They hoped that by yielding, before they were driven quite to the last extremity, by the tide of public sentiment in England, they should escape from all philanthropic interference and surveillance, and be able to bring the faces of their unyoked peasantry to the grindstone of inadequate wages.

The rooms are then let out by the month to master grinders; and at properly adjusted grindstones in each room I saw every variety of grinding, sharpening, and polishing.

He had a hearty appetite at all times, and just now it was increased by his unrequited labor in turning the grindstone for Deacon Jones, as well as by the half-hour he had spent at his new task.

His sobs brought out Mrs. Grindstone into the gallery, to insist, with some asperity, that there should be no noise to awaken her mistress, who was in a sweet sleep.

He went to supper, though little inclined to eat, and during the night was awakened with a load heavier than grindstones on his stomach.

When the children rolled his grindstone about for play, he was kind and indulgent, and would even help them to roll it himself.

I think I have told you of the completeness of his arrangementseverything had been foreseen from grindstones to gas nippers.

The women looked up from their grindstones at the doors, covered their faces for convention's sake, and uncovered them again at once for curiosity.

He had met several of the turnkeys or jailers, drinking with them in the inns there, and making out that he was himself a carter, who waited at Newport till a wind-bound ship should bring grindstones from Lyme Regis.