groused

• “I "groused" too, like a good fellow, but had to go.”

  A Yankee in the Trenches

• “And so he "groused" and grumbled after the manner of Tommies the world over.”

  Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army

• “Through it all he "groused," but he applied himself earnestly to the task in hand and seriously complained only about his spoiled clothes.”

  The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula

• “The criticisms, curiously enough, came in a great many cases from the very men in the Towers 'ranks who had often "groused" most at the silliness of themselves being kept up to the mark in these matters.”

  Action Front

• “The vultures groused, ‘Just look at how tiny you are.’”

  Simon & Schuster: Dreamseller: The Calling

• “Then he groused that his wealthy friends are "paying lower tax rates than the people who are serving us the food.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Warren Buffett Is Wrong On Taxes

• ““If those two cared about their son, they would have come back long before now,” he groused.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Light at Winter’s End

• “For years, U.S. politicians and economists have groused about China's heavily undervalued currency.”

  The Wall Street Journal: What's the Yuan Worth?

• “After Davis groused about former President Bill Clinton's decision to campaign for Emanuel, Braun did the same – adding her own dig at Emanuel.”

  The Huffington Post: Carol Moseley Braun Emerges As Leading Black Candidate

• “Stephen had given “so many strange orders,” the colonel groused, “that it will be with great difficulty, if it is even possible, to extricate the officers and myself from the dilemma and trouble they have occasioned.””

  Simon & Schuster: George Washington’s First War

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