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The voice was strong and clear, if it grated a little.

In this case, she could not do either and it grated against her.

For some reason, her voice seemed to grate on me.

The door slowly grated open just enough to get by.

Ed and I grated on each other for a while.

I gave the car extra energy as we grated by.

She had to play by this culture's rules no matter how much they grated on her.

Something specific grated at the man; she could see it in his eyes.

Words seemed to grate against each other in his mouth.

And this was, these two developments grated up against each other.

The car jerked to a stop and the door grated open.

"That was the main reason I had to come here," the old man grated.

If anything, he just grated on his nerves more each day.

The incident had happened many years before, but still it grated.

Her bench grated a little on the floor as she stood.

God, but it grated at her to have to admit that.

"I finally told him to stay the hell away from her," he grated.

Even that much of an apology grated on him, but he needed her.

Though it grated on every fiber of my being, this had to work.

Then even friends could grate each upon the other's nerves.

He blinked at that word, as though it grated a lot.

It grated upon him to see the feeling his daughter displayed.

Suddenly a chair grated on the floor, and Ed turned.

A key grated in the lock, turning from the other side.

The man forgot that he had grated it earlier in the day.

He put the grate back on and went to the door at the south.

It would be different, of course, if the fire were made too large for the grate.

He turned back to the grate and raised his hand again.

The fire in the grate was warm on his back.

No one knew much about what lay beyond the grate.

I put my nose to the grate and looked inside.

Then he looked back toward the stairs and the grate above.

They just stared up at the grate in the high wall.

The voice in the grate had not once mentioned her husband.

Chapter 3 I looked through a grate at the very end.

He had a bed, a chair, and a fire in the grate behind him.

Looks like an old computer cabinet grate on the top.

Its head came to the level of the barred grate.

He caught himself on the broken grate with his one hand.

They had taken grate care in putting on there make up, it was done well.

His blue face was leaning right out of the grate to see the door.

Small steps lead up to each so that someone could stand on the top step and look out through the grate.

I'd no idea how I was going to deal with this until my eyes settled on the grate.

He waited another half minute, then looked at the grate again.

I heard some of it, through the grates in the streets.

I knelt down by the grate and began to take it off.

That grate could be lowered in a moment, he knew.

On the way home, she had me stand over a subway grate.

But the man came back later, removed the grate and gave it another shot.

I close the door gently and pull the grate across.