"You're the grumpiest old curmudgeon I ever knew," said Gordon, interrupting my cogitations.
"A Top-Floor Idyl"
George van Schaick
But there was such a happy twinkle in his faded blue eyes, such goodness of heart in every wrinkle of the weather-beaten old face, that even the grumpiest people smiled a little when they met him, and everybody he spoke to stepped along a bit more cheerful, just because the hearty way he said "Good morning!"
"Georgina of the Rainbows"
Annie Fellows Johnston
And I own to being one of the grumpiest; though the lady in the horse-cloth dress yonder follows close upon my heels.
"Stories By English Authors: Germany"
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