The instant it is checked or the lead touches bottom, the back strain nips the line, and indicates the vertical depth that the lead has descended.
One rove through the knee of the bitts, which nips the cable on the bight: it consists of four or five fathoms of rope tailed out nipper fashion at one end, and clench-knotted at the other.
The next morning we heard that Nips was in the surgeon's hands, with a bad wound in the fleshy part of his leg, and that the auger had NOT struck claret.
We trifle with the tide of fortune which too often nipsus in the bud and casts the dark shadow of misfortune over the bright lexicon of youth!
He told me to tell you not to worry about him, that if the Nips get on his trail he'll play the same trick on them he used to play on you.
Seems I do remember hearing something about the nervy little Nips slipping into Sydney harbor.
Then you jest nips round to Fenton Street an' leaves the rest to me.
Last night the ice became slack enough to afford some prospect of release, so we charged the nips vigorously, and steamed away through devious openings towards Cape Fanshawe.
The latest development is the duplex comber, which makes the extraordinarily large number of one hundred and twenty nips per minute, as compared with about eighty-five nips per minute for the modern single nip comber.
But whether or no she discerned it lurking behind his surreptitious glances, she afforded no opportunity, and what can a man do against a fate that nips every approach to the tender with nasty medicine or chill phrase--"You are not to talk.
Get all het up at meetings, blossom with grace, then comes the backsliding, the frost, an' nips the leafage.
Let’s go home before the Nips send out a flock of Zeros to shoot us up.
We’ve wiped out an air base from which the Nips could have raided Queensland, Port Moresby, and any of our northeast airports with equal ease.
Those Nips haven’t a chance, even if they’re lucky enough to shoot down a plane or two,” Hap Newton observed.
I've no spirit to stop it," he muttered, "though itnips me horribly.
I've seen that same face of hers scores of times since, and though it makes me shudder, and nips me to the heart, I always go and have a good long earnest look at it, and come away a better man.
I sees there aren't no back door to the place, and I knows from that that he'd have to come out the same way as he went in, so off I nipsover to the other side of the street and lays in wait for him.
He cocks his unwinking eye up at the retreating fork, expecting to see large, squirming worms dropping from it, and Greedy nips in under his nose and gobbles a waggling beauty.
Then, certain that the coast is clear, he nips down and taps upon one of the hives with his beak.
Until the squeezer nips your scrag, Booze and the blowens cop the lot.
But I nips half-way upstairs after him, and sees him open the door with his latch-key, and then I nips down again.
When the squirrel eats a nut, he takes it in his paws, sits up straight, with his tail curled over his back, and nips off the shell in little bites, turning it about as easily as we could with our hands.
There sits the lady, Folding up the clothes; In comes a blackbird, And nips off her nose!
She pressed close to Breed's side and whirled to snap at any coyote who attempted to wedge between them, but her suspicions subsided as she found that thesenips were never returned.
Breed was compelled to hunt farther from home as the deer quit the valleys to descend to the foothills for the first nips of green grass.
If I nips a rock it's mine; I don't split out no bits for no snoozer, see!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nips" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
