For example, in bitter winter weather most of the birds would hug the sheltered hollows, where they found coverts in the copses, and would avoid the hilltops, which were exposed to the nipping winds blowing from the western prairies.
An intellectual Goliah of Gath might spear them with an epigram like unto a weaver's beam, and the sting thereof would be as but the nipping of a red ant.
Lo, there is a gun before him, and the shade of a stately stag nipping the phantom of a youthful hazel.
Schmitz had to wait a long while in the nipping air, but his blood bounded tumultuously through his veins; for his revenge, longed for with all his heart, was close at hand.
I was careful, and lifting the skirt of my alpaca dress between my thumb and finger, gave a nipping jump, and cleared a gutter that ran between Cousin D.
As he stumbled in the gloom something whizzed like the rush of a cobra's head past his temple, nipping his hat and striking the opposite wall with force enough to kill two or three men.
But how fierce the wind had grown, and how nipping was the air!
The fresh, nipping air blew on the girl's heated temples and swollen eyes.
But at last he had dragged her up the hill, through the fields close to the house, where the lambs were huddling in the nipping dawn beside their mothers, and into the farmyard.
There are some great dresses on those people,” said Maire a Glan, nipping Dermod Flynn on the thigh with her finger and thumb.
Ye are droll, Dermod,” said Maire a Glan, nipping the boy’s thigh again.
I speak not for my own sake--though the saints know it is hard to keep a stout heart over a nipping belly--but for my men, for the whole host.
So they held the prisoner fast, and led him to the brooklet, nippinghis throat tightly to choke an outcry.
As is shown in the engraving, the lateral incisors, at this age, touch, but nevertheless do not meet so as to be of any service in nipping the food.
The horses' sides throbbed frightfully, the keen winds made a halt for overcoats necessary, and the scramble over these steep rocks is a fearful thing in a nipping sunset breeze.
There they stood dozing in the summer sunshine, twitching their tails and nippingeach other occasionally.
Though the snow was still falling and a nipping wind blowing, thousands of the crowds that now perambulated the streets stood bareheaded in the blast as each procession passed.
It was a fair view from the window, but inside ten times as fair, without the chance of adverse weather nipping hope and bright content.
In the morning, however, there was no fault to find with him, as soon as he had done a good hour’s work in the deep snow and the nipping wind, and improved his circulation by convincing everybody that he was still as young as he ever was.
Frick, and his hand nipping the jacket-end fell nerveless to his side.
Well, he shan't get away," said Frick decidedly, nipping up the end of the jacket nearest to him.
It was strange, perhaps, that Glory should miss the chance of proving his master a liar, but he nevertheless ambled decorously to Dry Lake and did nothing more unseemly than nipping occasionally at the neck of the little gray.
Someone coming in chilled with the nipping night air had shoveled in coal with lavish hand, so that the stove door had to be thrown open as the readiest method of keeping the stove from melting where it stood.
They had always been afraid of Lop Ear, with his nipping and yapping around the cattle.
It was but a matter of following the trail, and he would be nipping at their heels and driving them back to the Farm.
A nipping wind came down across the darkening firs ashore, but there was no doubt that it had fallen somewhat, and he resigned himself when Vane began to pull the tiers off the mainsail.
The day was cold; the man, who was compelled to sit almost still in a nipping wind, was soon wet through, but this in some curious way further tended to restore his accustomed optimism and good-humour.
It was with this pale fancy to keep them company that Herrick and Stanley let out their car along the road again, this time in a dryly nipping air and under a troubled, scudding moon.
But her complainings were ineffectual, for we can no more scold people into loving us than nature could make buds blossom by dailynipping them with frost.
She forgot all about him before his wagon turned the corner of the road, and chatted away to Malcom, questioning and nipping with increasing zest.
On now nipping a tentacle, pulling the manubrium, or irritating the bell, a single locomotor contraction is given in answer to every stimulation.
After locomotor contractions can no longer be elicited by stimuli, nipping a tentacle or the margin of the bell has the effect of causing the manubrium to contract.
In the course of a few minutes, however, peripheral irritability returned, as shown by responses to nipping of the neuro-muscular sheet.
After it ceases it may often be made to recommence, either by adding a few more drops of acid to the sea-water, or by supplying an additional stimulus to the bell by nipping it with the forceps.
I now stimulated the poisoned half by nipping a portion of its margin with the forceps.
Again, the cases are put over the bottles, and again they are raised, but by nipping both the cases, the bottles are lifted with them, and now only the two glasses appear.
Some excuse is now invented for changing the cases, and in doing this by nipping the one over the bottle the tin case is lifted off with it (as in Fig.
