When in the wee small hours, he sought his room, he asked her grouchily if she had slept, or if he could do anything for her.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
"You'd better get another novel from the cook and find out," I said grouchily.
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906"
Lucy Maud Montgomery
A rattle of musketry tore through the evening air-a muzzle-loading cannon spoke grouchily; then all was still.
"Dan Merrithew"
Lawrence Perry