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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
gripe .
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Examples
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Therefore, everyman, look to that last end that is thy death and the dust that gripeth on every man that is born of woman for as he came naked forth from his mother's womb so naked shall he wend him at the last for to go as he came.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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But ever he gripeth and gathereth, and he toileth hour by hour,
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865
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But ever he gripeth and gathereth, and he toileth hour by hour,
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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O that he that gripeth and grindeth the face of the poor, would take notice of these two scriptures!
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658
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Therefore, everyman, look to that last end that is thy death and the dust that gripeth on every man that is born of woman for as he came naked forth from his mother’s womb so naked shall he wend him at the last for to go as he came.
Ulysses 2003
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