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"Gritty" Quotes from Famous Books

... the swarms of tormenting flies that buzzed about him, and waiting patiently for the desired water before he swallowed the dark brown unsavoury mass of crushed dates which, warm from his pocket and gritty with the sand that penetrated everything, was the only food available. Said was still busy among the throng of men and horses, but near him Omar sat plunged in gloomy silence, his melancholy eyes fixed on the distant hills. He had re-adjusted ...

— The Shadow of the East • E. M. Hull

... breathing through the mouth instead of the nose, and, particularly, sleeping with the mouth open, are habits which are very prejudicial to the teeth and gums. In this way the mouth forms a trap to catch the dust and gritty particles floating in the atmosphere, which soon mechanically injure the enamel of the ...

— The Ladies Book of Useful Information - Compiled from many sources • Anonymous

... gloomy eyes was the kitchen yard, a gray and gritty expanse, with never a tree or bush to shade it except the lilac hedge bounding it on the garden side, and one sickly peach tree growing at the corner of "the house." Three hens and one rooster were scratching about the flat stone at ...

— When Grandmamma Was New - The Story of a Virginia Childhood • Marion Harland

... rooms in the City The rags have been sent, and it's there That I'll burn them unopened and gritty Or, if (and it's little I care) I am whelmed in the wave, I shall laugh from my grave At the blow that I've dealt the banditti ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914 • Various

... managed to say, "take the kiddie; he's slipping off. I'm good for a minute longer." So they lifted Freddy into the launch, then poor unconscious Hal, and lastly Shag, exhausted but gritty and ...

— The Shagganappi • E. Pauline Johnson

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