Sorel was a clumsy little beast of a cheery and indeed puppyish disposition; Kasper was fierce, the largest of the five, even in his play he would always bite, and gave his godfather many a sharp nip as time went on.

As long as I would eventually furnish forth the common banquet, it mattered not which dog took the first nip.

" Here both the worthies, "freshened the nip," as Captain Truck called it, and then the conversation soon got to be too philosophical and contemplative for this unpretending record of events and ideas.

I am told that Wigan was one of the firstif not the very firstof the towns of Lancashire to feel the nip of our present distress.

Would you like a little nip of whiskey, sir, to keep the damp out?"

It might force the schooner altogether on the inner field, driving the vessel before it, as an avalanche of mud in the Alps is known to force cottages and hamlets in its front; but it could no longer 'nip' it.

In Boston they tried to suppress this vegetable, but, if you followed your par to a store and heard him order a cracker, you could smell par's nip.

I will be sworn his very heart-string nips.

We were trying nose nips and face guards, marching head to wind all day.

Here then the Sergeant was left, after being accorded another nip from the flaskwhich, however, Neddy kept in his own hands this timeand a whispered but vigorously worded exhortation to keep up his courage.

It was into trenches half filled with water that the new men were goingFrenchmen trundling over to the bar in big overcoats, with their air of good little boy, to go galloping back with a bottle of red wine and a long loaf of bread; Englishmen, noisy, laughing, trying to talk French with their fingers and wanting a nip of brandy or hot water for their tea.

The air contained a nip of frost.

Among the mild varieties of this article may be mentioned benzine, camphene and kerosene; the next strongest kind is called Jersey lightning; but, if you desire par's nips in their most luxuriant form, go to Water street and try the species known as "rot-gut.