1 Perhaps Zeena had failed to see the new doctor or had not liked his counsels: Ethan knew that in such cases the first person she met was likely to be held responsible for her grievance.
2 But nothing should come out; and happily for his side of the case, the dirty rags, however pieced together, could not, without considerable difficulty, be turned into a homogeneous grievance.
3 She simply left the brunt of the situation on her husband's hands, as if too absorbed in a grievance of her own to suspect that she might be the object of one herself.
4 He was the sort of man the bosses like to get hold of, the sort they make it a grievance they cannot get hold of.
5 The friend, with a grievance in his eye, went to the youth.
6 No, no, he obviously wasn't an Englishman: the wrong sort of flattish, pale face and bearing; and the wrong sort of grievance.
7 He had a grudge and a grievance: that was obvious to any true-born English gentleman, who would scorn to let such a thing appear blatant in his own demeanour.
8 "Barrymore considers that he has a grievance," he said.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson 9 The old well-established grievance of duty against will, parent against child, was the cause of all.
10 Neither of them gave full utterance to their sense of grievance, but they considered each other in the wrong, and tried on every pretext to prove this to one another.
11 My grievance is purely personal, and turns on two great misfortunes which have fallen upon my house.
12 He hung his grievances on her, as one hangs a coat on a hook, instinctively.
13 Mrs. Norris could not speak with any temper of such grievances, nor of the quantity of butter and eggs that were regularly consumed in the house.
14 There was one circumstance in the history of her grievances of particular irritation.
15 Mrs. Bennet had many grievances to relate, and much to complain of.