Lexicographical Neighbors of Grumpinesses
Literary usage of Grumpinesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"His little humours and grumpinesses were so droll that I was always laughing,"
says Edward Fitzgerald ; "he was never the same for twice running, ..."
2. Edward Fitzgerald by Arthur Christopher Benson (1905)
"His little humours and grumpinesses were so droll that I was always laughing :
and was often put in mind (strange to say) of my little unknown friend, ..."
3. Letters and Literary Remains of Edward FitzGerald by Edward FitzGerald (1889)
"His little humours and grumpinesses were so droll, that I was always laughing:
and was often put in mind (strange to say) of my little unknown friend, ..."
4. The Life of Edward FitzGerald by Thomas Wright (1904)
"Tennyson's ' little humours and grumpinesses ' provoked frequent laughter,
especially from FitzGerald, who, as Spedding said, ' loved to see a man in his ..."
5. Putnam's Magazine (1910)
"... when the habit of thinking aloud exposed those "little humors and grumpinesses,"
as Fitzgerald called them, which are usually concealed or controlled. ..."
6. Putnam's Magazine (1910)
"... when the habit of thinking aloud exposed those "little humors and grumpinesses,"
as Fitzgerald called them, which are usually concealed or controlled. ..."
7. Nineteenth Century Letters by Byron Johnson Rees (1919)
"His little humours and grumpinesses were so droll, that I was always laughing:
and was often put in mind (strange to say) of my little unknown friend, ..."
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