grinding-out

Updated: July 24, 2025

But the ordinary man of the street, the ordinary man or woman of society, of the world what can they tell you about art or music or life or religion, about tailors and golf and exhaust-pipes and furniture what on earth can they tell you that you have not heard already? A mere grinding-out of commonplaces! How often one has covered the same field!

Norman Douglas - Alone

"I don't quite understand it," was Elinor's comment, when they had put distance between themselves and Penelope's joyous grinding-out of a Wagner scroll. "It looks as if the owners had just walked out at a moment's notice." "They did," said Kent. "They went to Europe, I believe. And by the way; I think I have a souvenir here somewhere.

Francis Lynde - The Grafters