Now if anyone opened it, there would be a gritting, grating noise like opening the door to a tomb.

His hands, rising, stopped as though braked by the gritting of his teeth.

An angry gritting came from the statue of the Golden Vulture.

You could almost hear the gritting of teeth in Washington this week, as the great bowed to the small and the small reluctantly nodded back.

With effort and the gritting of her teeth she managed to say only, "What if I don't want to follow the logical course of action?"

We've been inundated with calls from the public and our own patrols saying that yesterday, before the snow came down, there was little or no gritting."

(Bush does not judge this ardent posing, though the reader may experience a mild gritting of the teeth.)

There was a creak from the ladder, a gritting of its poles against the ledge, and presently a slight hissing noise.

The gritting of his teeth was audible; in his hand he held an old-fashioned revolver, that he seemed intent to raise.

Similarly, accurate winter road forecasting can save local authorities thousands of pounds in unnecessary gritting, Ms Campbell argues.

To Joe Cardona, who had not before heard the voice of the Golden Vulture, the gritting, metallic tones were nerve shattering.

Engineers from St Helens Council's highways department are now relying on computerised Met Office reports to help them plan the gritting of icy roads.

And as I stood there I heard the gritting of footsteps on the road-a slight sound but as loud in the silence as a grinding millstone.

One hears the thud of the horses' hooves, the gritting of sand between rail and wheel, the thunder and swish of breakers."

With much gritting of teeth but no verbal complaints, we moved slowly, quietly, carefully--and painfully-- through the vegetation in the direction Del had seen the stud go.

"True," replied the monarch, as if much relieved by the suggestion; "but, on the honor of a knight, I could have sworn that it was the gritting of this vagabond's teeth."

Stretching his catch on the floor the Chancellor hastened to reclose the door, while Uttobric stooped over the man who was struggling to sit up but subsided with a gritting of teeth.

-Ii Corinthians 12:7 [blank page] The dry squeal of brakes and the gritting of gravel under the tires of the bus drew Eliza Grey out of her romance paperback.

God Forbid forges the gritting, teeth-baring bile of American death metal together with the melodic overtones of the so-called "New Wave of Swedish Death Metal" promulgated by bands like In Flames, Arch Enemy, and the late, lam...

No woman with grit could give up when she had children.

"What were you and the other women looking for in the grit?"

The most common paper used for the first cut is 40 grit.

He'd looked into her eyes, seen the grit and the fear.

And his party alone had shown the grit to stand up to them.

He will need all the grit at his command to do that.

And they had to show some grit to stick it out.

Measuring the city's will and its grit is never easy.

This grit business is worth thinking about because it may turn out to be the key.

Again he tried to clear his eyes of grit and dust.

The air is full of grit pouring down from above.

The band knows how far away it is from grit.

"If he did it would just let in the grit."

"I think they're testing our grit to see what they can get away with."

Most of them made their mark with grit and determination.

But he called upon more than grit in his scouting work.

On the floor was a spill of light brown grit.

You Grits have been cold and hungry for many a year.

He worked for and then ran a number of Grit newspapers.

Was there any grit left over for this heavily used street?

I've always found the audience for urban grit to be rather small.

She is in pain from a piece of grit that has got into her eye.

"I wanted it to look pretty, but have a little more grit," he said.

But what gives tonight's game its grit are the coaches.

Even brought me a side of grits I didn't order.