| Gradgrind never could by any other means have believed in, weighable and measurable fact though it was. |
| Forcibly separated from the means of subsistence, by acts of enclosure in England, clearances in Scotland, they had little choice but to work for Gradgrind in his mill. |
| In such terms Mr Gradgrind always mentally introduced himself, whether to his private circle of acquaintance, or to the public in general. |
| The deadly statistical recorder in the Gradgrind observatory knocked every second on the head as it was born, and buried it with his accustomed regularity. |
| Thomas Gradgrind now presented Thomas Gradgrind to the little pitchers before him, who were to be filled so full of facts. |
