paper with your ...
— The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... table, as on any part of the house. If I find later that the winning plans include these things I shall believe that Henry Anderson is a mind reader, or that lost plans naturally gravitate to him. But there is no use to grouch further. I seem to be born a loser. Anyway, I haven't lost you and ...
— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter
... been decent," mused Tom, on his way back, after settling the score, "he could have shown us the way through his hay field, and we might have gotten into the Hall on time. The old grouch!" ...
— Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck • Allen Chapman
... she could go to sleep and forget them both, and the trains and the cars and the man in the park and Miss Stein, who still had against her a "grouch." If only she could forget even big, blundering Ursus, who wanted to treat her to oyster stews that he couldn't afford and take her to a dance hall next Sunday! And Sadie, too, who knew such strange and awful things about ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson
... Pete had some sort of a special grouch; I guess he was just beginning to get his snowshoes off after a fight ...
— Arizona Nights • Stewart Edward White
... he exclaimed; "this is no time to nurse a grouch. Perhaps they didn't get the telegram. I'll risk it. Is there a side door you ...
— A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice |
