A mere pocket in the wall, a machine champing in its plate-glass front.
A face peered down at her from a high chair behind the champing machine.
The horse was tearing up the wet gravel, and making furious champing noises in his impatience of all this delay.
And that made her listen for the champing of the solitary animal in the horse yard, until she heard it, too, and stood still to listen to both noises of the night.
She stood very still, and in her ears the music died away, and through three months of travel and great changes she heard again the night-horse champing in the yard, and the crickets chirping further afield.
They heard the clash of accouterments and the champing of bits from the cavalcade halted outside Alderman Cave's door.
The clang of arms and the champing of bits came to them plainly.
A smart equipage, with champing horses, stood before the entrance.
The champing of the lower jaw will be seen at least twelve hours before the first fit, and will a little while precede every other.
For a time, he was intensely absorbed in the manipulation of the gears, and the brakes, his lower lip clutched tightly between his teeth, breathing in full short gusts like a war horse champing for battle.
A divorce," he raged, champing wildly up and down the small room.
It scurried towards me, champing its noisy lips, and beating the water into spray with its flippers.
The beasts surged up to us with champing jaws, and all the shipmen stood armed on their defence.
There is no sound of hoof--no voice of woman--nothing, except the champing of bitts heard close by their side!
There was a sound, as of horses champingtheir bitts, and the occasional striking of a hoof.
Had Stoutenburg been less blind and deaf to aught save to his own hatred and his own fury, he would have heard not many paces away, the sound of horses' hoofs upon the hard ground, the champing of bits, the jingle of harness.
Along it were tethered the horses, a few impatiently champing their bits and pounding with their hoofs on the trampled ground, but the majority resting quietly, their heads hanging sleepily down.
Under the sheds many horses were champing at their oats and corn.
There was a three-mile trolley line champing its bit in the environs; and me and Idaho spent a week riding on one of the cars, dropping off at nights at the Sunset View Hotel.
Directly the heavy tramp of horses was heard, the rattling of rings and the champing of bits.
And I heard horses champing their bits just as I came up to the fence,” Clay went on.
As he approached the uncared for fence which surrounded the field, he heard horses stamping and champing at their bits in the woods not far away to his left.
Without, I could hear the horses of the waiting troop champingrestlessly at their bits, and now and again the low gentling words of the riders.
Twas while I was listening to the champing horses that I heard my name whispered in the darkness beyond the open casement; I turned slowly, and the nearest of the soldier watchers began to edge his way toward my window.
She heard low voices, the champing of bits and thumping of hoofs, and she recognized Stewart when he led up Majesty for her to mount.
And he looked into the Arab's face, lost in wonderment, seeing a picturesque cavalcade going forth, all the horses beautiful, champing at their bits.
Still confused, Dell finally appealed to his horse, and within a few minutes Dog-toe was in a road and champing the bits against restraint.
The air was full of those sounds that denote the presence of many horses and of many men; there was, too, the clinking of metal, the champing of steel bits, the brief words of command which proclaimed the men to be soldiers.
As in a dream Crystal heard the bustle incident on a number of men getting to horse: in the gloom she saw vague forms moving about hurriedly, she heard the champing of bits, the clatter of stirrup and bridle.
Directly after, we caught sight of the great roan horse at the door champing its bit, and sending flakes of foam flying over its glossy coat, and I noticed even then that one white spot fell on the groom's dark brown coat.
I approached to a distance of fifty yards, then the largest brownie began champing his jaws and growling; then he 'pinned back his ears' preparing to come at me.
A little brush intervened and she could not locate us plainly for we could see her eyes wander in search of us; but her trembling muscles, the vicious champing of her jaws, and the guttural growls, all spoke of immediate attack.
At the end of the awning-covered passage the carriage lamps burned dimly, and she could hear the restless champing of bits.
Sleek horses and polished brass, neat liveries and shining panels, bright gowns and gay parasols, moved in seemingly endless succession to the accompanying music of champing bits and the restless pawing of countless hoofs.
So saying, the old man pointed to a noble courser, champing his bit proudly, among the other horses.
The animal, pawing the sand, and champing his bit, appeared to comprehend the words of his master, and remained in the place where he had been left.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "champing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
