Word: growls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peculiar sound. Looking up he beheld an enormous reptilian beast close ahead of him. Big Jim snatched up some rocks, slung them at the creature. It lashed its tail and charged, uttering a roar which sounded to Big Jim like the mingled bark of a dog and the growl of a lion...
...Your Highness!" When Beethoven played and Goethe's eyes filled with tears, Beethoven "lectured him sharply on his sentimentality." Afterwards Goethe seldom mentioned Beethoven, but sometimes he had his music played. But the music scared him, he never really liked it. He would sit iri a corner and growl: "It is stupendous, absolutely mad. It makes me almost fear that the house will collapse. And supposing the whole of mankind played it at once...
...application of ornithological precepts to the realties of a big game hunt is at best a futile, at worst a fatal procedure. In India, Ghandi has salted the lion's tall and has been rewarded with a growl which bodes ill for the experiment. At the outset the novelty of his methods so perplexed an administration habituated to gestures of a more conventional nature that the situation developed into a diplomatic sparring match of considerable entertainment to spectators with a taste for intrigue of a musical comedy variety...
...Rumania. His military chauffeur, his gold-frogged footman, his glistening, beak-nosed Renault limousine completed the splendiferous translation of M. Jean Herbette from the French Embassy to the Soviet Foreign Office. There he was angrily awaited by a plump, loosely-clad Russian, genial among friends but well able to growl and play the bear...