| Vainly did gride bemoan the loss of the money he had hoped to gain, and vainly did Ralph Nickleby, with curses, try to prevent. |
| To all entreaties, protestations, and offers of compromise between his own proposals and those which Arthur Gride had first suggested, Ralph was deaf as an adder. |
| Yet, for all of his research, he discovered only one noise that is universally intolerable: the gride, the rasping sound epitomized by nails on a chalkboard. |
| The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of waggons, and the staccato of hoofs. |
| He went to gride, too, but the hideous old miser only sneered at him. |
| Then I saw some cabmen and others had walked boldly into the sand pits, and heard the clatter of hoofs and the gride of wheels. |
