| He went to her and begged her not to marry gride, but she thought it her duty. |
| 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. |
| Vainly did gride bemoan the loss of the money he had hoped to gain, and vainly did Ralph Nickleby, with curses, try to prevent. |
| The allusion to friends, and the offer of money, gride held to be mere empty vapouring, for purposes of delay. |
| 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. |
