| 1. | 'Won't he growl at all, when he hears a fiddle playin. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. - from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
| 3. | Step and growl growl and go--that's the word with Captain Ahab. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 4. | He may cringe and growl, or cringe and not growl but he either beats or cringes. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 5. | But now and then there came a deep growl from some wild animal hidden among the trees. - from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum |
| 6. | Now," said Herbert, as the growl resounded in the beam once more, "he's down again on his back. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | Oz gave a low growl at this, but said, gruffly "If you indeed desire a heart, you must earn it.. - from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum |
| 8. | At that moment, a ferocious growl became audible. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | "They tell me," Shere Khan would say, "that at Council ye dare not look him between the eyes." And the young wolves would growl and bristle. - from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
| 10. | 'Well, then,' the Cat went on, 'you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. - from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
| 11. | The bear Sackerson growls in the pit near it, Paris garden. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 12. | With a careless motion, she flung to the ground, callous as a devil, the child that up to now she had clutched strenuously to her breast, growling over it as a dog growls over a bone. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 13. | Jane says she will devote her whole life to teaching, and never, never marry, because you are paid a salary for teaching, but a husband won't pay you anything, and growls if you ask for a share in the egg and butter money. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 14. | Scaring eavesdropping boots croppy bootsboy Bloom in the Ormond hallway heard the growls and roars of bravo, fat backslapping, their boots all treading, boots not the boots the boy. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |