We had nothing to wear but what we had on, and not much of that, so had small space for carrying anything, and, therefore, had brought with us only a little bite to eat.

The wound should be checked to see if it is a poisonous or non poisonous bite.

Ten miles is a mere "flea-bite," as Bluff Masters said, when a good, lively motor-cycle "takes the bit in its teeth," and it seemed as though they had hardly more than got well started before the junction was reached, where Jerry swung ahead, and the rest trailed after him.

For as the dog 330 (Whose fatal bite conveyed the infectious bane)

Suddenly he felt something slimy and hairy against his wristthen a stinging bite.

The Major and the elephants hurried back, and met the man limping along, bleeding from several scratches, and with a nasty bite in his shoulder, but otherwise more frightened than hurt.

In the agitation consequent upon this incident she butters her bread with the lard, and takes an enormous bite on the way up stairs.

Whilst taking a few angles near the cliffs, we suddenly experienced a series of severe bites or nippings in several parts of our body, and looking round to discover whence arose this unexpected attack, found ourselves under a tree covered with large green ants.

Deaths from actual snake bite are sadly numerous; but it appears from returns furnished to the Indian Government that Europeans enjoy a very happy exemption.

Thy fires unquenched preserve, As erst the vestal flame; the pointed steel In the hot embers hide; and if surprised Thou feel'st the deadly bite, quick urge it home Into the recent sore, and cauterise The wound; spare not thy flesh, nor dread the event: Vulcan shall save when Aesculapius fails.

Father Penney took a hasty bite in the buttery, and soon disappeared to rescue his goods from the highway.

Nulla scabies, as he said, superstitione scabiosior; as he that is bitten with a mad dog bites others, and all in the end become mad; either out of affection of novelty, simplicity, blind zeal, hope and fear, the giddy-headed multitude will embrace it, and without further examination approve it.

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Upon my taking hold of it, it gave me a sharp bite, which caused me to let it drop.

His next is to give it a one-sided bite at the edge, as a test of its quality.

when the experiment was tried, it was found that the wheel not only had sufficient bite or adhesion upon the rail to prevent slipping and give a forward motion to the engine, but that a number of cars might be attached and also moved.

They know of several herbs that have great virtues in physic, particularly for the cure of venomous bites and wounds.

And, lastly, the same rapid venom sprinkled over the whole; which, like the dying impotent bite of a trodden benumbed snake, may be nauseous and offensive, but cannot be very dangerous.

He was one of the nicest young prehistoric men that ever sprang seven feet into the air to avoid the impulsive bite of a sabre-tooth tiger, or cheered the hearts of grave elders searching for inter-tribal talent by his lightning sprints in front of excitable mammoths.

It is said that the mosquito, if undisturbed until he has taken his fill, leaves a much less inflamed bite than if brushed away in the midst of his feast.

And now I feel keen hunger bite.

They both had daggers, and upon the arm of the one the dog had seized, there was the deep scar of what seemed to be a desperate bite.

," said Anthea, giving her pen a vicious bite, "I don't believe he ever was; he is always sohatefully placid, and deliberate!"

Sing, philosophic Muse, the dire effects Of this contagious bite on hapless man.

This was a merely metaphoric bite; The next was fact, and gave the boy a fright: For lo!