| Determined to become a chiropractor from a very early age, she kept her nose to the grindstone all through high school and college. |
| I found him at the grindstone, turning it with one hand as he held a butchery knife to it with the other. |
| Climbing on the roof, Gawain suddenly heard a violent noise, clattering off the cliff like a grindstone on a scythe. |
| Brian keeps my nose to the grindstone and I continue to drive him up the wall with my behind-the-scene questions. |
| His master, Monsieur Vanderdendur, cut off his hand when his finger got caught in the grindstone in a sugar mill. |
| We also took turns at turning the crank of the grindstone when scythes needed to be sharpened. |
