In a trice Tressidar nipped through and was by the midshipman's side.
At any rate, the 'Heracles' nipped some awkward little plot in the bud.
All around the drift ice floated in compact masses, until there was danger of the boat being nipped between the enormous floes as they ground in the long swell.
But the economic disaster of the panic nipped it in the bud just as it cut off the life of the overwhelming majority of the existing labor organizations.
The boy raised a shout and scampered away to Sir Willoughby, at the appearance of whom Clara felt herself nipped and curling inward.
Mrs. Mountstuart preserved a lengthened silence, but nipped Clara's fingers once or twice to reassure her without approving.
When ice is forming on the lake it is always doubtful whether the steamer can cross with safety, and she is probably laid up for the winter sooner than is really necessary, from fear of being nipped by ice.
They may be nipped between two fields and no damage be done, as there is nothing for the ice to get hold of.
The conquests which they proposed to themselves included some of the very ports which were then being opened on the river, an event which would have nipped the root of that new development of trade.
He got a bit quiet, though, arter a time, and then Billy nipped him at the back o' the head and put him in his pocket.
Why, if it hadn't been for me, you'd ha' been nipped fast there.
James started as he nippedinto the shop entrance, and found her confronting him.
She was thin and nipped and wistful looking, about forty-two years old.
At last they ran up between buildings nipped between high rock-faces, and out into a little market-place, the crown of the pass.
He bent forward as he walked, and still nipped along hurriedly, as if pursued by fate.
He nipped in to eat his supper, and started out again with a mouthful the moment he heard the ping of the bell.
Off they went, the two leading dogs pulling the wolf along from in front, while the sled-dog nipped him from behind and encouraged him to go ahead.
Another way to try for a fox that has been nipped in a trap and yet has got away is to take into account the strange fact that the animal will surely come back to investigate the source of the trouble.
The following is his amiable conclusion:-- "The villains have nippedour fairest hopes in the bud.
Campbell instantly despatched messengers to Sir Jeffrey Amherst, and the commanding officers of the different forts; and, by this timely discovery, the conspiracy was nipped in the bud.
Accidentally he nipped the wolf, which emitted a yelping bark, leaped several feet in the air, then limped into the woods, as he had learned enough of the interesting stranger.
Jennie was the most disappointed of the three, for she had counted upon an adventure worth the telling, and here it was nipped in the bud.
If Mrs. Julia Burdett Parslow is not up to time with the hot air, how shall our 'Girlhood' escape being nipped in the bud?
What would Horatius have done if somebody had nipped him by the ear when he was holding the bridge?
He was proud of the rheumatic old hound, and a night like this nipped his pride as the first frosts nip the lima-beans.
Had you happened under the trees just before daybreak, you would have seen a possum climbing about in the highest branches, where the frost had most keenly nipped the fruit.
I nipped a bit out of that eagle's mouth pretty neatly, Wendy.
The early winter night, which surrounded them with muffling cold, pierced the heavy blankets round Swickey and nipped the cheeks and fingers of the two men.
Now and then he pulled down tender poplar shoots and nipped the ends off.
And now Miki barked at him gruffly two or three times, and nipped at one of his ears.
Experience told him that she was dead to the world for hours to come, unless he tickled her foot or nipped her ear, and then she would only rouse herself enough to growl at him.
Then he muzzled her jowl, butted his nose under her neck, and at last nipped her ear--always his last resort in the awakening process.
Nodding, he nipped off a few leaves, then leveled the long Colt, aiming at the nearest man.
And this effectually nipped in the bud Arethusa's faint little effort to have her own way.
But it would have been nipped effectually sooner or later, for no one ever dreamed of standing up for long against Miss Eliza, or of being so rash as to contemplate such as actual disobedience.
Somehow or other--maybe I nipped the wick too hard--the candle went out, and down fell the lantern.
Once his ship had been nipped by the ice, whirled helplessly against an iceberg, when he alone with two companions escaped the destruction which overwhelmed her.
Of this dominion the Romans had then taken over but a small part, and of that part they had nipped the bud.
I dare say, if he had told me his doubts at the first I could have nipped them in the bud.
Frosts had nipped the surface of things lightly a score of times but had not yet struck deep.
The bullet had nippedin and out, splintering a rib, and lay just beneath the skin.
You might tell her the blizzard nipped all the flowers in the bud, Carol.
The boys laughed and Ernest held out his slate pencil which the parrot nipped fiercely.
In one of them, La Fonda de Paris, I was nipped by a scorpion, and that hotel is consequently bound up, as far as I am concerned, with very unpleasant associations.
The Cuban gentleman nipped my finger, caused me awful agony, the arm swelling up to twice its size; but I had no fever, neither was I obliged to seek my bed.
If the ship isnipped in the ice, the ship's company (eighteen hands) will take to four sledges with one month's rations and make for nearest land.
After we had settled at Ocean Camp she still remained nippedby the ice, only her stern showing and her bows overridden and buried by the relentless pack.
Floes on port side pushed stern on to ice (of floe); floes then closed in and nipped the ship fore and aft.
She has been nipped with a million-ton pressure and risen nobly, falling clear of the water out on the ice.
