In that uneasy close recess Couches a sleeping Lioness; The next den holds a Bear; the next A Wolf, by hunger ever vext; There, fiercer from the keeper's lashes, His teeth the fell Hyena gnashes; That creature on whose back abound Black spots upon a yellow ground, A Panther is, the fairest beast That haunteth in the spacious East.

You, Thus saith the Spirit, when the retinue Of saints with Christ returns on earth to shine, When the fifth angel's vial pours condign Vengeance with awful ire and torments due, You shall be girt with gloom; your lips profane, Disloyal tongues, and savage teeth shall grind And gnash with fury fell and anger vain:

If I but once lay hands upon the slave, That thus hath robb'd me of my dearest jewel, I'll rend the miscreant to a thousand pieces, And gnash his trembling members 'twixt my teeth, Drinking his live-warm blood to satisfy The boiling thirst of pain and furiousness, That thus exasperates great Polypheme.

For a long time he sinks through the flood; then, as he reaches bottom, Grendel's mother rushes out upon him and drags him into a cave, where sea monsters swarm at him from behind and gnash his armor with their tusks.

frown, scowl, make a wry face, gnash one's teeth, wring one's hands, tear one's hair, beat one's breast, roll on the ground, burst with grief. complain, murmur, mutter, grumble, growl, clamor, make a fuss about, croak, grunt, maunder; deprecate &c (disapprove) 932. cry out before one is hurt, complain without cause.

The old deeply-rooted faith in destiny has disappeared; fate governs as an outwardly despotic power, and the slaves gnash their teeth as they wear its fetters.

Her eyes flashed fire, her tail waved angrily, and she began to gnash her teeth.

When thou art absent, Death rises to my view, with all his terrours; Then visions, horrid as a murd'rer's dreams, Chill my resolves, and blast my blooming virtue: Stern torture shakes his bloody scourge before me, And anguish gnashes on the fatal wheel.

Did we force ourselves on thee, or thou on us? FAUST Cease thus to gnash thy ravenous fangs at me!

He raves under it, and storms, and gnashes, and smites; but the more he smites, the hotter it gets, and the more it burns him.

He raves under it, and storms, and gnashes, and smites; but the more he smites, the hotter it gets, and the more it burns him.

"Mr. Stanly: 'I hope that the gentleman will not gnash his teeth so hard; he might hurt himself.

Ay, my friends, so terrible is the torment of shame, that you may see brave men,men who would face death in battle, men who would have a limb cut off without a groan, you may see such, in spite of all their courage, gnash their teeth, and writhe in agony, and weep bitter tears, simply because they are ashamed of themselves, so terrible and unbearable is the torment of shame.

Some untoward circumstance comes unawares on the perfect creature: a burst of temper knits the brow, inflames the eye, inflates the nostril, gnashes the teeth, and converts the angel into a storming fury.

There is a broad way to hell through a convent, my brothers, where miserable wretches go who have neither the spirit to serve the Devil wholly, nor the patience to serve God; there be many shaven crowns that gnash their teeth in hell to-night,many a monk's robe is burning on its owner in living fire, and the devils call him a fool for choosing to be damned in so hard a way.

I gnash my teeth at the very thought, for in admitting his rights she degrades herself; and that is not allowed, even to her.

Such a story causes the teeth of all the members of the General Staff to gnash with fury.

grincer un sourire: a bold and vivid expression, grincer meaning 'to gnash the teeth.

How they will gnash the teeth when they hear the terrible tidingsJosé Pacheco, don and son of a don, will have none of them, nor will he give way to their poor burros on the highway!"

The hemlock's nature thrives on cold; The gnash of northern winds Is sweetest nutriment to him, His best Norwegian wines.

I gnash my teeth with impotent rage and despair.

And although I Gnash my teeth when I look in your French or your English papers, What is the good of that?

On my way I passed some magnificent evergreen oaks, and some thickets of exquisite evergreen shrubs, and one or two beautiful sites for a residence, which made me gnash my teeth when I thought of the one we have chosen.

And having got up to the top of the next hill I made ready to go down as fast as I had gone before, for we had fallen back a little, and the stag was now getting ahead of us; but it made me gnash my teeth to find that I could not go fast, for Jone held back with all his force (and both feet on the ground, I expect), and I could not get on at all.

His hair is of flame fizzing over his head, As likewise his heard and eye-lashes; His drink's "low-test naphtha," his nag, it is said, Eats flaming tow soaked in combustibles dread, Which hot from the manger he gnashes.