One of our officers who knows this town and its inhabitants, says if you curse a man he will only laugh in your face, but when you begin cursing to all eternity his brothers and sisters, father and mother, he begins to wax wroth, and by the time you reach the tenth to the fourteenth generation he dances about with fury and gnashes his teeth.
"The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde""
George Davidson
The royal gentleman gnashes his false teeth in vain, and has scene after scene with the royal son, who, green with rage, reproaches him for having parted with these treasures.
"In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875."
L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
But he is generally melancholy and despairing, and sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him.
"Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus"
Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley