From another direction, a man grumbled at him to shut up.

"We already have too many to feed," grumbled the old man.

And so the orders to march closed up would stand, however much the men grumbled.

Often when a man grumbles he is in the process of saying yes to your request.

Several other men muttered and grumbled, but he was the one who spoke out loud.

"We've been doing that for more than twenty years," the man grumbled.

The men grumbled a bit, but disappeared into the mist.

"That's what the men here grumble about most," he told me.

The men grumbled even in front of him and he blamed me for not having control.