"I do wish the boys wouldn't talk to me as if I was a ship," said Rose, bringing forward a private grievance.

Some of those assassinated had nothing to do with the war against America but were targeted because of private grievances.

He may have private grievances of which we know nothing, and may be ripe for such a move.

The bulk of the personal statements by the officers concerned their private grievances.

The German spy might have had a private grievance against the youth, they said, which he meant to pay off in his own dastardly way.

Should we all start using the guardian to air our private grievances?

It was hard for Farrokh to imagine anyone, especially a woman, with a private grievance against his father.

But the same process might equally well lead from private grievance to public fanaticism of the darkest kind.

But in the book itself, he comes across as something more than a man with a private grievance.

That is, if we are not crippled by those with their own private grievances to pursue.