grind quotes

And she said,The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the L was departed from him. But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDJudges16:20^21.

   What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord G of hosts.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ODIsaiah 3:15.

My life is one demd horrid grind!

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^9  Mr Mantalini. Nicholas Nickleby, ch.64.

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