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Updated: May 20, 2025
An archbishop of Mayence used to say that "the human heart is like a millstone: if you put wheat under it, it grinds the wheat into flour; if you put no wheat, it grinds on, but then 'tis itself it wears away." Indolence is usually full of excuses; and the sluggard, though unwilling to work, is often an active sophist.
Chic, that indefinite, indefinable word, changeable and subtle like a capillary hygrometer, is a Parisian tyranny that grinds out more fashionable lives than the King of Dahomey offers as victims on his great feast days. For Blanche, everything in this most stimulated, over-excited, feverishly deranged life, was reduced to these two inevitable conclusions: what was chic and what was not chic.
And one of the people addressing him, said, Master, I have brought my son to thee, who hath a dumb spirit; and wherever he seizeth him, he throws him into strong convulsions: and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and pines away. And I spoke to thy disciples, that they should cast him out; and they were unable.
"Slaves of the bishopric," proceeded Ronan addressing those who surrounded him, "what charges have you to prefer against your bishop?" "He grinds us down with toil and with taxes. He oppresses us from morning till night all the year long!" "For food he lets us have a handful of beans, for clothes rags, and for shelter rickety mud huts!" "Our slightest oversights are visited with the whip!"
Away he went, as though the Evil One were at his heels, to his brother's house, and begged him for God's sake to take back the quern that instant; for, said he: 'If it grinds only one hour more, the whole parish will be swallowed up by herrings and broth. But his brother wouldn't hear of taking it back till the other paid him down three hundred dollars more.
"Do you cut any glass here?" "Oh, yes. Cut glass is made from the heavier crystal variety. The design is roughly outlined upon it in white and then the cutter places the part to be cut against an emery-wheel, which grinds out the grooves and figures and makes the pattern.
Blackana, still holding me by the hand, spoke! thus in a derisive strain: "O mortal, now comes my glorious revenge I have tasted your insults until their galling bitterness grinds me still. I have craved for this hour when I might leave you to the mercy of the lowest, and bring you under my feet for ever."
But brethren, and friends, there are but these three ways for it either our life is the subject of a mere chaotic chance; or else it is put into the mill of an iron destiny, which goes grinding on and crushing with its remorseless wheels, regardless of what it grinds up; or else, through it all, in it all, beneath it and above it all, there is the Will which is Love, and the Love which is Christ!
Swarthiest of the organ-grinding tribe is he who peers up at my window out of infinitesimal black eyes, perceives me, louts low, and for form's sake grinds me out a tune before he begins to talk. As we parley together, say it is eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and a sober tranquillity reigns upon the dust and nodding weeds of Benicia Street.
"I speak for the class prophecy," said Grace. "That leaves nothing for me but the grinds. But that job would be greatly to my taste," said Nora. "What about the rest of the class?" inquired Anne, smiling at this monopoly of class honors. "Are we to carry off all the glory!" "Without a doubt," Jessica answered. "After us there are no more."
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