Exempel på grindstone

• But what, as such, is the ' ' grindstone ' ' here?

• The file-makers used water-powered grindstones and the use of water power was only an option in one part of the town.

• For instance, we have the case of an abrasive wheel, a hand-operated grindstone, which burst, which is a well-known risk, something which is foreseeable.

• These people are at the grindstone and are grappling with the day-to-day and the hour-to-hour problems of business.

• Our noses are pressing themselves willingly to the grindstone.

• I think that girls doing well helps to keep boys' noses to the grindstone.

• It is the voluntary bodies who have their ears to the ground, their noses to the grindstone, or whatever one may call it.

• People have their noses too near to the grindstone and are too busy working away to worry about intricate financial opportunities.

• I regret that separate statistics respecting the number of unemployed grindstone quarrymen are not available.

• They have their noses to the grindstone, and they are not likely to take them off easily.

• He has a very good, human way of holding our noses to the grindstone.

• Take, for instance, the grindstone or the abrasive wheel.

• He has his feet on the earth, and his nose on the grindstone.

• I hope that you will now keep the foot to the grindstone.

• I have had to keep my nose to the grindstone and work for my living.