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Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONAll the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETT"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSSomething remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODTo-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYThey held the compound against repeated assaults, and lost several men in hand-to-hand fighting.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYI wouldn't go on if I were you, sir; the luck's dead against you to-night; I wouldn't go on, indeed I wouldn't.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSNow many people think that we are moving in the direction of world socialism to-day.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSLet your orders for preparation go round tonight, so that your knaves may be ready to set out betimes to-morrow.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIWhen I went out he accompanied me to the door, took my hand in both of his and said, "To-day you've covered yourself with glory!"
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYWORDS RELATED TO AX TO GRIND
- affliction
- ax to grind
- beef
- bellyache
- big stink
- blast
- case
- cross
- damage
- distress
- flack
- grief
- grouse
- hardship
- holler
- hoo-ha
- howl
- injury
- injustice
- jeremiad
- kick
- knock
- objection
- outrage
- pain
- pain in the neck
- rap
- resentment
- rigor
- roar
- rumble
- sorrow
- squawk
- stink
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unhappiness
- violence
- wrong
- yell
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- ax to grinds
- beeves
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- blasts
- cases
- crosses
- damages
- distress
- flack
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- hardships
- hollers
- hoo-has
- howls
- injuries
- injustices
- jeremiads
- kicks
- knocks
- objections
- outrages
- pain in the necks
- pains
- raps
- resentments
- rigors
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- sorrows
- squawks
- stinks
- trials
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- troubles
- unhappiness
- violence
- wrongs
- yells
- aberration
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- bee
- bee in bonnet
- bug
- bug in ear
- compulsion
- craving
- craze
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- delirium
- dementia
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- desire
- disorder
- enthusiasm
- fad
- fancy
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- fetish
- fixed idea
- frenzy
- furor
- grabber
- hang-up
- idée fixe
- infatuation
- insanity
- lunacy
- monomania
- obsession
- on the brain
- partiality
- passion
- preoccupation
- rage
- thing
- tiger
- tiger by the tail
- attractions
- ax to grinds
- bug in ears
- cases
- complexes
- compulsions
- concrete ideums
- crazes
- crushes
- delusions
- enthusiasms
- fancies
- fascinations
- fetishes
- hang-ups
- idée fixes
- infatuations
- manias
- monkeys
- musts
- neuroses
- one-track minds
- passions
- phantoms
- phobias
- preoccupations
- something on the brains
- things
- tiger by the tails
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.