When he saw she was a grown-up, he gnashed the little pearls at her.
SPARTANS GNASH MOLARS.
But above all--sometimes Archer put it above all--it was in that library that the Governor of New York, coming down from Albany one evening to dine and spend the night, had turned to his host, and said, banging his clenched fist on the table and gnashing his eye-glasses: "Hang the professional politician!
When Bathsheba had cried out in her husband's grasp, Boldwood's face of gnashing despair had changed.