Nose to the grindstone, he was up all night.

This Text holdeth their noses so hard to the grynde stone that it clean disfigureth their faces.

I shall to reuenge former hurts,
Hold their noses to grinstone.

People whose heads are a little up in the world, have no occasion to keep their nose to the grindstone.

Thirty years ago, I lived in Stearns County with my wife and little boy in a rented farmhouse south of Freeport, an area of nose-to-the-grindstone German Catholics proud of their redneck reputation.

Nose to the grindstone

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