There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men …

J. R. R. Tolkien
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There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground and eye to eye with a young hobbit, legs well apart, bristling with wrath, was one beyond their experience. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Lord of the Rings: One Volume, p.454, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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