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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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

A barking dog seldom bites.

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.

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

He bit into it heartily as he left Asquam and swung into Pickery Lane.

It is one chance less, you know, of having it bite them horribly, and then run away after all.

I had taken him to see the jackdaw, and the little bear that Bobby brought from foreign parts; and jacky had bitten his finger so humorously, and we had been so merry, and I had told him again how much I wished that he could change places with father.

Then only did she perceive that she still held in her hand her roll, which she had forgotten to eat; and she plunged among the trees, biting it impatiently with her fine young teeth.

But they do not know if the meat was killed with a poisonous arrow or if an asp may have inadvertently bitten the fruit.

The solid building was the palace of iron-grey old King William; and when the clock-work sentinels went through their salute, I got my first sight of that famous Prussian discipline, against which before the summer was through supple France was to crush its teeth all to fragments, like a viper that has incautiously bitten at a file.

Herr von S. took them along to examine them, and the guards left the house without Margaret's giving another sign of life than that of incessantly biting her lips and blinking her eyes.