Example Sentences

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It was a wonderful sight, and I could have gnashed my teeth to see those loads of munitions going snugly off to the enemy.

From Greenmantle by Buchan, John

De Berniers would have gnashed his teeth, but that he had not yet recovered from the exertion of his previous cackle.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various

The doctor declared he must be suffering terrible agony all the time he was jesting and laughing; and he laughed when other people would have gnashed their teeth and cried aloud.

From Debts of Honor by Yolland, Arthur B. (Arthur Battishill)

I could have gnashed my teeth with anger as I stood aside uncovered, waiting for him to go.

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.

My solitude is solitude no more,130 But peopled with the Furies;—I have gnashed My teeth in darkness till returning morn, Then cursed myself till sunset;—I have prayed For madness as a blessing—'tis denied me.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley