1 The days seemed to grind by, with curious painfulness, yet nothing happened.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 7 2 She had to work the thing herself, grind her own coffee.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 14 3 Amid the droning of the wind there had come the stamping of a horse's hoofs, and the long grind of a wheel as it rasped against the curb.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ 4 One was so blinded by the light that he came straight for me, and I felt his bones grind under the blow of my fist.
5 It's this way, you see: I've had a pretty steady grind of it these last years, working up my social position.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 7 6 She was noticeable equally in the classroom grind and at dances, though out of the three hundred students of Blodgett, scores recited more accurately and dozens Bostoned more smoothly.
7 I'll never settle down and grind if I stay here.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV 8 but at that point he would stamp, or grind his teeth, and clench his fists.
Fathers and Children By Ivan TurgenevGet Context In CHAPTER XVII 9 When petitioners used to come for information to the table at which I sat, I used to grind my teeth at them, and felt intense enjoyment when I succeeded in making anybody unhappy.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor DostoevskyGet Context In PART 1: I 10 I might even be genuinely touched, though probably I should grind my teeth at myself afterwards and lie awake at night with shame for months after.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor DostoevskyGet Context In PART 1: I 11 I don't much wonder, poor dear, for you see other girls having splendid times, while you grind, grind, year in and year out.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER FIFTEEN 12 There were twelve miller-women whose business it was to grind wheat and barley which are the staff of life.
13 I forgot to mention that he would talk to himself sometimes, and grin, and clench his fist, and grind his teeth, and pull his hair in an unaccountable manner.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME 14 Please don't grind your teeth, Henry.
15 But the Brute said in his breast, "Till the mills I grind."
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In VIII