Then she heard a long scraping of the heavy bolt, and at last the door opened grudgingly, and a young woman's voice asked, "Who is it?

It opened grudgingly to show a homely woman in a soiled apron.

Blair grudgingly opened his mouth, only half noticing that the golf ball seemed to be dripping with moisture.

Halloran left the Mercedes and walked back to the gate, Monk grudgingly opening it a fraction to allow him out.

As he brought his weight to bear on it, the door grudgingly opened downwards in a shower of plaster fragments.

Brutus watched with fascination as Artorath grudgingly opened his belt pouch to give back one of the coins he had won.

The Tellarite grumbled and grudgingly opened the case.

Maybe his charm was returning, because she grudgingly opened the door.

But she grudgingly opened the door and allowed them into a large foyer decorated with delicate French furniture and soft-hued landscape paintings.

The man grudgingly opened the door, after first unlocking a deadbolt lock and removing a door chain.