1 Now you get hold of all the doorkeys you can find, and I'll nip all of auntie's, and the first dark night we'll go there and try 'em.'
2 Bullets began to whistle among the branches and nip at the trees.
3 They glared as if they were exposed to a frost that nipped them and fixed them all at the same level.
4 He had nipped in the bud the possible meeting between Eustacia and her old lover this very night.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed 5 An orchard surrounded it, but the trees, as is usual upon the moor, were stunted and nipped, and the effect of the whole place was mean and melancholy.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House 6 Well," said Huck, presently, coming back to the main question, "whoever nipped the whiskey in No.
7 I leaned against a gate, and looked into an empty field where no sheep were feeding, where the short grass was nipped and blanched.
8 She was like some rare flower grown for exhibition, a flower from which every bud had been nipped except the crowning blossom of her beauty.
9 Thenardier's sensations were those of the wolf at the moment when he feels himself nipped and seized by the steel jaw of the trap.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S... 10 Relaxed after the walk, a chill nipping her throat, conscious of his warmth and power, she leaned gratefully against him.
11 The mosquitoes made merry over her, biting her firm, round arms and nipping at her bare insteps.
12 I felt little teeth nipping at my neck.