Слово "grunt". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

She dropped her head, with her nose to the ground and directed toward a point near to her closely bunched feet, and around this point she circled several times; then, with a tired sigh that was almost a grunt, she curled her body in, relaxed her legs, and dropped down, her head toward the entrance.

  Mr Verloc, established in the corner of the sofa at the other end of the room, emitted two hearty grunts of assent.

They began leaping in the air, first one and then the other, whooping and grunting.

He grunted a negative, lifted the glass and drained its contents, then spoke in a tone of indifference.

Anselmo grunted.

Henry acknowledged receipt of the information with a grunt that slid into a snore as he drifted back into sleep.

Henry grunted, and began unlacing his mocassins.

She said the last words out loud, and the little thing grunted in reply (it had left off sneezing by this time).

  Angus MacWhirter only gave a grunt by way of thanks.

Henry grunted, and began unlacing his mocassins.

He went back to bed but didn't sleep for a long time. In spite of how lousy he felt in the morning, breakfast tasted good. After a moment's hesitation, he followed his customary bowl of cornflakes with scrambled eggs. He was grumpily washing out the pan when Cindy came downstairs in her robe. "Richard Morrison! You haven't eaten an egg for break-fast since Hector was a pup. Morrison grunted. He considered since Hector was a pup to be one of Cindy's stupider sayings, on a par with I should smile and kiss a pig. "Have you smoked yet?" she asked, pouring orange juice. "No." "You'll be back on them by noon," she proclaimed airily. "Lot of goddamn help you are!" he rasped, rounding on her. "You and anyone else who doesn't smoke, you all think ah, never mind." He expected her to be angry, but she was looking at him F with something like wonder. "You're really serious," she said. "You really are." "You bet I am. " You'll never know how serious. I hope. "Poor baby," she said, going to him. "You look like death warmed over. But I'm very proud." Morrison held her tightly.

Bill grunted his disagreement with the diagnosis, and lapsed into silence.