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Example sentences for "gripes"

Lexicographically close words:
grinning; grins; grip; gripe; griped; griping; gripings; gripman; grippe; gripped
  1. Of Gripes and Pains in the, Bellies of Young Children.

  2. The boats in davits were creaking and groaning, as they strained against their gripes with each disconcerting jerk of the ship.

  3. Some were attended with the Dysentery; and the Purging and Gripes were most severe on the Days of the aguish Paroxysms.

  4. After throwing up a Quantity of green bilious Matter, the Vomiting ceased; and the Gripes and Purging became less violent.

  5. He had no regular hot and cold Fits; but every second Day, after a slight Shivering and Cold, he was seized with Gripes and a Purging.

  6. At first, this Medicine seemed to promise much, particularly in the Case of an old Invalid, William Brookes; who had been long ill of a Flux, attended with Gripes and a Tenesmus.

  7. In her Life-time she complained, more than ordinary, of Gripes in her Belly, especially in her Left Side.

  8. Very soon the Gripes became more severe, attended with a Flatulency in the Bowels, and often with a Tenesmus.

  9. Had he been slaughter-man to all my kin, I should not for my life but weep with him, To see how inly sorrow gripes his soul.

  10. Look there, my lords; By virtue of that ring I take my cause Out of the gripes of cruel men and give it To a most noble judge, the King my master.

  11. Next to those come the terrors of men, the gripes of the laws, the shadow of death, and no man can tell what.

  12. But mercury exhibited to a child by the mouth generally gripes and purges, seldom doing any good, and given to the wet-nurse it does not answer very well, and certainly is a very cruel practice.

  13. Occasionally there is no fever; in which case the gripes lead the way, and the purging follows soon after.

  14. This was the case with the excellent and learned Daniel Coxe, Doctor of Physic, in whom "the gripes and bloody motions ceased after the fourth clyster.

  15. A vessel gripes when she tends to come up into the wind while sailing close-hauled.

  16. To interlace; as in making boats' gripes and flat gaskets.

  17. Gripes for a quarter boat are similarly used.

  18. The gripes are fastened at their ends to ring-bolts in the deck, on each side of the boat; whence, passing over her middle and extremities, they are set up by means of the laniards.

  19. They have none of thy gripes of conscience, and terrors under the guilt of such a sin.

  20. I doubt not but it hath given thee some gripes for thy very lust, before it ever came to practice; but the sorest of its gripes now, are but like the playing of the cat with the mouse, before the killing gripe is given.

  21. How miserably will you be tormented, between the tyranny of your own concupiscence, the sting of sin, the gripes of conscience, and the terrors of the Lord!

  22. Oh if I could but save them in time from those gripes of conscience that will pull them to pieces on the softest and the most fragrant bed that shall ever be made for them on earth!

  23. These seeds are in the number of the four greater hot seeds: their principal use is in cold flatulent disorders, where tenacious phlegm abounds, and in the gripes to which young children are subject.

  24. In colicky pains, the gripes to which children are subject, lienteries, and other kinds of immoderate fluxes, this plant frequently does good service.

  25. The officer of the watch, however, had already made preparations to this end, the first cutter's crew having been piped and the men standing ready by the davits to lower her into the water, with the gripes cast off and the falls cleared.

  26. Draper, who had saved her and us, was the last man to leave her, when the falls were secured and the gripes put round the boat again.

  27. Looke there my Lords, By vertue of that Ring, I take my cause Out of the gripes of cruell men, and giue it To a most Noble Iudge, the King my Maister Cham.

  28. Had he been slaughter-man to all my Kinne, I should not for my Life but weepe with him, To see how inly Sorrow gripes his Soule Queen.

  29. I am sure I am famish'd; And famine, as the wise man says, Gripes the guts as much as any Mineral.

  30. But he so stirred himself, again he rose: He gripes Rogero so, fast locked they stand.

  31. But him the paynim well awakes again, Whom by the neck he with strong arm has caught, And gripes and grapples with such mighty force, He falls on earth, pulled headlong from his horse.

  32. The sufferer from gripes should take special care not to take any food except lime-juice in hot water, so long as there is discharge of blood or mucus.

  33. They ought not to be eaten at all in cases of gripes accompanied by a bad taste in the mouth.

  34. I have myself seen severe cases of constipation, dysentery, piles and gripes effectively cured by this simple treatment.

  35. The dog of experience always gripes his marsupial adversary by the butt end of the tail, close to the rump, or at its juncture with the spinal vertebræ.

  36. Once the dog has thrown his kangaroo, he makes for the throat, which he gripes firmly, while at the same time he is careful to keep his own body as far as he conveniently can from the quarry's dangerous hind quarters.

  37. The morbus cholera and the gripes were to the new fever "like the circumjoviales that move in the same sphere with (but at some distance from) their master-planet.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gripes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ache; aching; angina; colic; constipation; diarrhea; dysentery; dyspepsia; flux; fret; gnawing; gripe; headache; heartburn; indigestion; irregularity; migraine; toothache; trots