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Letter "G" » grunts
«It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are -- and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.»
«(William Inge) handles symbolism rather like an Olympic weight lifter, raising it with agonizing care, brandishing it with a tiny grunt of triumph, then dropping it with a terrible clang»
Author: Benedict Nightingale
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«They were called grunts, and many of them, however grudgingly, were proud of the name. They were the infantrymen, the foot soldiers of the war.»
Author: Bernard Edelman
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foot soldier, foot soldiers, grudgingly, grunt, grunted, grunting, grunts, infantryman, infantrymen, proud of, Soldiers of the
«The safe that night looked like a soft one [and] the explosion made no more noise than a pig's grunt.»
«Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child»
«Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.»
«SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (_Pignoramus intolerabilis_) with an audible memory. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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accomplishing, audible, feat, grunt, grunts, hog, human ear, slang, utters
«Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them»
«When the Williams sisters play tennis, it gets pretty hot. When they start grunting, I'm in.»
«One chops the wood, the other does the grunting.»
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