| The woman sighed gruffly and pushed her cart towards a store shop window, where several televisions sets were being displayed. |
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| Then, an off-the-cuff remark by a bookshop owner who gruffly suggested she should write something of her own changed the course of her life. |
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| They smiled, shrugged off our thanks, told us gruffly to keep up the work, and told us to come back sometime, anytime. |
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| Your new friend is just going to walk up to you, introduce itself rather gruffly, hand you a few forms to fill out, and move right on in. |
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| I went up to the busy hawker and she asked me gruffly what I wanted. |
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| His utterances range from the tortuously convoluted to the gruffly ineloquent. |
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| As Elmar Brok, chairman of the European Parliament's foreign-affairs committee gruffly sums up, they just need to do their homework. |
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| His lyrics are honest, unsparing, splenetic yet gruffly humorous. |
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| Once when she was making her way down to the poor with a basket full of bread, her parsimonious husband stopped her and asked gruffly what she was carrying under her cloak. |
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| She cast a speculative look upon her husband, silent and grum as if he had been thus gruffly carved out of wood. |
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| As we entered customs, an armed guard pointed at our skateboards and gruffly escorted us to a small, stuffy room, the walls of which were lined with wanted posters. |
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