She was gnawing happily at the core when Lofty John came in.
"I can't think of anything to start with," he said, gnawing his penholder fiercely.
I don't propose to wear MY teeth out gnawing files.
"It's you as can't let people alone, but must be gnawing at 'em forever.
And now you see the reason why Our Peter has been ill: He soothes his soul with pigeon-pie His gnawing grief to kill.
But he kept on gnawing and eating away, so fine did it taste, until, in a little while if he hadn't eaten a hole right into the cabbage and he found himself inside, just like the mousie in the loaf of bread!
He found it rather difficult, gnawing chips out of the tree and smiling at the same time.
Then Brownie Beaver would stop his gnawing and look all about, to pick out a place where he wanted the tree to fall.
" Tom's fearful secret and gnawing conscience disturbed his sleep for as much as a week after this; and at breakfast one morning Sid said: "Tom, you pitch around and talk in your sleep so much that you keep me awake half the time.
We don't want to ruin the mood by slurping up spaghetti, gnawing on a piece of sushi, or stabbing ourselves in the eye with a tricky kabab stick.
Three short years went by,and a day came when the man sat shivering in a mean garret;and he was gaunt and wan and hollow-eyed,and clothed in rags;and he was gnawing a dry crust and mumbling:"Curse all the world's gifts for mockeries and gilded lies!
" Three short years went by,and a day came when the man sat shivering in a mean garret;and he was gaunt and wan and hollow-eyed,and clothed in rags;and he was gnawing a dry crust and mumbling:"Curse all the world's gifts for mockeries and gilded lies!
It is gnawing at its chain day and night?
Some of it would arguably give Douglas Adams a run for his money, as the creator of the Vogons, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and its Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning, during a recital of which "four of the audience members died of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived only by gnawing one of his own legs off", according to the book.
But when it comes to first impressions, gnawing on BBQ ribs is far from alluring.
" Three short years went by,and a day came when the man sat shivering in a mean garret;and he was gaunt and wan and hollow-eyed,and clothed in rags;and he was gnawing a dry crust and mumbling:"Curse all the world's gifts for mockeries and gilded lies!
fez and Khayyám, gnawing my nails down to the cuticles, writing stories.
The black and white giant panda thenstarted gnawing on the bamboo branch - a staple in the bears' diet.
" Three short years went by,and a day came when the man sat shivering in a mean garret;and he was gaunt and wan and hollow-eyed,and clothed in rags;and he was gnawing a dry crust and mumbling:"Curse all the world's gifts for mockeries and gilded lies!
" Three short years went by, and a day came when the man sat shivering in a mean garret; and he was gaunt and wan and hollow-eyed, and clothed in rags; and he was gnawing a dry crust and mumbling:"Curse all the world's gifts for mockeries and gilded lies!
