growlery

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The growlery is the best-used room in the house.

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  • At first it was so dark that he couldn't make out anything, but in a little while he could see something big and black and shaggy coming toward him, and a grillery-growlery voice called out Who's there? —  Uncle Wiggily's Travels
  • But the rabbit was ready for him and ran down the hill and the wolf ran after him, howling at the top of his grillery-growlery voice, for he was very hungry My! —  Uncle Wiggily's Travels
  • The growlery is the best-used room in the house. —  Bleak House
  • Finally, before we parted, I gave them my promise to speak to their cousin John to- morrow So, when to-morrow came, I went to my guardian after breakfast, in the room that was our town-substitute for the growlery, and told him that I had it in trust to tell him something Well, little woman," said he, shutting up his book, "if you have accepted the trust, there can be no harm in it I hope not, guardian," said I. —  Bleak House
  • Mr. Jarndyce then withdrawing into the temporary growlery, Miss Jellyby opened a conversation with her usual abruptness We are going on just as bad as ever in Thavies Inn," said she. —  Bleak House
 

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