630 examples of gnaw in sentences

By means of their powerful teeth and claws they can gnaw and tear open almost any hive conveniently accessible.

The squirrels, leaving their accustomed feeding-grounds, betook themselves to the leafy oaks to gnaw out the acorn stores of the provident woodpeckers, but the latter kept up a vigilant watch upon their movements.

While, across the Channel, Charles Stuart was listening to his doom, Paris was gay in the midst of dangers, Madame de Longueville was receiving her gallants in mimic court at the Hôtel de Ville, De Retz was wearing his sword-belt over his archbishop's gown, the little hunchback Conti was generalissimo, and the starving people were pillaging Mazarin's library, in joke, "to find something to gnaw upon.

Vile worms, that gnaw and waste away the treasures most secure!

A feeling of guilt began to gnaw at him.

The waters pushed out cut deeper channels, gnaw off the edges of the solid earth.

[150] 555 Close on the remnant of their weary way; While they are drawing toward the sacred floor Where, so they fondly think, the worm shall gnaw no more.

For ye are drawing tow'rd that sacred floor, Where the charmed worm of pain shall gnaw no more.

I began to gnaw it and play with it, and when Ned called out, "Fetch it," I dropped it and ran toward him.

All conspirators resemble rats that gnaw and run, until one rat at last discovers himself Caesar of the herd by accident.

An excellent lecture may be made upon his body; for he is a kind of dead carcasecreditors, lawyers, and jailors devour it: creditors peck out his eyes with his own tears; lawyers flay off his own skin, and lap him in parchment; and jailors are the Promethean vultures that gnaw his very heart.

If people do not put their candles in a proper place the mice will gnaw them.

There is a feeling called remorse that can gnaw like a sharp little tooth.

Costly viands will please his taste, but unappeased hunger will gnaw at his soul.

They love to gnaw it off the cob, and chew it, just as you chew popcorn.

The master of the rats and mice, Of flies and frogs, of bugs and lice, Commands thy presence; without fear Come forth and gnaw the threshold here, Where he with oil has smear'd it.

He did not see himself at all, but worked away at his desk in the foggy room, checking the unconsidered or inaccurate or oversimplified statements of others, writing his own section of the Notes of the Week, with his careful, patient, fined brilliance, stopping to gnaw his pen or his thumb-nail or to draw diagrams, triangle within triangle, or circle intersecting circle, on his blotting paper.

A momentary lull had followed the storm of the election, when Mr. Jefferson boldly threw down another "bone for the Federalists to gnaw.

list, as I growl and groan: Here is the sullen shore where the white-toothed breakers moan; Where the silky ripples run with the wolf-like wave behind, To leap on the struggling wreck and worry and gnaw and grind, To toss on the cruel crag the dead with his streaming hair!

As long as you live I will gnaw at you like a worm, for you deserve it for your villany.

What though you tell me that prompt apoplexy Grins o'er the glories of Lord Mayor's Day, 'Tis better, my boy, than blue devils to vex ye, Or ling'ring consumption to gnaw you away.

GRAFTON, C. W. The rat began to gnaw the rope.

Having no teeth to gnaw and crack them open as squirrels do, he takes a nut in his claws and either holding it thus, or jamming it tight into a crack in the bark, then uses his bill for a hatchet to split or hack the nut open.

The little foxes, in their desire to escape, sometimes tried to gnaw the bars of their traps; but the cold was so intense, that their tongues froze to the iron, and so their captors had to kill them, to release them from their misery, for they were never wantonly destroyed.

So he said they would leave him in the yard to gnaw his bone, and that then he would probably go away.

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