Simply by declining to vacate this cage when asked, Blanco can trigger “standard extraction protocol,” and a team of guards gruntingly straps itself into vests and helmets. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Then he turned and looked at her, his new wife, just waking from slumbering beside him in the overland sleeper, as the pullcar rattled gruntingly southward. ❋ George R. R. Martin (2010)
I will leave you with a few paragraphs from my talk, which casts the choice as doing the right thing willingly or gruntingly: ❋ Unknown (2010)
In anticipation of a shiny new bookcase and the dislocation of my desk, my SO and I were gruntingly shifting the God-awful 1950s dresser his sainted grandmother had seen fit to bequeath to us. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Murray, meanwhile, has been conspicuously ungreeted by my grandparents during all of the helloing, being only gruntingly acknowledged. ❋ Coupland, Douglas (1992)
But Jimmy gruntingly got down on his knees and retrieved the instrument from its hiding place under a chair. ❋ Allen Chapman (N/A)
Poppsy and Pee-Wee had been peevish and disdainful of each other's society, and Iroquois Annie had gruntingly intimated that she was about fed up on trekking the floor with wailing infants. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
The beaver man gruntingly climbed aboard the Ranger's horse, and we all set out. ❋ Unknown (1911)
For many seconds that seemed like minutes David stood where she had left him, while Nepapinas rose gruntingly to his feet, and gathered up his belongings, and hobbled sullenly to the bateau door and out. ❋ James Oliver Curwood (1903)
Amid the hanging silence -- like a portent it overhung him -- he raised the strange weapon and brought it gruntingly down with all the strength of his stout muscles. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)
Rushing thither, we behold the fair-headed peasant seated on the prostrate form of the young fellow from Penza, and methodically, gruntingly delivering blow after blow upon the young fellow's ears with his ponderous fists, while counting the blows as he does so. ❋ Maksim Gorky (1902)
Inspired by A Streetcar Named Desire, it gruntingly brings to life that Tennessee Williams world where the strong are driven to crush the weak, because weakness feels like a mockery of something in themselves they cannot face. ❋ Clifford Bishop (2011)
Sick sick sicko creepy stuff and the marginally human likes of the BARRY25s have come forward to gruntingly acknowledge that they have taken the bait set for them. ❋ John Nichols (2010)
Last night, watching OPB, we watched McCain gruntingly force out an endorsement of Ol ' ❋ Unknown (2009)
