3. A grating sound when the two ends of the broken bone are rubbed together.

In a few minutes, all the Romans were off; Florio soon after vanished, grating his teeth in a poetical frenzy; and even Captain Kant, albeit so used to look truth in the face, beat a retreat.

" The crowd of fathers and mothers and younger brothers and sisters pressed close to the iron grating as the train got under way.

But at the same instant, a grating noise startled him, directly overhead, out of doors.

At a sign from the captain, John, with a shameless leer, stepped forward and stood passively on the grating, while the bareheaded old quarter-master, with his gray hair streaming in the wind, bound his feet to the cross-bars and, stretching out his arms over his head, secured them to the hammock netting above.

They had chosen this spot because it is close by the sewer-grating of the gutter, so that the blood would run down at once, and would leave fewer traces.

He came to my cell, or to the grating of the passage in which I was confined, on the very first Sunday of my imprisonment, and he readily promised, at my request, to furnish me with a Bible; though in that act of kindness he was anticipated by the colored woman of whom I have already made mention, who appeared at my cell, with a Bible for me, just after Mr. Wood had left it.

Old twelfth-century church in the town; and outside, behind a grating, lies the tomb of the Saints Abdon and Sennen.

I had hardly made this remark, when a severe shock, accompanied by a grating sound, conveyed to me the disagreeable information that the stern of the vessel was on the rocks.

During this period the thumping and grating continued.

Prussian sentries do duty at the doors; how grating this must be to the old invalids!

Old Mizzou said it was the grating of boulders as they were rolled along the bed of the stream.

One of them saw Thor, and the deep, grating bleat of warning that rattled out of his throat a hunter could have heard a mile away.

While we talked there was a knock at the front door, and through the grating we saw the red fez and vaguely smiling visage of the mutessarif's secretary.

I made out the ivy trailing outside over one of the big windows ... and then the tall clock by the front door made a grating noise deep down inside its bodyit was the Presentation clock, large and hideous, given by the congregation of his churchand, dreading the booming strike it seemed to threaten, I made a quick decision.

Dark is the starless night; Only one feeble light Burns at the grating surmounting the door; Has his advance been heard?

Just in the heart of the brattle the grating of the yett turning on its rusty hinges was but too plainly heard.

The admission of slaves was a most grating circumstance to his mind, and he believed would be so to a great part of the people of America.

" Marty made a strange grating sound in his throat, and Adelaide asked like a queen bending from the throne: "What seems to be the matter, Burke?" "Why,"Burke turned upon her the flare of his light, fierce eyes,"they have it on me on the dock that as soon as he comes back he means to bounce me.

The instruction given is essentially by lecture and questioning; and I was particularly struck with the quiet modulated tones in which the answers were given, and which clearly proved how much pains were taken upon this apparently trifling, but really very important, point.[AR] You heard no harsh declamation grating on your ear; and, on the other hand, you were not lulled to sleep by dreary, dull monotony.

There was a scurry of feet inside, and we could hear a grating noise and a terrific jar as the inner, steel door shut.

I suppose some of these old schooners can be picked up for the price of an old song?" The captain, grating his chair along the floor, came nearer still; so near that Mr. Stobell instinctively put out his right elbow.

At Vagney and other places near it in the Vosges it used to be customary on the same evening to grease the hinges and the latches of the doors, that no harsh grating sound should break the slumbers of the infant Christ.

Through the double curtains made out of some thin material I saw the window streaked with shining bars, like the grating in front of a fire.

At a moment when I, feeling too harrowed, was not looking, I heard a cry different from hers, a cry that was scarcely more than the sound of a moving object, a light grating.