How To Use Gruffly In A Sentence
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The evidence she’d gathered at the beach had already arrived, delivered by a young tech who’d sheepishly entered the den of the legendary Lincoln Rhyme without a word and scurried about to deposit the bags and stacks of pictures as the criminalist gruffly directed.
The Stone Monkey
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“He’s behaved like a perfect peeg!” she said gruffly, pronouncing the word cochon as though she referred to Joan of Arc’s contemporary, Bishop Cauchon.
Within a Budding Grove
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Your choice to ignore your responsibilities and then sit around gruffly barking at passersby is just that, your choice.
Think Progress » Dick Morris: ‘Civil War Is Progress’ In Iraq
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'Nice bloke, Firenze,' he said gruffly 'but he don' know what he's talkin 'abou' on this.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Your new friend is just going to walk up to you, introduce itself rather gruffly, hand you a few forms to fill out, and move right on in.
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Rather shamefaced, he stood back and said gruffly, `Let her go, Lucas, a joke's a joke but we've gone far enough.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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`No,' he replied gruffly
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They spoke little for they were tired, but Sean could feel the gratitude of the men who sat beside him and before they rolled into their blankets Jan Paulus said gruffly, Thank you, kerel.,
When the Lion Feeds
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He took down the receiver with no undue haste and answered the call gruffly, but his bored expression changed rapidly as he listened.
The Shadow of the East
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Inspector Morse - Gruffly drinks beer and does crosswords in Oxford
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While yet we dread for the coming event, and the fight which would jar on the morning, behold the grandmother of sows, gruffly grunting right and left with muzzle which no ring may tame (not being matrimonial), hulks across between the two, moving all each side at once, and then all of the other side as if she were chined down the middle, and afraid of spilling the salt from her.
Lorna Doone
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Then, an off-the-cuff remark by a bookshop owner who gruffly suggested she should write something of her own changed the course of her life.
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The lady who was cooking came out and kind of gruffly asked James, who speaks no Spanish, if that was really what he wanted.
Part 15: El Camino de Santiago
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His lyrics are honest, unsparing, splenetic yet gruffly humorous.
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He touched his cap at the Deity's name, and called gruffly at his son:
Privy Seal His Last Venture
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Come in," Billiard called gruffly in response to her knock, though inwardly he was quaking with fear lest it might be the sheriff or Uncle
Tabitha's Vacation
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She came in, pushed the door to, stood close to my bed-side and said again gruffly, "What is it?
Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
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“And have chosen wrong subjects to practise your fooleries upon,” said the farther one, still more gruffly.
Quentin Durward
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j `Nothing to be grateful about," said the old man gruffly.
A WORM OF DOUBT
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He called gruffly into the silence of the house, and his speech held the surliness of his attitude.
Pardners
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Both sexes talked gruffly about needing to lean forward in the foxhole, meaning "to anticipate," and to break contact, meaning "to leave.
Peace is Hell
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Snotty young otter told us we'd find you here, " the other Percheron declared gruffly.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson
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A young man with close-cropped hair stuck his head out and said gruffly, ‘Mr. Blowfish will see you now.’
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j `Nothing to be grateful about," said the old man gruffly.
A WORM OF DOUBT
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‘Cleaning more than fifty rooms in twelve hours is harder than it seems,’ he replied gruffly.
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Doc knocked him back, expostulating gruffly, then tucked the sock firmly into a battered boot.
BEHINDLINGS
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‘Cut along now to bed,’ he added gruffly; ‘we'll have to be up like larks to-morrow.’
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They smiled, shrugged off our thanks, told us gruffly to keep up the work, and told us to come back sometime, anytime.
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I went up to the busy hawker and she asked me gruffly what I wanted.
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It's nice to have a Niece Gloriana, too," he answered gruffly, clearing his throat with much gusto; and as there seemed to be nothing further to say, the trio turned from the lonely pesthouse, and silently climbed the hill toward town.
Tabitha's Vacation
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He said her name gruffly, and then he met her eyes and could say nothing else.
Starchild Omnibus
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Be at ease, I can guide, persuade, supervise and urge he learns, but I won't gruffly is privative his happiness.
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Oh yes," he said gruffly, "_they're_ open -- they're _open_; though there ain't much going on out-of-doors, being the last night of the season.
The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance
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She paused and went no further, for a red-shirted river-driver with brass rings in his ears came close to them, and called gruffly for whiskey.
The Right of Way — Volume 01
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When I called back next day to cancel my idea of a meeting, he said gruffly: ‘Come to lunch Sunday, if you can’.
