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.
' 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.
And she had more real cause for fear than they have, for I might have gnawed through the tree on which her life depended.
The worms have gnawed the gilded wood, the spider has spun her web from the crown down to the sand, like a mourning banner, frail and transient as the grief of mortals.
" so they assembled together in the water, round the green stalk which held the leaf on which the little maiden stood, and gnawed it away at the root with their teeth.
