" It was like Aunt Kipp to invite her poor relations to go and "nip their own noses off," as she elegantly expressed it.

Héloise nipped my arm to tell me to talk, so of course everything went out of my head, and I could only think of "Oui, monsieur."

They affected him like the presence of delicate china, and yet he could hold a baby deftly as an elephant can nip up a flower; and to see him turn over the pages of a delicate édition de luxe was a lesson in tenderness.

King Frost was abroad, nipping toes and ears, hanging icicles on the eaves of houses, and decorating the forest trees with glittering pendants.

But Jarro, who asked for nothing but to be let die in peace, gathered his last powers and nipped the farm-hand in the finger, so he should let go of him.

We'd find their tracks and places where they'd been nipping off the ends of branches and twigs, and follow them up.

At the report of my rifle Stereke bit himself clear from Nikolai, who was holding him, and at once made for the bear, which he tackled in a most encouraging manner, nipping his heels, and then quickly getting out of the way as the bear charged.

The trail keeps getting fresher and by and by the game is in sight, and the dogs are nipping its hind legs, if it is a bear, or chewing big words if it is an opposing candidate, and nipping him in exposed places.

Fall nipped the air, and it felt crisp to the skin.

Forbear thou therefore all these needless tears, That nip the blossoms of thy beauty's pride.

Thou art that Winter-storm that nips my Bud; All my young springing Hopes, my gay Desires, The prospect of approaching Joys of Love, Thou in a hapless Minute hast took from me, And in its room, Hast given me an eternal Desperation.

I noticed my horse occasionally nipped a bunch and ate them, which seemed to me almost as heartless as to tread them under foot.

He yelled to William, and William nipped the nearest burro into a shambling half trot, and then went out upon the lake, Casey heading across at the widest part so that he would strike his old trail to Starvation Mountain on the other side.

Old Jim got so angry whenever Jenkins touched me, that he ran up behind and nipped his calves, to make him turn on him.

Shoop's bullet had nipped the cigar in two before they had realized that he intended to shoot.

ha! 'tis nipping cold.

He had nearly reached the limit of the farm, and entered his neck of woods, when the breathing of a cow trying to nip some comfort from the frosty sod delighted his ear.

It was Blair's way of nipping conceit in the bud.

"Yes," pursued Frank, reflectively, "and if we wanted any more evidence that we nipped a conspiracy to seize the vessel in the bud, there it is in their anger at being paid for not working.

he barked, and he jumped on that bad dog, and nipped both his ears well, let me tell you.

"For the life of me I don't know," replied Jean, as calmly as though a bullet had not nipped the edge of his ear a moment before.

Does this ultra-Spartan system of "drilling the nerves" strike the modern pedagogist with horror and doubtdoubt whether the tendency would not be brutalizing, nipping in the bud the tender emotions of the heart?

Loulou, having thrust his head into the butcher-boy's basket, received a slap, and from that time he always tried to nip his enemy.

He says that the difficulty was to get on with the shipbuilding programme without giving Great Britain an opportunity to intervene by force and nip the enterprise in the bud.

Most kinds are rapid and luxurious growers, and it is necessary to pay them constant attention in pruning or nipping the extremities of the shoots, or they will soon become ill-formed and straggling.