Gnashing

Examples

• Slackbridge jumped up and stood beside him, gnashing and tearing. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• They danced to the popular Revolution song, keeping a ferocious time that was like a gnashing of teeth in unison. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He's a cursed white-blooded pedantic coxcomb, said Will, with gnashing impetuosity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• So we all rode down to Magdala, while the gnashing of teeth waxed and waned by turns, and harsh words troubled the holy calm of Galilee. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Instantly there was wailing and gnashing of teeth in the camp. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The feelings of kindness and gentleness, which I had entertained but a few moments before, gave place to hellish rage and gnashing of teeth. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Thus Slackbridge; gnashing and perspiring after a prodigious sort. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

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