It had been unfortunately necessary to marry her in order to obtain her vast inheritance; and it was an additional grievance that she left no child behind her to give him a continued lien upon the estates.
She addressed herself to every member of the royal family in turn; and she notes as a special grievance in the petition she presently offered to the King, that "in the absence of clerkes, she hath wretyn l'res with her owne hand.
He thinks it never will be carried, and will be a standing grievance of no great weight.
Ned's acquaintance with Bill Swinton had long been a grievance to her, and her constant complainings as to his love for low company had been one of the afflictions to which Ned had long been accustomed.
Lucy's backwardness in music had long been a grievance with her mother, who, as she lay in bed and listened to the girl practicing below had fretted over the thought that she could obtain no good teacher for her in Marsden.
Forgetting both his grievance of the morning and his later anxiety, due to Persis' singular conduct, he gave himself up to cheerful anticipation.
Joel felt the sense of grievance which is the almost inevitable sequel to groundless fears.
This was a particular grievance of the father against the son: that the son brought no grist to the mill in the shape of new orders.
He seemed to have forgotten his deepgrievance against Edwin in the matter of cheque-signing.
He walked straight out, put on his hat, and went to the Bleakridge polling-station and voted Labour defiantly, as though with a personal grievanceagainst the polling-clerk.
Coke, who upon discovery of those matters exclaimed that a corrupt judge is the grievance of grievances.
Edward Coke was wholly in the right when he exclaimed that a corrupt judge was 'the grievance of grievances.
He seemed always in good humor with himself and everybody else, except in so far as his grievance was concerned, and always perfectly happy.
Victor Heron seemed to Minola about this time in a fair way to let his great grievancego by altogether.
She felt angry with him now and then for neglecting his own task, like another Hylas, to pick up every little blossom of alien grievance flung in his way.
The good-natured young man was quite content for the present to sink and even to forget his own grievance in presence of the grievances of his new acquaintance.
Dickson had a new grievance to store away in his rich remembrance, because he had been overlooked in the choice of prize masters to bring the two merchantmen into port.
Now that he had a real grievance his spirits seemed to rise.
Their principal grievance against us is that we freed their slaves, and they nurse this grievance with undying hatred.
The right and practice of petitioning Parliament against any existing grievance is well known to the people, and is held in viridi observantia.
Nay, more than this, unless a case of very strong grievance can be made out and established, it is difficult to prevail upon the men of the middle classes to lend their countenance to or attend public meetings for any political object.
They could, in fact, point to no practical grievance affecting life, liberty, or property, such as could only be remedied by a strong organic change.
Yet Clare was not aggressively efficient: indeed it was a grievance that she was so apparently casual, so gracefully indifferent.
Had one of the younger mistresses rebelled and carried her grievance to the higher court, Miss Vigers' eyes might have been opened; but as yet no one had challenged her self-assumed supremacy.
Friendly nations nursed an imaginary grievance against their neighbours, and those that had one brought it out, as a skeleton from a cupboard, and inspected it in public.
The younger Fletcher had come home evidently nursing a grievance at his heart; his eyes held a look of dogged resentment, and the hand in which he grasped the end of the linen dust-robe was closed in an almost convulsive grip.
If the Protestants ever become strong enough to win the day, it can only be at the expense of establishing a Catholic grievance so strong as to be exceedingly dangerous.
Be this as it may, the passage gave offence to a patriotic Swiss named Amstein, who aired his grievance in print and demanded a retraction.
To furnish the conspirators with a definite grievance Gianettino was made to violate the helpless Bertha, who was then provided with an avenger in the person of the young Bourgognino.
Therefore she thought that he ought to sit with her, and she would be conscious of a grievance if he did not.
And he detected in Lois, not for the first time, a grievance that Irene kept her, Lois, apart from the main current of her apparently gorgeous social career.
It is open for public inspection, and every traveller has the privilege of writing in it any grievance he may have suffered from inattention, incivility, or unwarrantable delay on the part of yemschiks or postmasters.
There was no thought of grievance or complaint in her mind, but only the earnest endeavor to satisfy, so far as she was able, all the calls of her little blind tyrants.
They were always willing to listen to those plausible spell-binders who gather around a public grievance like so many hungry vultures, and soon they became a grave menace to the safety of the state.
The people with the grievance tried hard to air it; there were ugly rushes, the excitement spread, and in the neighbourhood adjoining there was something very like a riot.
No matter what the grievance was; the world is very full of them, and too many of them are hard and stern, and old and deep, difficult to be removed.
One procession of the people with a grievance making for the Square, had been met by the police and turned aside.
But the authorities had decided that this particular grievance should not be aired in this particular way; they would permit no meeting to be held in Trafalgar Square.
It may, it probably will, take hours to drag your grievance out of you, and I don't see any use in wasting time at the start.
Have you any grievance in Dunrossness with regard to whales?
If you ask a fisherman if he has a grievance, he will be sure to try and find one for you; but I do not believe that the respectable part of my tenants find it to be any grievance their being obliged to fish to me.
The only grievance of which my tenants can complain is, that they are obliged to fish to me.
The only grievance which some of them have stated is, that they do not see the bills of sale, and that they are therefore not satisfied that they are fairly treated in settling.
There certainly are some men who make it grievance of it; but they are men who would not be satisfied if the thing were done in any other way.
Did you consider it a grievance to be prevented from settling with the men in the Custom House?
This, I will endeavour to show, is no grievance at all, but an advantage to the fishermen.
I don't mention that as giving you an idea that there is any grievance in the way of our not getting as good remuneration for our money in these shops as we do elsewhere, but to show the independence of the service.
No, but I have no doubt that what they said was quite correct; and perhaps there is a grievance there which ought to be remedied.
The first witness who came forward to speak of the obligation to deliver the fish to the landlord was Laurence Mail, who was not summoned, and his evidence shows how naturally this grievance is connected with the system of Truck.
And athirst for love,--something of a grievance to Fricka.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grievance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
