At this critical time, Miss Gripe called upon me, in a chariot bought with my money, and loaded with trinkets that I had, in my days of affluence, lavished on her.
The crimson hand expressed the ineludible gripe in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their visible frames return to dust.
Again: do we know that there is a possibility, on any terms, of unclasping the firm gripe of this little hand which was laid upon me before I came into the world?
He rushed towards her and seized her arm with a gripe that left the print of his fingers upon it.
I would have delayed a little, to enjoy my triumph, but I thought the pistol-shot might bring some one; so I tightened my gripe on his throat, and looked round for a weapon.
All at once I heard a stifled cry on my right, and, to my horror, I saw Clontarf dragged over the balustrade in the gripe of a giant, whom I guessed at once to be the man we had looked for so long.
And now to hear that those lands were getting into the inexorable gripe of Levy--tears of bitterness stood in his eyes.
He would have turned away, but was arrested by a gripe of steel.
It went through his other forearm, and his gripewith that loosened for a second or so--only for an instant, but that was enough.
They did not kill the grisly nor even loosen the gripe of that great forearm and claw upon the rock, but the next struggle of the bear brought him upon smooth stone, gently rounding.
They would jump upon a barrel, and from that upon a shelf, and then down they would fly into my face, ready to gripe me with their teeth.
The eager tiger, by overleaping, fell into the gripe of the alligator.
Their gripe takes place in the lateral or horizontal direction, and resembles that of scissors or shears.
A gripe with such digits is in itself the infliction of a wound.
There was scarcely an available security of any kind which he had not already turned into money, and now he began to feel, in downright earnest, the iron gripe of ruin closing upon him.
As he spoke, Ashwoode held the shoulder of the fellow with a gripe like that of a vice, and stooping over him, glared in his face with the aspect of a maniac.
The sight was too much for him, and he started up, as I have described, but only to feel the officer's gripe upon his arm.
He never deals in bribing gold, And mourns that justice should be sold: While others gripe and grind the poor, Sweet charity attends his door.
His hands disdain a golden bribe, And never gripe the poor; This man shall dwell with God on earth, And find his heaven secure.
A gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms.
Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands The royalties and rights of banished Hereford?
To gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch.
To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.
Why, in the very gripe O' the jaws of death's gigantic skull, do I Grin back his grin, make sport of my own pangs?
What foolishness Of dust or feather proved importunate And fell 'twixt thumb and finger, found them gripe To detriment of bulk and buoyancy.
They will gripe thee and gnaw thee as if thou hadst a nest of poisonous serpents in thy bowels (Job 20:14).
It will pinch and gripe the conscience, and make the heart of a gracious soul sick--(Mason).
Art thou beyond the ruffian gripe of Power, When Wilkes, prejudged, is sentenced to the Tower?
I owe Deliverance from the gripe of Woe; To thee I owe a mighty debt, Which Gratitude shall ne'er forget, Whilst Memory can her force employ, A large increase of every joy.
Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands The royalties and rights of banish'd Hereford?
Yet the cursed brat feared not to gripe her, But gnawed, for haste, her sides like viper.
Drawing fresh inspiration from his success, Gripe devoted another hour to an account of the early struggles in Kansas against these "mean whites.
A short time after supper, Tenacious Gripe appeared with the mayor of the city, who wished to make the acquaintance of the Professor.
Poor Gripe was the only person injured, suffering the fracture of a rib, which necessitated his return to Topeka, so that we did not see him again until some months afterward, when we met him on the Solomon.
And Gripe has never known how near he came to being the latter.
What particular selling charm lies concealed in this announcement even Gripe could not tell.
Muggs asked Gripeif the American Indian was hostile to all nationalities alike, or simply to those who robbed him of his hunting-grounds.
Mr. Colon asked Tenacious Gripe to explain the condition of the Native Americans in Kansas.
The whole fabric of Kansas material which Gripe wove for us that evening was figured all over with battles, and murders, and tar-and-feather diversions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gripe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
