grouty

Been quite 'grouty' all the vacation, 'black as Erebus.'

Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans Sherwin Cody

"Ho, ho, you feel kind of grouty, eh?" said the blacksmith.

The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus Horatio Alger 1865

Carina Chocano in the Los Angeles Times: "For all its sly appraisals, grouty surfaces and hard-luck situations, The Italian is underneath it all a fairy-tale, though the thought doesn't crystallize until later."

GreenCine Daily: The Italian. 2007

Waltham, -- exactly whereabout in Waltham he did not know, but, of course, he could easily find out, -- and, without exciting the grouty old salt's suspicions of false play, make sure of the cotton at his own price.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

Frank, who seemed to be getting his harness into a worse snarl, in his grouty attempts to get it out of one.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

The postmaster was a grouty old store-keeper who, through political influence, retained his position in spite of the efforts of the town's-folk to oust him.

Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin

And you moped about with a short draw in your chist, and seemed bound to be a grouty old man in the chimney corner that could niver lift a stroke for your childer, ah 'you didn't see the good luck, you know, Tim -- but when the prisident sent the bran new cow with a card tied to one horn, an' Connor read it when he came home from school: '_For Tim

Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories M. T. W.

Richard H. Dana wrote, confidentially, that "Seward was awful grouty."

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

"I often notice that the portrait of grouty old Biagio attracts more attention than any other of the nearly three hundred figures in the picture."

Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters Deristhe L. Hoyt

Captain Grant, beginning to believe that he should, after all, sell a little above the bottom of the market, took his leave for his home among the Waltham hills, a little less grouty than when he entered.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various