Lexicographical Neighbors of Grubbling
Literary usage of Grubbling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Log-letters from "The Challenger" by George Campbell (1877)
"... living St. Simeon Stylites or this grubbling Honorius ? As I thus moralized
my donkey fell and stood on his head, which made me of necessity do likewise ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"Pr. Pm. ' He looked at the fish, then at the fiddle, still grubbling- in his
pockets.'—Spectator. ..."
3. Railroad Valuation by the Interstate Commerce Commission by Homer Bews Vanderblue (1920)
"... B. & A.—" the amount of clearing and grubbling which would be performed today .
. . would be considerably less than that which was done in connection ..."
4. The Philippines and the Far East by Homer Clyde Stuntz (1904)
"On page 221, Foreman tells in detail of,— "A money-grubbling parish priest—a
friar—who publicly announced raffles from the pulpit of the church from which ..."
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