" So Buddy Pigg began to gnaw at the cabbage and, as he had very good teeth for gnawing—almost as good as Sammy Littletail's—he soon had quite a hole made.
Why shouldn't he gnaw right through the tree?
And he began once more to gnaw at it.
He began to gnaw at it once more.
After he had removed the band of bark Brownie began to gnaw away chips of wood, where the white showed.
For if you had enormous, strong, sharp teeth—with which you could gnaw right through a tree—he would not care to have you seize him as he poked his head around a corner in a dark passage of a strange house.
Whereas at 25 you'd steam, fume and gnaw your teeth because your boss is now telling you "we should do X" – the very X you were trying to convince him to do months ago, because a coworker speaks over you in meetings and aggressively tries to take over your area of expertise…now you just don't care.
This means a quick gnaw to real gold would actually leave an indentation.
Whereas at 25 you'd steam, fume and gnaw your teeth because your boss is now telling you "we should do X" – the very X you were trying to convince him to do months ago, because a coworker speaks over you in meetings and aggressively tries to take over your area of expertise…now you just don't care.
And as he thought it came to gnaw at it, he drew his sword and said, "As long as I live, thou shalt not touch her," and hewed the snake in three pieces.
"Now you have got what you want," said he; "and we can gnaw at a bare bone again.
Now you have got what you want, said he, and we can gnaw at a bare bone again.
And as he thought it came to gnaw at it, he drew his sword and said, as long as I live, you shall not touch her, and hewed the snake in three pieces.
Then a soft voice cried from the parlor - nibble, nibble, gnaw who is nibbling at my little house.
"They are lovers," he replied; "they will go and live in the same kennel by-and-by, and gnaw at the same bone.