gnaw

Now bees, as may be clearly seen by examining the edge of a growing comb, do make a rough, circumferential wall or rim all round the comb; and they gnaw into this from the opposite sides, always working circularly as they deepen each cell.

Thereupon he attempted to gnaw his Bone, but his teeth passed through it without resistance.

The dog was unable to gnaw through the leather at his own end of the stick.

In the end, the winning dog stretched himself out comfortably with his bone between his paws, and proceeded to growl over it, and gnaw it, and grease the floor with it, just as fifty others were already doing; and the rest of the court resumed their previous indus- tries and entertainments.

They gnaw me now, they gnaw me now, There where I most did sin.

The leopards savage, The lions in their rage, Might catch thee in their paws And gnaw thee in their jaws.

What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.

That Avarice is an ardent counselor; she carries away her man, as Satan did Jesus, to the mountain, and when once she has shown to an unfortunate all the kingdoms of the earth, she is able to repose herself, knowing full well that she has left her companion, Envy, to gnaw his heart.

The second is, that were it not for this easy borrowing upon interest, men's necessities would draw upon them a most sudden undoing; in that they would be forced to sell their means (be it lands or goods) far under foot; and so, whereas usury doth but gnaw upon them, bad markets would swallow them quite up.

I had heard the call, felt the gnaw of desire, yearned for the anodyne.

More than once, it is true, he had been heard to say, clutching his hands convulsively upon his breast,--"It gnaws me!

The Mouse, passing that way, and seeing that his benefactor was helpless, gnawed off his tail.