| Irritated at the prospect of having to consider such a question, I called out grouchily. |
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| Pip and Lynn were wearing riding habits, Pip complaining grouchily about having to wear skirts, even split ones. |
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| At one point, Mrs. Brown told her husband to brush a stray lock of hair from his forehead, whereupon the prime minister muttered grouchily that he had not known he was going to have his picture taken. |
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