ground out

“PATIENCE … The word sounded as though it had been ground out through shards of broken glass … IS A VIRTUE!”

Blood Lines

“‘Will you just stop?’ he ground out frustratedly, grasping her shoulders to shake her slightly, her hair a silken tumble about her shoulders.”

Pregnant by the Millionaire

“Richard killed his two boar piglets, Nat Lucas two geese, George Guest three fat ducks, Ed Risby four chickens, and Aaron Davis baked full wheaten bread from flour ground out of grain all of them had grown surplus to Government requirements.”

Simon & Schuster: Morgan’s Run

“Local labor could not keep up with the “regular celerity” of the process—wage-work was still generally despised, and some capitalists found their new-built factories burned to the ground out of sheer blind hatred.”

Simon & Schuster: The Worldly Philosophers

“They were going to put her mother in the ground out by Mezentius House, and the alternative had been putting her in the river.”

Simon & Schuster: The Demons Covenant

“The two-ship element, led by Crab three, had become understandably confused during the wild gyrations that had occurred and initially thought that Crab one had struck the ground out of his wild porpoise.”

Thud Ridge

“He went back to his undergraduate days and saw himself drinking coffee in a shabby teashop in a Cambridge back street where, behind a thin green curtain, an appalling gramophone ground out the plummy mouthings of a tenth-rate ballad singer.”

The Fashion in Shrouds

“Staunton's rich, deep voice ground out of the machine, sternly moralizing in a manner demoralizing to the audience.”

TWO GOLD BRICKS