Grutch

I'll find another way to make her quiet; or she shall have but very small Allowance: She tells me, Grief will kill her very shortly: I wish it wou'd, I shou'dn't grutch the Charges of giving her a Coffin and a Grave. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Why therefore should you grutch so sore as my welfare: ❋ George Puttenham (N/A)

Ain't he all I've got in the wide world and you grutch me that? ❋ Honor�� Morrow (1910)

But I am a man who may grutch and grumble, but when I have set my face to do a thing I will not turn my back upon it until it be done. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1902)

"Bill has an awful grutch agin preachers," said Mrs. Buttles, as she wiped her hands on her apron. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)

"That's right," said the cow boss; "I'd hate to have him get a grutch agin me." ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)

"Dad has an awful grutch agin preachers," said Mrs. Bacon, as she wiped her hands on her apron. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)

Yet to give thee a piece of gold I do it not grutch; ❋ William Carew Hazlitt (1873)

They sponge upon the Blessings of a warm Sun and a fruitful Soil, and almost grutch the Pains of gathering in the Bounties of the Earth. ❋ Unknown (1856)

I wouldn't a be meant to be thoft to put in a word for meself, by no manner of account; no, no; far be it from me; but in other partikillers, if so be that it wus me meself, I shouldn't a grutch her kinkdums. ❋ Thomas Holcroft (1777)

They spunge upon the Blessings of a warm Sun, and a fruitful Soil, and almost grutch the Pains of gathering in the Bounties of the Earth. ❋ Unknown (1722)

Why therefore should you grutch so sore at my welfare: ❋ Unknown (1569)

Why dost thou grutch him Heaven, such toile hath had, ❋ Unknown (1792)

She said spill them all, so there’d be none left to fardle a a grutch, a grouch. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

-- gien sae it be sae -- deid an 'gane as he is -- a grutch yet, for passin' sic an offspring upo 'her, an' syne no merryin 'her efter an' a ', an' the ro'd clear o 'baith' at stude atween them. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)