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Growling

noun

A gruff or angry utterance (suggestive of the growling of an animal).

The sound of growling (as made by animals). Synonym: growl.

Growl

verb

(past & past part. growled; pres. part. growling)

To utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds. Synonyms: grumble, rumble. "Stones grumbled down the cliff"

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"Growling" Quotes from Famous Books

... up the walk, and was forced to cut two of the finest cauliflowers intended for Cheeseman's adornment to-morrow. This turned his heart very sour again, and he shook his head, growling in self-commune: "You see if I don't do it, my young lady. You speaks again me, behind my back, and I writes again you, before your face; though, in course, I need not ...

— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore

... pulled open the door of her bedroom and fled up the stairs and fell in a heap in the corner beside her bed. There she sat waiting, out of breath.... Yes, his heavy shoes had found the steps; and, still growling, he entered the room. He felt the bed, lay down flat on his stomach and reached out with his arms; then he found her sitting sighing. She felt those two weedy arms grasp her and was caught in them as in an iron band. She moaned and screamed for help. His dirty, slimy mouth pressed her ...

— The Path of Life • Stijn Streuvels

... depended upon it. 'It is my duty, and I will.' That is her motto in life. How boring people are who do their duty!" drawled Vere languidly on the last afternoon, as poor Rachel left her to go back to the other invalid, who was no doubt growling like a bear in his den as he waited for her return. Everyone seemed to take Rachel's help for granted, and to think it superfluous to thank her. Even Will himself is far less attentive to her wants than my fiance shall be when I have one. I simply couldn't stand being treated like a favourite ...

— The Heart of Una Sackville • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... and the baby (they called him baby still, although he was nearly four) were playing menagerie in the corners of the dining-room. They had a tent made of the clothes-horse and some sheets, and the growling and roaring that went on inside was something terrific. It made no difference to the little mother, placidly sewing by the last rays of daylight at one of the western windows; but the noise grated on ...

— The Little Colonel's House Party • Annie Fellows Johnston

... the ape-man; but the replies, now vocal, were in a strange tongue, which resembled the chattering of monkeys mingled with the growling of some wild beast. ...

— Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs

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