His utterances range from the tortuously convoluted to the gruffly ineloquent. |
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. |
I went up to the busy hawker and she asked me gruffly what I wanted. |
The woman sighed gruffly and pushed her cart towards a store shop window, where several televisions sets were being displayed. |
She cast a speculative look upon her husband, silent and grum as if he had been thus gruffly carved out of wood. |
I know that,' replied the coachman gruffly, as he banged the door. |