Word: grunt
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...doze you can imagine, dreaming, yet conscious that I am dreaming, when, after delivering a kick at the door that nearly breaks it in, the noisiest man in the class enters, slams the door, seizes me by the shoulder, and wants me to go to walk. I give a grunt which I think ought to be a sufficient hint that he is not wanted; but, entirely unabashed, he gives me a lecture on the subject of exercise, saying that there is nothing like a fast walk in hot weather to take off a man's extra flesh...
...these I had waded through, my chum giving, from time to time, a grunt of satisfaction or more frequently of mingled pity and disgust, when my eye fell upon a poem. "Shall I read you this?" I said. "O, skip the poetry!" was his answer. "But you might at least hear the title," said I. "Well, what is it," growled he. I said humbly, "Lines to a Fading Rose"; it begins...