At last thegrumblers began to declare that we should never make our port.
But the grumblers are of two sorts,--the healthful-toned and the whiners.
I doubt if these grumblers would be any better satisfied, or would turn out as well, in the tropics.
Half-a-dozen grumblers are enough to spoil a whole crew," he said.
One of the grumblers called the attention of the Grand Committee to the alarming fact that two Dutchmen were employed in the Ordnance department, and moved that the King should be humbly advised to dismiss them.
Even thegrumblers and mutineers were silent, owing to the ordeal they had gone through.
Bristow, who was one of the loudest and most persistentgrumblers among the recruits.
Of course, this was an extreme case, but there were many grumblers on the same ground; and some amusement arising out of their unreasoning disappointment.
These grumblers are invariably found the least efficient helpers in the school of life.
In the days before the change, a paternal Government directed the affairs of the little State, and thought it best to remove all possibility of strife by giving the grumblers no voice in public or economic matters.
Children begin by being good-natured little grumblers at every thing which goes wrong, simply from the outspokenness of their natures.
Grumblers are the only thing in this world that it is right to grumble at.
The race of grumblers would soon die out if all children were so trained that never, between the ages of five and twelve, did they utter a needless complaint without being gently reminded that it was foolish and disagreeable.
I have now heard so many exasperating variations of this same tune, that I should be disposed, had I the power, to take a deep and desperate revenge by granting the grumblers Home Rule on the spot.
These everlasting grumblers are a generation of vipers.
Some of the grumblers declared that we never should find it, and that we had much better go back to the ship.
Most of the party sided with Andrew on this as on other occasions, and the grumblers were silenced.
Doubters were convinced that he saw clearer than they, grumblers were satisfied, young men who jeered openly were beaten into submission with whatever weapon came most conveniently to hand.
They went straight to Cornelius Lynch's cabin, where the leading grumblers were assembled.
There were at first grumblers in the clans, who lamented the advent of anything that they were pleased to call new-fangled.
But even the grumblers got fewer and further between, and at last long peace and plenty reigned contentedly hand in hand from end to end of Glen Coila, and all around the loch that was at once the beauty and pride of our estate.
The gourmets of the Eclectic Club ceased to drink champagne for a while, and the grumblers gave committee and secretary a rest.
By April the grumblers grumbled again and no longer attempted to live as simply as soldiers under fire.
Grumblers from the cradle, kickers born, teamsters and choppers had looked forward to this last day in camp, swearing all that ten dollars a day would not hire them for an hour longer.
Fritz wanted something which he could claim as a success in order to cheer up his blockadedgrumblers at home, who were getting restive.
Little was expected, but if the unexpected did happen, then officers believed in their long-service ratings as profoundly as did these dear old grumblers in their leaders.
To the above description of our company, I ought, perhaps, to make an exception in favor of a few professional grumblers from our fatherland.
There were grumblers in our start from Egypt to a better position (some of them remain to this day), but these are not the spirits who would either lay foundations or rear structures.
You will be the only losers by it, but remember that it is amongst our own members that the real grumblers are found.
Mary thought of this passionately as she surveyed the unfinished building the grumblersdeclared such an unwarranted luxury, and remembered the noble fortune William had lavished on the public cause.
It is my poor opinion, oft repeated, that Your Majesty must stop for nothing, but take these grumblers with a firm hand and crush them.
Little by little the Queen learned the feelings of her people, and she soon published a response which must have made the grumblers feel ashamed.
Long before bedtime had come, every one of the twenty-seven thousand small people was safe in his own home, and the grumblers grumbled no more.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grumblers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
