30 Verbs to Use for the Word gratings

In all Kit's life that was the darkest moment, when he saw his mother led away, half fainting, and heard the grating of his cell door as he enteredentangled in a network of false evidence and treachery from which there seemed no way of escape.

He saw a grating in the floor, close by his bed, and through it the torments of the lost.

The Phenomenon was rather a troublesome companion, for first the right sandal came down, and then the left, and these mischances being repaired, one leg of the little white trousers was discovered to be longer than the other; then the little green parasol with a broad fringe border and no handle, which she bore in her hand, was dropped down an iron grating, and only fished up again by dint of much exertion.

He reached an iron grating, where a fierce heat rolled up and seemed to scorch him.

"When at the foot of this ladder, cross a grating to port side, and then descend a second ladder, which you will find.

See if you can get a pickaxe, a trenching tool, anything, and break down that grating and knock a bigger hole in the window.

my God!" shouted Sukey, and he writhed and leaped, until he displaced the gratings, scattering the nine-tails of the scourge all over his person.

While they waited they examined the iron grating for the door opening, but found none.

" "Rebels and traitors!" said Louis, in a tone like one who felt the harsh grating of the words.

Engine-room doors jambed, but I found the stokehold grating and got some way down the ladder.

He was astounded when he saw the ready-witted youth grasp the grating, swing in, strike the ladder, cling and slide.

Judith secured with ease, on all the public vehicles they utilized that day, a place on the outside edge of a platform, where she had fresh air in abundance and could hang over the grating to watch with extreme interest the intimate bits of tenement-house life which flashed jerkily by.

It took Ken just about five seconds to lay down his lamp and heave up the grating.

Jules dug the little trench according to Joyce's directions, and laid the iron grating which she had borrowed from the cook across it, and built the fire underneath.

He lighted two long waxen tapers, lifted the grating, and I followed him down the narrow steps into the vault where lie the coffins of the Catholic Sovereigns.

That night the prisoners gathered the stone ballast in the hold into a heap under the grating, and standing on the stones forced open the grating, tumbling our people off, and several of the principal Indians leaped out and cast themselves into the sea.

He only rang once, and then waited, posting himself immediately opposite a little grating let into the solid wood of the door.

Now, having no other resource, I am come hither; let us see what justice you do to me."' When the princess had fully instructed me in all these circumstances, I took my leave, and came out by the same sewer, and once more replaced the iron grating.

The sight of the quarter-master rigging his gratings, the boatswain with his detestable green bag of scourges, the master-at-arms standing ready to assist some one to take off his shirt was not calculated to allay his apprehensions.

I'm going up the ladder backward, and when I go out I intend to shove in place the grating that covers the entrance to the deck there.

He slammed down the grating, fastened it in an instant, ran to the low rail and swiftly lowered himself and his pack over it and into the sand.

There sounded the grating of a key in a lock, the shooting of a bolt, and a door opened to admit them.

Presently it was lost in the shadow of the largest tree, and to the sound of breathing succeeded a grating and scratching of bark.

Drain, return to the fire, and for one pint of carrots add one teaspoon of minced parsley, a grating of loaf sugar, one-half teaspoon of paprika, one tablespoon of butter and the juice of half a lemon.

On one occasion he tore down the window gratings in a room of the school-house, with the remark that they darkened the hall; on another he is reported to have refused a dinner invitation from the master, with the impertinent remark that he would never think of asking him in return to dine at Newstead.

30 Verbs to Use for the Word  gratings