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a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. iii. 233 Say..that Your Minds pre-occupy'd with what you rather must do, Then what you should, made you against the graine To Voyce him Consull. View more context for this quotation

1650 T. Hubbert Pilula 65 O this goes against the grain, this cannot be indured.

a1659 F. Osborne Characters (1673) 630 To whom in all things you are bound to obey, though contrary to the grain of Prudence it self.

1691–1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World (1704) ii. xii. 514 That which seems..more against the grain of common prejudice.

1694 J. Dryden Love Triumphant v. i. 71 It goes against the grain to give it them.

1778 H. Laurens in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) II. 119 Such provision will be against the grain of the people.

1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 12 July (1939) 201 I have dawdled and written letters sorely against the grain all day.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Love thou thy Land in Poems (new ed.) I. 224 Cut Prejudice against the grain.

1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. III. xi. 191 I followed your advice at last, though it went against the grain uncommonly.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 82 The mind..unlike the body, must not be made to work against the grain.

1886 W. Stubbs 17 Lect. Study Hist. Pref. p. v The lectures were written under the pressure of statutory compulsion, and against the grain.

1998 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 7 Mar. 3/2 Daytime-student sleeping hours will be observed in the new campus dormitories, something that must go against the biorhythmical grain of anyone between the ages of 18 and 28.