When the leaves have been browsed, the stem next loses its cuticle, thanks to the nibbling of the grub, and is reduced to a ragged distaff.
A female Cantharides is peacefully nibbling her leaf.
Short as it is, the female, her appetite undisturbed by the passionate protestations of her wooer, imperturbably resumes the nibbling of her leaf.
I remember a day or two ago when I was trying if it would do to tie my handkerchief on to Polly's cage, he was nibbling some paper.
He's very fond of nibbling paper, and it doesn't hurt him, for he doesn't eat it.
As we approached it cautiously, we caught sight of several beavers running about on the banks of the stream, some nibbling away at the trunks of saplings and small trees which they were engaged in felling.
Sometimes I would catch them at their supper, nibbling away at the nuts which they had plucked, or had dug out of the ground with their sharp little paws.
Through the meal to the point where Donald lay on his back at the far curve of the canyon wall, nibbling a piece of cactus candy, everything had been perfect.
Where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatched with stover them to keep.
Instead of returning a full answer to my book, he manifestly falls a- nibbling at one single passage.
Beside him, tied to a palm, knelt the camels, and before him, nibbling a last tangerine, Arlee was sitting.
Then he looked up and saw a most modern figure in white across the table, nibbling a cress sandwich, and laughing at some jest of the Englishman's.
In a few days they had put on virile togas of white fur, and were scrambling about the cage and nibbling their food as independently as their elders.
The sheep nibbling on its summit cast long shadows down the hill almost to his feet.
Gabrielle was finishing breakfast with a friend of hers, a short, skinny woman of dark complexion, with a pointed chin like a mouse which when speaking seemed always to be nibbling at something.
We never wearied watching them, especially when the hazel-nuts were ripe and the little fellows were sitting on the rails nibbling and handling them like tree-squirrels.
Nibbling bit, nibbling bit, may the land in awe for.
But this did not stop her from nibblingat a bar of chocolate and smearing her round face.
The woods were quite quiet but for the trickling of the little stream near at hand, and even the nibbling of the rabbit in the brambles was plainly audible.
She was very hungry, and once her little teeth learned the knack of nibbling criss-cross up a blade, she found that it was pleasanter than her previous attempts had led her to believe.
But the senses of a fox are very keen, and above the murmur of the river over its pebbles, Vix could hear eager lips snatching and nibbling at the coarse grass, and many feet splashing in the dew.
The quarry, nervously nibbling at the open grass, was outside striking distance.
She goes on nibbling around the original attacking-point.
They then nibbled away, laughing and nibbling awhile until their teeth seemed to be sore.
But the frozen meat at which we had been nibbling was soon thrown aside for hot coffee, steaming stew, and thawed blubber.
How closely sheep bite," exclaimed Miss Laura, pointing to one that was nibbling almost at his master's feet.
He could see her teeth set to nibbling at her lips.
Lying there nibbling chocolate and smoking a cigarette, she luxuriated in the weariness which had stilled her dreadful restlessness.
Pierson took the glass, and sat there nibbling and sipping.
While Violet stood wondering thus, she saw a squirrel on the fence, nibbling upon a nut.
As soon as she stirred, he darted along a rail or two, and then, waiting till she came up with him, went nibbling again.
The second blow was delivered in the area southwest of Soissons, where the French had been "nibbling away" for some days with satisfactory results.
During these momentous days on the British battle front the French had been nibbling away at the German positions around Verdun and along the Aisne and Meuse Rivers.
He had run into a big bunch of bats sleeping in the abandoned sewer, and his nibbling at them had alarmed and angered them.
As it didn't move, and was perfectly noiseless, Bumper concluded that it was harmless, and so he approached it and after sniffing at it begannibbling the lower part.
You were nibbling at one when I first noticed you," Henrietta Hen insisted.
And turning a cold shoulder on Henrietta Hen he began nibbling at a cabbage-leaf once more.
