She did repay it, because she had no desires towards grubbiness or rebellion, or any wildnesses whatever.
"The Golden Scarecrow"
Hugh Walpole
I'm afraid I shall never make a detective of you," he shook his head sorrowfully at the smiling Mansus who had been in the police force when T. X. was a small boy at school, "you are neither Wise nor Wily; you combine the innocence of a Baby with the grubbiness of a County Parson-you ought to be in the choir."
"The Clue of the Twisted Candle"
Edgar Wallace
It was M.D. who sent me there by scolding me into realization of my grubbiness four years ago; I want to have my honeymoon there.
"Jane Journeys On"
Ruth Comfort Mitchell