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gripe

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gripe
1. a sudden intense pain in the intestines; colic
2. Nautical the lashings that secure a boat


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Because of his age and his cunning, because of his gripe and his paw, In all that the Law leaveth open, the word of the Head Wolf is Law.
He remembers nothing but his own inside--an' I wish it'ud gripe him.
The crimson hand expressed the ineludible gripe in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their visible frames return to dust.
 
 
 
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