Grape-stomping replacement

Usage examples of winepress.

And there lay winter outside for ever, a great leaden winepress smashing down its colourless lid of sky, squashing them all like so many grapes, mashing colour and sense and being from everyone, save the children who fled on skis and toboggans down mirrored hills which reflected the crushing iron shield that hung lower above town each day and every eternal night.

Even a shallow niche might save them from being crushed like grapes in a winepress by the next stone.

And if in that we are treading the winepress alone as far as our fellow-men are concerned, all the more we have Him with us in all our agony who wept over the heart of man because He knew what was in it, and what must always come out of it.

Most were powerful women with a thirst for knowledge, more than ready to squeeze Merilille like a grape in the winepress, demanding the last drop of juice.

Courage did not fail him, but brightness died out of his world, and he knew himself condemned to tread a dark winepress alone.

And there is the ploughshare and the winepress and the threshing-floor.

And though I have eaten of the grapes and have tasted the new vintage at the winepress, I cannot tell you all.

And the angel thrust in his sickle into the Earth, and gathered the vine of the Earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress.

Gradually, I remember, this numbness of mind gave way to one consciousness--the consciousness of utter isolation, of treading the winepress alone.