The shrubs, too, are badly bitten, especially the various species of ceanothus.

His comrades hastened in a boat to his assistance; but when they had struck the fishes from him and got him up, they found he was so severely bitten, that he shortly afterward expired.

He bit savagely at his lip and turned away.

Their reserves were on the way to their left where they were urgently wanted, there was nothing strong enough to replace such heavy wastage caused to them by the attack of the night of November 1 and the morning of the 2nd, and our big gains of ground were an enormous advantage to us for the second phase in the Gaza sector, for we had bitten deeply into the Turks' right flank.

The lieutenant bit his lips and his face flushed angrily, while Sukey, who sat on the opposite side of the Irishman, snickered, and Morgianna bit her pretty lip most cruelly in trying to conceal the merriment which her roguish eyes expressed.

Somehow no sarcasm of my father's had bitten as deep as those last words of hers.

"It all comes of this plagued old winter-time," she declared, sharply biting her thread, for she was mending a table-cloth.

Tell him that they plead the law with blows, and bite more fiercely than they bark."

It was merely a bit of the game, the old, old game at which she, being richly favoured by nature, was as skilful as a girl of eighteen or nineteen could possibly be.

She bit nervously at the nail of her thumb, pressed desperately against her teeth.

She hesitated, saw that he had not looked, bit her lip angrily, and snatched up the parcel.

Poppaea's wit bites shrewdly; and even Nimphidius' wicked breast must have been chilled at such bitter jesting as: "How did our Princely husband act Orestes? Did he not wish againe his Mother living?

The bear overtook him, knocked him down and bit him severely.

But the sign of an impaired circulation soon began to show itself in the liability of all to be dreadfully frost-bitten.

Then, as the sand-box is brought into requisition, the wheels distinctly bite the rail, and, in the words of the race-track, "They're off."

"Another!" cried Betty unguardedly, and could have promptly bitten her tongue for the betrayal of her thought.

The Prince was biting his lips desperately; Vernon turned red and white and red again in evident amazement.

As one observer has remarked, the animal may begin literally biting pieces out of his limb.

The skep full was indeed a wonderful feast for them, they bit greedily into the heavy scented comb, their jaws were drowned in the sticky flood of sweetness, and they gorged themselves on it without restraint.

A barking dog seldom bites.

" De Chauxville bit his thumb-nail anxiously.

You see, he's got no teeth, so he couldn't possibly bite anyonenow, could he? Assistant.

Taken all in all, they certainly enjoyed that first bite ashore after the completion of their memorable flight across the Atlantic.

Mr. Burchell tells us that several of his dogs were wounded by the bites of baboons, and two or three dogs were thus bitten asunder.

What's the idea, Billie?" "Well," replied Billie, biting off her thread calmly, "we have to eat while we're there, you know.