Grievance

Examples

• It has always been a comfort to me to think that your mother was so simple and open that I knew every little grievance she had. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Had it taken place only once a year, it would have been a grievance. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I told you, the last time you were here with a grievance, that you had better turn about and come out of that. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Now it's clear to me,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'that you are one of those chaps who have always got a grievance. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Let the tax be light or heavy, uncertainty is always a great grievance. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The eighteenth century was a century of accumulating grievance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Susan too was a grievance. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The old well-established grievance of duty against will, parent against child, was the cause of all. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Beg your pardon, sir,' said Sam, when he had concluded, 'but wen I gets on this here grievance, I runs on like a new barrow with the wheel greased. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A most sensible grievance of those aggrieved times were the Forest Laws. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The sole grievance and alloy thus removed in the prospect of Harriet's welfare, she was really in danger of becoming too happy for security. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The Star Chamber, which in the time of Elizabeth had gained a good repute, became an intolerable grievance in the reign of this _learned monarch_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• As far as you are personally concerned, remarked Holmes, I do not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary league. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• So the grievances of Ali were avenged at last, and the Omayyad line passed out of history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• 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. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He had been still writing in his hiding-place, and still dwelling on his grievances, hour after hour. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Gradually they extended their purview of grievances to a criticism of all the affairs of the realm. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The breakfast passed off in silence, for each of the party was brooding over his, or her, own personal grievances. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• These are something like grievances, and make me think the weather most unseasonably close. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Mrs. Bennet had many grievances to relate, and much to complain of. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It was not in her nature to pour forth wishes or grievances. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Try if you can't forget politics, horses, prices in the City, and grievances at the club. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She saw that he wanted to engage her on the old subject of his grievances, and she was in no humour to indulge him. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It is true they trumped up grievances as a pretext, but they were only pretexts which can always be found when wanted. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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