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1. She could hear the horns and metal and glass twisting and grating and cracking against itself
2. The ship moved with a grating noise, the wail quavered with the heaves of the rope
3. His suggestive comments and the grating, dirty laugh got on everyone's nerves
4. ’ I said for the millionth time as a nasty grating noise resonates through the barge
5. his face and let out a rough edged, grating cackle
6. ’ She said, the whining tone grating on his ears
7. Years ago he had built a circular gravel driveway around his home and shed, no trees overlapped the area and he had installed wire grating right along the roof guttering
8. She was climbing up passed him and sneaking along the narrow grating before he found his hiding hole
9. The cuts were deep, the blade grating against bone as the man slashed each wrist
10. He pushed the pedal harder but the brakes only juddered in protest, finally giving up their unequal struggle with a long drawn out grating noise
11. It was obvious that the American's accent was grating on Uncle Hobart's nerves, so I tried to divert his attention before he had the chance to say something that would land us in trouble
12. The kerosene stove got going, and he closed the grating
13. a veritable sheet of blood, slowly pooling up and then making its way toward the sewer grating in the center of the lot
14. Their cab driver slowed as grating wheels scraped against the curb side
15. My only hope in this world,” said James through grating teeth
16. This sector is in prison without grating
17. mellifluous or it might be grating
18. The sun’s rays broke through the prison-like grating that coated the outside window, creating an intricate pattern that slowly danced across the floor as the minutes rolled by
19. metal grating lines below his boots rattled noisily as he stalked
20. barred grating on the door as he passed, he watched the armed
21. fanning out in strange patterns that the downpour was grating
22. They both pushed— and the lock gave way with a grating
23. gave way with a grating
24. the next morning to a grating call that I hadn’t heard it make
25. It was a sound of stone grating on stone and it now scraped along the steps towards them, getting louder all the time
26. "I have a bone to pick with you," Sally began, but her niece immediately said, "Here's Frankie!" and Sally conversed with the girl for several minutes, a pleasant enough task but extremely grating at this juncture
27. One could hear the grating screech of tank tracks better that way
28. When the stored interference pattern or grating is subsequently illumi-
29. is diffracted by the stored grating in such a way that the wave generated by
30. grating on the stair steps
31. dimly lit corridor, making his way along the floor grating to where Miriam had her office
32. grating, leading to and from a few processors that sat around the confines
33. I couldn’t even feel my teeth grating against each other
34. Then Harry identified the heavy rumbling, the harsh, grating sounds of metal on cobbled streets
35. Listen! you hear the grating roar
36. Her constant chatter in her high pitched squeak was grating with Siri’s nerves and he was determined that he was going to rid the world of this piece of filth
37. outside the door for the better part of an hour and it was seriously grating on me
38. Fingering his translator back in his ear, Joey looked at the captain from head to toe and said, “Don’t look at me! I didn’t have anything to do with this!” Joey looked around at people, some of who couldn’t meet his eyes and raised his voice to its grating tone, “I didn’t have a thing to do with any of this shit!”
39. The last time that Fernanda saw her, trying to keep up with the novice, the iron grating of the cloister had just closed behind her
40. Meme had indeed signed once she was already behind the iron grating and she did it with the same indifference with which she had allowed herself to be led away
41. Her liberal, moderate religious outlook had however taken little time before she had become thoroughly irritated and angered by the often intolerant and arrogant attitude of many Israeli Jews, with the misogyny of the ultra-orthodox men particularly grating on her nerves
42. It was a grating sound followed by a waft of
43. later the grating sound occurred again, then the new voices
44. hammering, clanks and grating sounds
45. The greed and pettiness of those priests and monks had been grating on Nancy for months, apart from bringing popular disrepute to their church for decades now
46. grating, a tool invented by 19th-century physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer to discern the
47. With a grating noise and an almost imperceptible, shush of air, the lid lifted off its seating and was placed on edge, on the floor
48. The first indication of buoyancy was the slight rocking of the vessel, followed by a grating and shrieking noise as the sub moved over the shingle
49. The beak shut hard on the steel cylinders causing the bony substance to shatter with a shriek of grating metal
50. There was also no arguing that the man had a passion for entertaining and expressing himself clearly, but there was just something a bit grating about his presence
51. In one beat, Dog was at work on removing the grating using his knife to remove the screws and pry loose the cover
52. We can’t leave that grating lying there
53. A grating noise began and a huge door opened to the left of the stage area
54. ing noise followed by a grating metal on metal sound and
55. She hit play again and Chauncey Tales' grating voice assaulted her ears once more
56. ability was dismal, so he gave up on this after just a few grating lines
57. The venefica that stood in the middle of the line stepped forward, the slight grating smile still upon her black lips, "I will ride with you, Legate
58. As if in answer to his unspoken question came a strange, grating voice
59. grating, mocking tone of voice had put him on edge from the very beginning
60. The Soothian managed to discharge the pistol twice into the air before it bled out enough and slumped to the metal grating
61. Come to think of it, isn't our conscience as a grating
62. He bunched his muscles and tugged the grating further and further out, and finally it tipped and fell in the dirt with a muffled thud
63. There were constant sounds of skittering ahead and behind and all around, and when he could see just a little from the faint light of a side grating he could make out the forms scrambling through their domain-by-possession
64. One of the creatures began to speak in a deep grating voice, and Stedder pressed a fist to his mouth, straining to concentrate on its words
65. She dragged out the chair, the screeching against the floor grating on Camilla’s frayed nerves
66. A grating unintelligible shout interrupted her arc of triumph against the twisted threads of Fate
67. Although, truthfully her red hair looked so shiny it was grating
68. Crouching down to peer through the grating, she saw the thick grey fabric of the constables trousers standing guard in the coal room beyond
69. At this point Johnny had more or less given up listening, but still Mary remained to push her head against the grating, desperately trying to comprehend the faint vibrations that might give her some clue to the extent of their activities known
70. Don swore; Melvin laughed aloud as the grating sounds resonated through the uninsulated floor
71. ” Natasha taunted her, the nasty little voice she remembered grating over her patience
72. Silas clutched Croak’s back foot in his talons, anchoring himself with his other foot around the grating, one wing hugging the railing support
73. Mix well (this is where grating
74. He laughed, a grating, humorless laugh
75. This is an invitation to Varmen toopen her window and sit or stand there behind the grating (reja), sothat the guard standing
76. Duval had observed how sometimes he idly slid the ring up and down the chain as if mesmerized by the silky, grating sound it made
77. Although, truthfully, her red hair looked so shiny it was grating
78. In the boat, slumped with pain and exhaustion he sat quietly listening to the grating of the bottom of the boat as it was pushed out into the lake
79. It seemed loud, grating and vibrated in his ears, he wanted to put his hands to them but they were still tied and sat in his lap
80. But it seemed to echo louder than the entire casino floor staff as they pulled back the levers, chambering a round with the steady yet unmistakable sliding noise followed by a grating metal on metal sound and the bolt sliding back into place
81. "You know bloody well where I've been, you sent me there," he responded immediately in the same grating tone
82. distended in the air and started grating its nail
83. of the crack feeling the rugged surface grating his skin
84. Kate opened the metal door with a grating squeak and Michael was served his second look at the international backpacking scene
85. but the inactivity was grating on his nerves
86. Grating sounds of heavy rain on the forest’s rooftop during the
87. I heard the noise of steel grating, as it would on a knife sheath as it was withdrawn from it, and I reacted
88. Before she could stand up, however, a loud, grating voice reached from across the thirty feet of sand and six tables making up Binky’s Peace and Love Beach Bar
89. Each of these stoppages was made at a doleful grating, by which any languishing good airs that were left uncorrupted, seemed to escape, and all spoilt and sickly vapours seemed to crawl in
90. With a menacing look at the turnkey he crawled upon the hearth, and, peering up the chimney, struck and prised at its sides with the crowbar, and worked at the iron grating across it
91. Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
92. The king will grant it very readily, and the knight will courteously kiss his hands for the favour done to him; and that night he will take leave of his lady the princess at the grating of the chamber where she sleeps, which looks upon a garden, and at which he has already many times conversed with her, the go-between and confidante in the matter being a damsel much trusted by the princess
93. He will sigh, she will swoon, the damsel will fetch water, much distressed because morning approaches, and for the honour of her lady he would not that they were discovered; at last the princess will come to herself and will present her white hands through the grating to the knight, who will kiss them a thousand and a thousand times, bathing them with his tears
94. for we always conversed, whenever good fortune and my ingenuity gave us the chance, with the greatest gaiety and cheerfulness, mingling tears, sighs, jealousies, doubts, or fears with our words; it was all on my part a eulogy of my good fortune that Heaven should have given her to me for my mistress; I glorified her beauty, I extolled her worth and her understanding; and she paid me back by praising in me what in her love for me she thought worthy of praise; and besides we had a hundred thousand trifles and doings of our neighbours and acquaintances to talk about, and the utmost extent of my boldness was to take, almost by force, one of her fair white hands and carry it to my lips, as well as the closeness of the low grating that separated us allowed me
95. I arrived unobserved, and left the mule on which I had come at the house of the worthy man who had brought me the letter, and fortune was pleased to be for once so kind that I found Luscinda at the grating that was the witness of our loves
96. At these signals and voice Don Quixote turned his head and saw by the light of the moon, which then was in its full splendour, that some one was calling to him from the hole in the wall, which seemed to him to be a window, and what is more, with a gilt grating, as rich castles, such as he believed the inn to be, ought to have; and it immediately suggested itself to his imagination that, as on the former occasion, the fair damsel, the daughter of the lady of the castle, overcome by love for him, was once more endeavouring to win his affections; and with this idea, not to show himself discourteous, or ungrateful, he turned Rocinante's head and approached the hole, and as he perceived the two wenches he said: