Слово "grunt". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

(Grunts)

She gave a grunt, certainly no audible thanks. The position of her head shifted very slightly. The doctor saw that she was now looking hard at Sarah.

By Hell, it is misery enough to see them in their mortal days taking off dirtied and uncomfortable clothes and splashing in hot water and giving little grunts of pleasure--stretching their eased limbs.

Ackley just sort of grunted when he said

"Hm . . ." the astonished lackey grunted.

Angrily he jerked a high- legged stool to the sink, got a knife, and sat down with an exhausted grunt.

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

'Oh, damn it all!' . . . I jumped out of the sledge, and I saw in the darkness a man running up to me, knee-deep in the snow. I put my arm round his shoulder, like this, and knocked the gun out of his hand. Then another one turned up; I fetched him a knock on the back of his head so that he grunted and flopped with his nose in the snow. I was a sturdy chap then, my fist was heavy; I disposed of two of them, and when I turned round Fyodor was sitting astride of a third.

Ippolit Matveyevich grunted happily.

He wouldn't answer him, but he didn't have guts enough not to at least grunt.

I grunted.

Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council—Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey—rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.