14 adjectives to describe nipping

Now let's find a comfortable room and have a little nip of whiskey apiece and a pipe.

Sorel was a clumsy little beast of a cheery and indeed puppyish disposition; Kasper was fierce, the largest of the five, even in his play he would always bite, and gave his godfather many a sharp nip as time went on.

But, although the air was getting a little nipping in New York, he knew that it must still be balmy and enjoyable in Virginia.

The galeAnchored to a berg which proves to be a treacherous oneDangers of the "pack"Beset in the iceMivins shows an inquiring mindWalrusesGale freshensChains and cablesHolding on for lifeAn unexpected discoveryA "nip" and its terrible consequencesYoked to an iceberg.

"The gentleman was not averse to an occasional nip, at any rate," said Pendleton.

Satan danced about him in mad glee, giving him a playful nip at his wool and springing back to give him another nip, and then away again.

IV Such a perfect day: the sky cloudless; sunlight like pale gold or amber; soft mists in the distance; a delicate air, gently stirred, fresh, with no poisonous nip in it.

The world has given you many a shrewd nip and gird since that time, but either my eyes are grown dimmer, or my old friend is the same, who stood before me three and twenty years agohis hair a little confessing the hand of time, but still shrouding the same capacious brain,his heart not altered, scarcely where it "alteration finds.

" "True, Joe; if it break, we might get an ugly nip before we killed him.

Blackburn is one of the towns which has suffered more than the rest in the present crisis, and yet a stranger to the place would not see anything in its outward appearance indicative of this adverse nip of the times.

The first consequence of that vigorous nip was a momentary dance up and down in the punt, accompanied by exclamatory howls from Dick, but not by a word of any sort from the crab.

You observe our position, Captain Gar'ner; there is every prospect of a most awful nip!"

No bitter winter nips these tender little sympathies, no hot sun burns the life out of them; and therefore they outlast the longevity of the oak, and, if the woodman permitted, would bury it in a green grave, when all is over.

And then the heart is renta thunderstroke That makes men dust before they hear the sound A shaft that leaves dark venom in the wound A frost that all the buds of manhood nips A sea of passion in which true love's drowned A demon strangling virtue in his grips A day when reason's son is quenched in dread eclipse.

14 adjectives to describe  nipping