All 10 Uses of
grindstone
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Not you!" and throwing off other sarcastic sparks from the whirling grindstone of his indignation, Mr. Cruncher betook himself to his boot-cleaning and his general preparation for business.†
Chpt 2.1
- II The Grindstone.†
Chpt 3.2 *
- Against two of the pillars were fastened two great flaring flambeaux, and in the light of these, standing out in the open air, was a large grindstone: a roughly mounted thing which appeared to have hurriedly been brought there from some neighbouring smithy, or other workshop.†
Chpt 3.2
- The people in possession of the house had let them in at the gate, and they had rushed in to work at the grindstone; it had evidently been set up there for their purpose, as in a convenient and retired spot.†
Chpt 3.2
- The grindstone had a double handle, and, turning at it madly were two men, whose faces, as their long hair flapped back when the whirlings of the grindstone brought their faces up, were more horrible and cruel than the visages of the wildest savages in their most barbarous disguise.†
Chpt 3.2
- The grindstone had a double handle, and, turning at it madly were two men, whose faces, as their long hair flapped back when the whirlings of the grindstone brought their faces up, were more horrible and cruel than the visages of the wildest savages in their most barbarous disguise.†
Chpt 3.2
- Twice more in the darkness the bell at the great gate sounded, and the irruption was repeated, and the grindstone whirled and spluttered.†
Chpt 3.2
- A man, so besmeared that he might have been a sorely wounded soldier creeping back to consciousness on a field of slain, was rising from the pavement by the side of the grindstone, and looking about him with a vacant air.†
Chpt 3.2
- The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard.†
Chpt 3.2
- But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with a red upon it that the sun had never given, and would never take away.†
Chpt 3.2
Definition:
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(grindstone as in: sharpen on a grindstone) a revolving disk-shaped stone used to grind (as when wheat is ground to flour), or used to sharpen or polish (as when sharpening a knife)