263 collocations for bit

He then bit his lips with vexation, and challenged one of the bystanders to play for a smaller stake.

quoth Ulf, biting his nails.

Do you call that a proper occupation for the best blood in Breadalbane?" It was a silly speech, and I could have bitten my tongue out when I had uttered it.

If Serbia chose wrongly in refusing to bite the dust, then the guilt is still chargeable to Austria for forcing her little neighbour to take a choice in haste.

In dressing or undressing, it has a pleasant habit of detecting any bare spot in the body and biting out a piece of flesh, leaving a wound which a few days later looks like an incipient boil.

"Why so?" "Betimes thou dost smile upon the moonfor no reason; scowl upon the earthfor no reason; work with thy lips yet speak no word, and therewith do bite thy fingers-ends, clench thy fistsand all for no reason.

" He stopped suddenly and bit his lips in pain.

He bit his fingers with anxiety, and threw his wig into the fire.

We may well doubt if even animals on waking are affected by their dreams as by realities, or if a dog ever bit a man for a kick received in a dream.

Have you never seen a dog in a fight bite the hand of one who would succour him?" "Maybe, maybe," said the gentleman.

Can't I speak a word without your biting my head off for it?

They cannot endure the least injury done unto them before their mistress, and in her defence will bite off one another's noses; they are most impatient of any flout, disgrace, lest emulation or participation in that kind.

[Exit, biting his thumb; the soldiers stampe.

The more impassioned his pleading, the more utterly he held his own emotion in check; the more biting his subtly chosen words, the more courteous his manner; now deadly earnest, now humorously scornful, now graciously argumentative, but always skilfully and designedly convincing.

THE YOUNG LETTER-WRITER Dear Sir, Dear Madam, or Dear Friend, With ease are written at the top; When those two happy words are penn'd, A youthful writer oft will stop, And bite his pen, and lift his eyes, As if he thinks to find in air The wish'd-for following words, or tries To fix his thoughts by fixed stare.

Perhaps he bit a hole and sucked the fruit, and the skin has burst behind.

A kid! There came a dog, who bit the cat, who ate the kid, which my father bought for two pieces of money.

The degree and regularity of development of the middle upper cutting, biting teeth, as distinguished from the grinding molars, the middle and lateral incisors, and the canines offer further guides to the endocrine constitution analysis.

I did not dare to go near him, for he always tried to bite my arms.

It ought to read that said Enoch Appleboy 'well knowing that said dog Andrew was a dangerous and ferocious animal and would, if incited, provoked and encouraged, bite the legs and body of him the said Hermandid then and there feloniously, willfully and wrongfully incite, provoke and encourage the said Andrew, and so forth.'

It may be a dark, cold, horrible day, with cruel, biting wind, or it may be a glorious day, all sunshine and blue skythat will all depend on your answer."

"Bite the tail!" and a large, vague, benevolent, middle-aged man, more desirous than wise, with some struggle got the bushy end of Yarrow's tail into his ample mouth and bit it with all his might.

She paused and bit the end of her pencil, seeking inspiration.

*** "Dogs," says the Acton magistrate, "are not allowed to bite people they dislike."

He looks as if he would love to bite somebody.

263 collocations for  bit