XV JASPER JAY'S STORY After the blinding flash of light and the queer click had sent Brownie Beaver hurrying home from his partly gnawed tree, he stayed in his house for a long time before he ventured out again.
Something had interrupted him and he had left the tree not quite gnawed through and needing only a few more bites to bring it down.
In order to make no mistake, he put aside a stick in which he gnawed a notch each day.
And as he gnawed, he slowly sidled round and round the tree, until at last only the heart of the tree was left to keep the tree from toppling over.
They all seemed depressed; and Hauser had brought an old spelling-book with gnawed edges, which he held wide-open on his knee, with his great spectacles askew.
He went up to him, and soon gnawed away the ropes.
" Then she was silent, but the desire in her heart was not stilled, but gnawed there and tormented her, and let her have no rest.
Running to one of the great ropes that bound him, she gnawed it until it parted, and soon the Lion was free.
He went up to him, and soon gnawed away the ropes.
Her husband, a cigar aficionado, was reported to have gnawed on unlit cigars instead.
In a scene now familiar to me, sinners were depicted being punished in hell — in this version, for example, hanging from trees over a pit of fire as rats gnawed on the ropes.
" He'd not got the words out of his mouth before the mountain was swarming with rats from top to bottom They dug and gnawed and clawed, while the mountain dwindled and dwindled and dwindled Next morning Fairy Sibiana was awakened by the first rays of sun streaming into her room "congratulations!
Alone holding an oil-paper umbrella, I wander along a long Solitary lane in the rain, Hoping to encounter A girl like a bouquet of lilacs Gnawed by anxiety and resentment.
He went up to him, and soon gnawed away the ropes.
They all seemed depressed; and Hauser had brought an old spelling-book with gnawed edges, which he held wide-open on his knee, with his great spectacles askew.
"Dear cousin," says he, "you see what an unfortunate accident has befallen me here, and all upon your account: for, as I was creeping through yonder hedge, in my way homeward, I heard you crow, and was resolved to ask you how you did before I went any farther; but I met with this disaster; and therefore now I must ask you for a knife to cut this string; or, at least, to conceal my misfortune till I have gnawed it asunder.
The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came up and gnawed the rope with his teeth, and, setting him free, exclaimed: "You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, not expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; but now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on a Lion.
But on the sixth day, hunger made itself felt again and gnawed him almost to the heart.
The people complained bitterly of the plague, the king himself in his palace did not know how to protect himself against them, mice squeaked in every corner, and gnawed whatever they could lay hold of with their teeth.
The people complained bitterly of the plague, the king himself in his palace did not know how to protect himself against them, mice squeaked in every corner, and gnawed whatever they could lay hold of with their teeth.
