"Growl" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that for some reason his friend had run away, and determined to wait for his breakfast no longer. So he went up to the place where the greyhound had been tethered and untied the rope. But just as he was about to spring on his back and give him a deadly bite, the jackal heard a low growl, which never proceeded from the throat of any sheep. Like a flash of lightning the jackal threw down the cord and was flying across the plain; but though his legs were long, the greyhound's legs were longer still, ...
— The Orange Fairy Book • Andrew Lang
... long head and mighty shoulders spread the shrubbery wide apart, jaws opening and lips curling back to lay great teeth bare, while another angry sound, half growl, half snort, only too clearly proclaimed that monster of the mountains, a ...
— The Lost City • Joseph E. Badger, Jr.
... followed his companion across the plank, there came dully from the hills the first low growl of the pent storm. The sound struck for him a strange contrast with the prattle he had ...
— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm
... begin our relations with a growl! Don't you know we have to keep the peace all summer?" laughed Julie, snapping her fingers ...
— Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... understanding of the obscure mind that had hitherto baffled her, for a further endeavour to break through the barrier existing between them. To speak, if only to a dog, was relief and she was too engrossed to notice the sound the poodle's quick ears caught directly. With a growl he wrenched his head free of her arm and, startled, she looked up expecting ...
— The Shadow of the East • E. M. Hull
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