Growling

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

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• He led the way out, wagging his head and growling ominously. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Then Mrs. Boucher began in a low, growling tone, gathering in wildness as she went on: 'He _is_ his father's darling, I say. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Old Barley was growling and swearing when we repassed his door, with no appearance of having ceased or of meaning to cease. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• As the brutes, growling and foaming, rushed upon the almost defenseless women I turned my head that I might not see the horrid sight. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• While he thus spoke, the growling noise became a prolonged roar, and then died away. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• On his own small estate the growling old vagabond threw up his own mountain range, like an old volcano, and its geological formation was Dust. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He was growling again, and whistling a half-strangled whistle, being an inheritance from the bulldog side of his ancestry. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I had become aware of an alarming growling overhead, and had probably expressed the fact in my countenance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• And he went off growling to himself and still wondering and wondering over the unaccountable conduct of No. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• What ship comes sailing home from India, and what English lady is this, married to a growling old Scotch Croesus with great flaps of ears? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Hold your din,' cried Sikes, as the dog retreated under the bed: still growling angrily. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Having given in a hearty shake, he retired, growling, under a form; just escaping the pewter measure which Mr. Sikes levelled at his head. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Jos liked to hear it, but the Major used to go off growling at the appearance of this woman, with her twopenny gentility. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• And then the old gentleman went off, growling as before. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Then, getting on his unsteady legs, leaning heavily upon her, and growling, 'Hold still, can't you? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• With denunciations of bloodthirsty anti-national bodyguards, are heard dark growlings against a queenly name. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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