Tired with the heat and my walk, I threw myself down on the grass in the shadow of the house, where I lay half-asleep enjoying a quiet rest, when I was startled by an unpleasant clamour, the jarring voice of a woman, who was trying by alternately scolding and using pet names to pacify a litter of grunting pigs on the farm.
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the gruntings of contented pigs
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Tired with the heat and my walk, I threw myself down on the grass in the shadow of the house, where I lay half-asleep enjoying a quiet rest, when I was startled by an unpleasant clamour, the jarring v
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In the evening I went out on safari again, at night I fell asleep hearing the grunting of the hippos.
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The sentence was primitive, scraping its knuckles on the floor and grunting with heavy threats.