Blue has bad teeth and was still gnawing at the meat, and therefore had not been to the water, which causes almost instant death in cases of poisoning by wolf meat.
Up and down I stumped, gnawingmy biscuit and sipping my sweet country milk.
At this time anxiety about money matters must have begun its gnawing in my poor father's brains.
But all was silent; and comforting myself with the belief that if the noise was heard it might be taken for the gnawing of a rat, I listened and watched the stars.
They are called the rodents or gnawers (Glires) because of their well-known gnawing powers and proclivities.
There are only two incisor teeth in each jaw (rarely four in the upper jaw), and these teeth grow continuously and are kept sharp and of uniform length by the gnawing on hard substances and the constant rubbing on each other.
I did think of setting to and gnawing through them canes last night; but they would only have tied them up again, and tighter too.
He felt a strange gnawing at his heart and he slowly raised his eyes to her, eagerly drinking in her radiant beauty, a beauty wonderful to him, for never before had he seen a beautiful woman.
First one, and then another, became restless; a gnawing pain devoured their stomachs; an insatiable thirst consumed them; and then the first painful wail was heard that proclaimed the poison at its work.
It sometimes does much damage by gnawing the bark of young fruit-trees.
If, when not in his winter's sleep, he should stop gnawing something hard for a week or two, his teeth would become so long that he could not use them again.
He lives upon nuts, and his teeth are for gnawing through the hard shell, to get at the kernel inside.
The hare is sometimes tamed, and it soon learns to know its friends; but it is a troublesome pet, as it gnaws the legs of the chairs and tables, and destroys the trees in the yard by gnawing off the bark near the roots.
They are great pests in the house, running about in the walls, gnawingthrough the ceilings, and destroying food and clothing.
The teeth of the squirrel grow, and he wears them off by gnawing nuts.
But I declare he is coming nearer and nearer every minute to that old rat, who is so busy gnawing his root.
While he was in the air the weasel had killed the kite by gnawing a great hole in his side.
That their very hours seemed serpentsgnawing at his heart and brain.
If it is true that our rich care for nothing but their ease, and our poor have no thought beyond their daily needs, it is due to the fact that the canker of selfishness is gnawing at the heart of the nation.
Why, I, even I, who refuse to believe that the American workingman is past answering the call of a difficult ideal, no matter what privations aregnawing at his vitals.
The eyes especially recalled her, I liked being nice to him; and at the same time an aching sadness was gnawing at my heart.
A flower-garden had been laid out before the window, and in the very middle bed, under a rose-bush, lay Mumu busily gnawing a bone.
Kit, picking a blade of grass and gnawing it in his desperation.
This, we think, will keep starvation from gnawing at you till the hour of release, which is seven o'clock, when we hope the Doctor will have given up waiting for you.
Be sure of this, that every transgression and disobedience acts immediately upon the conscience of the doer, sometimes to stir that conscience into agonies of gnawing remorse, more often to lull it into a fatal slumber.
When he thought of the past, he felt that the gnawing worm was for ever destined to prey upon his heart.
O, on my young breast she flung the chilling, life-gnawing viper.
A sweet gnawing consumed away my heart as if to death, and all was so near to me and so dear!
Oh, the longing, that eternal gnawing toothache, to which Frau Jula had referred; how well she knew what it was now!
The gloomy, extravagant, fanatical temperament of the Gayosos had been increased by the incessant gnawing of remorse, his imagination was distorted, his slight activity enervated, and his whole existence darkened.
I could not touch a morsel of food, and it was just as if I had a fox continually gnawing at my inside.
The young engineer went slowly down the long corridor, apprehension gnawing at his heart.
There would be men to release him from the torture of aching muscles and gnawing stomach.
If there were any remorse under his quiet, or impatience at fate, or gnawing homesickness, he did not show it.
They tried constantly to make their escape by gnawing at the floor, but in vain.
How he used to sit in his chair, with his fat legs in his red trousers, wide apart, his hands on his knees, and his elbows stuck, rolling his great eyes and gnawing his white moustache.
For fifteen years I have felt death assail me as if I bore within me some gnawing beast.
He was satisfied, and rubbed his hands, for he had found a good trick to annoy his wife and gratify the obscure rancor, the undefined and gnawing jealousy born in him since their drive in the Bois.
Scores of sharp little incisor teeth are forever busy gnawing and cutting away the tender grass and sprouting weeds in long meandering paths or trails through the meadows.
