Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth; Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce reared above the parent-earth Thy tender form.

she asked the delegation, with biting sarcasm, "do you not know of the disgraceful happenings in countries cursed by manhood suffrage?

Things had to be freshly served to suit Bill, and his sons dared the wrath of heaven rather than the biting reproaches of the old man.

He began to pace the room again, biting his nether lip, and now and then shooting side glances at Bull, glances partly guilty and partly scornful.

Sirrah, this gentle name was coin'd too late, And shadow'd in the shrouds of biting hate.

"What's this?" exclaimed Uncle John, who had narrowly escaped biting his tongue through and through.

Clinching his fists and biting his lower lip, the young man runs after the fleeing woman.

It is curious that among the conspirators the author should not have introduced the dauntless woman, Epicharis, who refused under the most cruel tortures to betray the names of her accomplices, and after biting out her tongue died from the sufferings that she had endured on the rack.

Miss Priscilla sighed as she spoke, and looked up from her needle-work to watch Anthea who sat biting her pen, and frowning down at the blank sheet of paper before her.

The bronze doors leading to the emperor's apartments were shut and guards posted outside them who demanded extremely definite reasons for admitting any one; even when the centurion's message was delivered some one had to be sent in first to find out whether Marcia was willing, and for nearly half an hour Narcissus waited, biting his lip with impatience.

The dogs laid hold of me at once, tearing my clothes and biting my flesh.

"So!" exclaimed Babson with biting sarcasm.

" This man, Elderberry, who for twelve long years had writhed under the biting lash of his employer's tongue, hating him with a hatred known only to those in subordinate positions who are bribed to suffer the "whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely," quivered and saw red.

See that the person does not injure himself; crowd a pad made from a folded handkerchief or towel between the teeth, to prevent biting of the lips or tongue.

A substance usually sour, sharp, or biting to the taste.

Squabbling about music, carping, and fighting, and biting about it, have in the past done much harm to Trinity Church.

Sounds well, don't it?' 'Yes,' Margaret answered, biting her lip, for she wanted to laugh.

how now, biting your nails? HEU.

I talk of no biting; I say, what's the matter between Olfactus and you? AUD.

Is that drawer in order, Marshal Berthier?' A clean-shaven man, who had stood biting his nails in the window, bowed at the Emperor's question.

Berthier stood biting his nails, while Talleyrand looked at him with a slight raising of his bushy eyebrows.

In his biting satires he breathes still more of the spirit and stile of Juvenal, his third of this book being an imitation of that satirist's eighth, on Family-madness and Pride of Descent; the beginning of which is not translated amiss by our author.

With that queer perversity of human nerves, he kept biting his sore teeth together as he walked along.

(a little like a child's pleased surprise) Out. (DICK stands there, as if unable to get to the doorhis face distorted, biting his hand.) ANTHONY:

In our love of stimulants, and our numbness of taste, which craves the red pepper of a biting vocabulary, we of the present generation are apt to overlook this almost obsolete and unobtrusive quality; but we doubt if, since Chaucer, we have had an example of more purely objective narrative than in "The Courtship of Miles Standish.