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  • 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!

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

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