"O conscience, who can stand against thy power? Endure thy gripes and agonies one hour? Stone, gout, strappado, racks, whatever is Dreadful to sense, are only toys to this - No pleasures, riches, honours, friends can tell How to give ease to this, 'tis like to hell."英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-2》
In the midst of this torrent of general ridicule, the Highlander instinctively griped beneath the folds of his plaid,英文原著 · 《Chronicles of the Canongate》
I saw you come out of Hardie's. I thought in course you had been in to draa: but you says different. Now what was it you did leave behind you at that there shop, if _you_ please: not money?"
"Not money? Only L. 14,000. How the man stares! Why, it's not mine, James; it's my children's: there, good-bye;" and he was actually off this time. But Maxley stretched his long limbs, and caught him in two strides, and griped his shoulder without ceremony.英文原著 · 《Hard Cash》
Who am I? Why, one, sir, who is lodging with a friend Three streets off -- he's a certain. .how d'ye call? Master -- a. .Cosimo of the Medici, I' the house that caps the corner. you were best! Remember and tell me, the day you're hanged, How you affected such a gullet's-gripe! [20] But you, sir, it concerns you that your knaves Pick up a manner, nor discredit you: Zooks, are we pilchards, that they sweep the streets And count fair prize what comes into their net?英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
Or, my scrofulous French novel On gray paper with blunt type! Simply glance at it, you grovel Hand and foot in Belial's gripe: If I double down its pages At the woful sixteenth print, When he gathers his greengages, Ope a sieve and slip it in't?英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
The Tribune paused a moment, evidently striving to suppress his emotion, as he observed the terror he had excited - his eye fell upon Nina, who, forgetting her previous vexation, regarded him with anxious amazement. "Yes," said he to her, "you alone, perhaps, of this fair assemblage, know not that the nobles whom I lately released from the headsman's gripe are a second time forsworn. They have left home in the dead of the night, and already the Heralds proclaim them traitors and rebels. Rienzi forgives no more!"英文原著 · 《Rienzi》
Says the woman who's bringing up personal gripes from law school.美剧 · 《Lie to me》