Lexicographical Neighbors of Gruffnesses
Literary usage of Gruffnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1887)
"... gruffnesses, comes out more attractively than might have been expected, without
much of gloss or varnish, which the customs and the flatteries of courts ..."
2. From Ponkapog to Pesth by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1888)
"... been blown up by a steam-boiler explosion on some previous trip on the river.
They played a very doleful tune ; full of unaccountable gruffnesses and ..."
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