26 Verbs to Use for the Word grits

" "I 'ain't got grit!"

"There is nothing to be gained by losing my grit because I have been kidnapped by the crows," thought he.

" "All I want to say about it, boys," observed Max, "is that I admire the grit of the boy.

"She looked scared but stiddy, and I'll bet it took as much grit for her to do it as for one of us to face a battery.

The boy had certainly shown more grit and grace than he had credited him with possessing.

Four or five hours will be necessary for cooking the unsoaked grits.

Atcha!" That conversation and Jeremy's conversion to the big idea took place on the way across the desert to Jerusalema journey that took us a week on camel-backa rowdy, hot journey with the stifling simoom blowing grit into our followers' throats, who sang and argued alternately nevertheless.

It's the hoboes we are after to make them 'hit the grit'."

But, Mate, when you see a cruelly oppressed people winning their freedom with almost nothing to back them hut plain grit, you want to sing, dance, pray and shout all at the same time, and there is no mistake about young China having a mortgage on all the surplus nerve of the country.

Perhaps he lacked his master's grit.

But they seem a hearty, good-natured lot, and they said they liked my grit.

* THE TIN PEDDLER Jason White has come ter town Drivin' his tin peddler's cart, Pans a-bangin' up an' down Like they'd tear theirselves apart; Kittles rattlin' underneath, Coal-hods scrapin' out a song, Makes a feller grit his teeth When old Jason comes along.

They have very long and very thin roots, admirably suited to pierce the grit, and explore the cracks in the rock, to find the moisture they need.

One hears very little concerning them nowadays, but it is certain that when in their prime they possessed all the grit, determination, and endurance that are looked for in a good working terrier.

I like the originality of the idea; I'm pleased with the difficulties I see looming ahead; I'm quite sure my girls will rise to every occasion and prove their grit."

Soak in cold water and rinse very well to remove all grit, &c. Trim away stalks and tough fibre at the back of the leaf.

(1) Scrupulous Asepsis, if intelligently taught, can be learned in six months' training, though one feels bound to add it requires moral "grit" in the character to make one unswervingly faithful in observing it.

If you haven't any emery dust, scrape some grit from a common whetstone.

Sometimes you would strike a little grit or gravel in it and break your teeth.

Levuka isn't the spot where a man can pick and choose, so I wiped the shell grit from my drill suit and told myself that I had better accept the berth instead of waiting in expectation of something better turning up.

I have brought the grits, but have forgotten butter and salt.

My drill outfit, that I had thought rather clean when I brushed the shell grit from it after my sleep on the wharf, looked as black as the devil's tail when she appeared.

We mighty glad to eat grits an cornbread dat night.

The taper of blow-off cocks is an important element in their construction; as, if the taper be too great, the plugs will have a continual tendency to rise, which, if the packing be slack, will enable grit to get between the faces, while, if the taper be too little, the plug will be liable to jam, and a few times grinding will sink it so far through the shell that the waterways will no longer correspond.

"God gimme the grit to stick it out," begged Haw-Haw Langley in an agony of desire.

26 Verbs to Use for the Word  grits