Then he uttered a low
growl. Instantly a score of apes leaped to their feet.
Tarzan's mouth watered and a low
growl escaped his patrician lips.
"You haven't heard me
growl, or you wouldn't say that," declared the Woozy.
Jip, who was lying near taking a nap in the sun, began to
growl and talk in his sleep.
As we were thus conversing in a low tone while Old Barley's sustained
growl vibrated in the beam that crossed the ceiling, the room door opened, and a very pretty slight dark-eyed girl of twenty or so, came in with a basket in her hand: whom Herbert tenderly relieved of the basket, and presented blushing, as "Clara." She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service.
The thought made him lower his head and
growl and it worried him not a little--a bit, perhaps, because he was finding it difficult to forget that he was an Englishman when he wanted only to be an ape.
The voice of the Grand Gallipoot was partly a roar and partly a
growl. He mumbled his words badly and Guph had to listen carefully in order to understand him.
He had begun to romp with them in a feeble, awkward way, and even to squabble, his little throat vibrating with a queer rasping noise (the forerunner of the
growl), as he worked himself into a passion.
(Then the noise overhead began again, a snarling
growl and the voice of a human being together.
As he came his upper lip curled into a snarl, exposing his fighting fangs, and a deep
growl rumbled from his cavernous chest.
Still further, he was taught to differentiate between the bush noises and between the ways he
growled warnings to Nalasu.
At sight of the men the beasts looked up with menacing
growls, but Tarzan strode in among them, dragging the trembling Wagambi with him.