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Ms. Jen, gnawing on one of her pink fingernails, watched me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z
Not far from the cave he noticed that there were footprints on the ground and that lying nearby there was a bone which had been gnawed. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z
Cutwater had begun gnawing away at a roasted pheasant, and his cheek swelled out as if he had a monstrous toothache. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z
While I gnawed on my rabbit, I watched as much as I listened. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Tjaden regrets that we wasted the gnawed pieces of bread on the rats. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
Shield me from these doubts that gnaw at me, he had prayed, and give me the strength to do what is right. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
She gnawed away at what was bothering her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z
All my imaginings ’bout settling Pap’s debt and rustling up this gang that robbed the Tanners started gnawing at me and I was getting more and more excited and worked up. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z
I glanced over at Coach, who had one finger in his mouth, gnawing on a nail. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z
He talks around the toothpick he’s been gnawing on. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
Yet the real reason why he didn’t step to Jimmy was gnawing at him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
The headache was gnawing on my brain with rusty razor teeth. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
They wrestled another gnawed and splintered post from the ground. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z
Now you laugh, day and night, while you gnaw on my bones. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Colin shot a glance at his friend, who held a quail daintily in his hands, his teeth gnawing at the bone in a vain search for a half-decent meal. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z
Except it wouldn’t be his warm laughter, but how he had sounded in his final days, after the typhus had gnawed him to the bone. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
My chest compresses, my insides gnaw at me, eating away at my sanity. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Also, she had seen the working party gnawing industriously at the base of a tall poplar. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
It starts gnawing on his heart, and gets all mixed up in his dreams. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
She reluctantly took the cookie and sat down to gnaw on it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
Ophie gnawed on her bottom lip and stared at the empty shelf. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
Dad and Ma looked at Ernie, who gnawed the side of his jaw trying to hide his embarrassment. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z
Grainy scenes, but no less terrifying: grocery stores ablaze, smoke billowing from their rooftops, walls gnawed to studs by flame. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
I would have used seal sinew to bind the ribs together, for this is stronger than kelp, but wild animals like it and soon would have gnawed the fence down. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
I had gnawed into the unsatisfying books and into my own unstocked mind without finding a morsel of peace or understanding. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
Moths gnawing away at her grandfather’s ancient smocks? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
The hare gnawed thoughtfully on some bread and salad. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
It’s like a gnawing, the tug of a rope wrapped around the end of my esophagus. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z
She gnawed it with her front teeth like a rodent. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
While there, he heard the worms saying that the roof-beam had been almost gnawed through so that it would soon fall and crush all beneath it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
The message gnawed away at the corners of our hearts: “You can kill black people. It’s okay, because even if someone is arrested, no one goes to jail for it.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
In those days she’d gnaw on just about anything, and I don’t mean “nibble.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z
Obinze, who anchored her through that summer of waiting—his steady voice over the phone, his long letters in blue airmail envelopes—and who understood, as summer was ending, the new gnawing in her stomach. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
I gnawed on the meat around the pig’s feet and sucked the bones until the salty, slippery membrane slid out and swished around my tongue. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z
In the back of his mind, Nathan felt a gnawing fear that made his knees weak and his spine ache. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
In time she also came to understand that he, like she, lived with self-doubt gnawing continually at his heart. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
“I could also tell you that the children here are born with teeth and gnaw on bird bones in their cradles.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
Round these, some favourite hounds lay snuffling in their dreams, or scratching themselves for fleas, or gnawing mutton bones which they had scrounged from the kitchens. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
Matthew gnawed on his lip, staring at the map. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
I look back at Tobias, who is pacing back and forth in front of the windows, gnawing on his fingernails. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
She gnawed at her bottom lip as the words crossed her mind for the hundredth time, the thousandth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
Like: Isn’t it great I just signed up to voluntarily gnaw my own arm off? The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z
Scott had gnawed silently on a chicken wing while Mom ate her salad, but once she got up and approached the appetizer bar, he dropped the bone onto his plate. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z
After swallowing several times, the bear put the jar down and turned back to gnaw his haunch of meat, heedless of Farder Coram and Lyra, it seemed; but then he spoke again. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
Adrenaline shot through Mark and hunger gnawed at his stomach. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
The scrappy puppy in the back seat, however, hops into the pilot's lap and starts gnawing on the control stick! Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
They were so tough, it was like gnawing on a tree. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
The dragon Nidhogg lives in these waters, and it is always gnawing at the root from below. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z
And the irony is, I’m gnawing my hands waiting for Hilly to speak up when I’m the only one in this town who doesn’t care what she has to say anymore. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
Exhausted, I finally climbed into bed close to midnight, ignoring the gnawing in my stomach. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
It said, “Pounding in the back of their heads was a gnawing feeling that science and the press had taken advantage of them.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
I realized he was making an awful fuss, and decided it was because he was trying to gnaw through ice to get in. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
Dim yellow light through The rear window of the bar showed a vast pale form crouching upright and gnawing at a haunch of meat which it held in both hands. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
The kitten was no longer gnawing inside him, trying to get out. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
It’s not easy with this giant nervous ball gnawing at my stomach. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Broken shingles from the roof covered the floor, there was an empty sack in a corner, some broken earthenware shards, perhaps from a dish or a plate, and a few bones gnawed clean. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
I sat down, they watching me, and the little girl with her streaked face and the gnawed looking loaf, and the water swift and peaceful below the path. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
The four of us exchange worried glances, and guilt begins to gnaw the pit of my stomach. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
My parents’ humiliation at this very public display must be gnawing at them like a vulture picking flesh off bone. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
Maybe I could learn to ignore the gnawing in the pit of my stomach telling me it wasn’t enough. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z
Mr. Corcoran—leftover tears still rolling down his cheeks but his face otherwise composed—was looking with interest at a spaniel puppy who was gnawing furtively at the toe of his shoe. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
He did not eat now; he simply forced food down his throat without tasting it, to keep the gnawing pain of hunger away, to keep from feeling dizzy. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
Using his razor-sharp fangs he began gnawing into the ancient tapestry, working from the tasseled hem upwards. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
It’s ugly, all right, a big rodent with a fuzz of mottled gray fur and two wicked-looking gnawing teeth protruding over its lower lip. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
Evan was lying on a blanket next to his brother, gnawing on a rubber giraffe. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
The sister gnaws on a fingernail and nods. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
When he went to close the door, Jon saw that Ghost was stretched out beneath the anvil, gnawing on the bone of an ox. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
Far, far below the deepest delvings of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z
He was clumsy and tired and hungry enough that he would have gladly gnawed the leather off his boot. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
Still, we both knew Fang would rather gnaw off his own knob than get into it, so if he had a problem with Stan he kept it to himself, which was fine by me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
When he wasn’t gnawing on the fingers of his left hand, he began biting his shirt, actually chomping pieces out of it and leaving holes. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
She kept gnawing on the cloth and looking at my face. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z
The beaver chewed and gnawed and carved up that piece of wood, turning it over and over in his paws. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
As the solitary beaver gnawed through the last strands, the rope parted. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
He has the look of a trapped man, a man with a gnawing secret. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
He leaned out the window and hurled his gnawed mealy at his wife’s Land Rover. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Siddhartha thought yearningly and bitterly about his son, nursed his love and feeling of tenderness for him, let the pain gnaw at him, underwent all the follies of love. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
I gnaw at my lip—she doesn’t get it, I can tell, so I keep going. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z
They are huddled in a corner under one torn blanket and they are gnawing at a loaf of bread. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z
Robert laid his spear on the rock beside him and began to gnaw between his raised hands. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z
She was already at work with her sharp teeth, gnawing at the string. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z
She kept digging, frustration gnawing away inside her, until a single word on a folded-up parchment caught her eye. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
I found myself crying too, and felt a gnawing emptiness, as though I had been scraped clean inside and there was nothing in me now but a terrible darkness. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z
Almost every man has had his bread gnawed. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
We returned to our places, shame in our souls but fear gnawing at us nevertheless. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
They ate long and daintily, spearing out pieces of chicken, holding the dripping pieces until they cooled and then gnawing the muscled meat from the bone. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
“We have the boy now. Our brothers gnaw at his soul Soon he will be mad and ripe. Then we shall feast.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
We cannot afford to throw the bread away, because then we should have nothing left to eat in the morning, so we carefully cut off the bits of bread that the animals have gnawed. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
Colonel Cathcart took the cigarette holder out of his mouthy stood it on end inside the pocket of his shirt, and began gnawing on the fingernails of both hands grievously. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
If only I could figure out how to gnaw my own leg off. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
“No reason,” said Petey, who had no real reasons but a gnawing worry in her gut that Finn was hiding something from her, from everyone, and she had to know what it was. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z
After drinking their fill they went to work on the steaks, gnawing on them until the meat thawed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
The rope went taut, held for an instant and then parted at the point where Hazel had gnawed it to a thread. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
I gnawed the cuticles off from around my fingernails, leaving welts of exposed, oozing flesh which would harden into rinds and scale off. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
Harry’s brain seemed to be moving a little faster, and as it did, a gnawing sensation grew in the pit of his stomach.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z
This scared piece of me gnaws at my stomach, makes it burn so badly that sometimes I can’t even eat; sometimes I double over, gasping in pain. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
One could see that the rope had been gnawed in two. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
She made adorable squirrel dolls for the children in hopes of teaching them to think of squirrels as beloved pets, but they joyously gnawed the dolls to pieces. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
The day passed in a blissful haze which not even the gnawing of Ranofer’s empty stomach could penetrate. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
While they ate, Sefia gnawed a few strips of dried meat, searching the men for weaknesses while the rumble of their voices drifted up through the trees. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
Three fears had gnawed at Lazlo, back in his old life. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
Evil forces once again endangered the Motherland from without, while homegrown traitors gnawed away at society's foundation from within. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
I'm a little disappointed, but the gnawing worry in my gut is stronger. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
‘We have to gnaw off a good chunk of this. I need it.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
For the infinite had already begun to gnaw at the roots of Western thought, thanks to Zeno of Elea, a philosopher reckoned by his contemporaries to be the most annoying man in the West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
The President settled back, tapping his fingers on the arm of his seat, gnawing his lip, but saying nothing and letting the pilot work unflustered. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
The knowledge is a demon gnawing insatiably at my mind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
A familiar guilt gnaws at my edges as I think about Tao, about the things he said to me in the temple’s kitchens. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
At first, Cassiopeia was confused by her reticule and started to gnaw on the leather clasp, but Penelope quickly corrected her and all was well. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
If I didn’t gnaw frequently, my lower teeth would soon grow through the top of my skull and puncture my brain and alas, kill me.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
He sat on the edge of the unmade bed and gnawed savagely at the broken, dirty ends of his fingernails. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
He knows I'm right, but the gnawing in our stomachs is becoming painful. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
He sat by the side of the road and tried to remember his last meal, but all he could think of was the pain that was gnawing away at his stomach. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z
This is a chronic disorder that affects only children of immigrants, who experience a constant gnawing guilt for the multitude of sacrifices their parents made to bring them to the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
After the dried fish were gone, she suffered from gnawing hunger for a day before a new plan occurred to her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
With their needle-sharp teeth, they gnawed and worried with it until it was melted away. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
The ghost/prophet/inspector/angel was gnawing some kind of plastic strip off her wrist. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z
He stole the corn, he upset the milk-pails, he broke the eggs, he trampled the seedbeds, he gnawed the bark off the fruit trees. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z
Finally I buy a slice of take-out pizza and devour it en route, with my fingers, folding it in two and gnawing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
I filled his cup and heard him belch and removed his plate with the meat half gnawed from the bones. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
Most of the woman’s flesh had been eaten away, and he could see her partly gnawed bones sticking out from her dress. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z
I tried to ignore the ache and focus on my classes, but it felt as though I were being asked to sit through a lecture while a wolf gnawed on my jaw. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
The young mouse was assailed by gnawing doubts. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
It was a joint of smoked goat and he was soon gnawing at it—not very hungrily because he was still fairly full of quail. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z
Give them a bone to gnaw on or they will keep on trying to bite you. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z
We sit in tía Fermina's backyard gnawing on figs we picked from her tree. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
How Myrna would gnaw at her espresso cup rim in envy. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
I feel like if I could work on an aria, I could shed some of this nervous energy building up alongside my gnawing hunger. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
The parrot hops down to the desk, kicks around some of the mess, and when he finds no pen, he gnaws off a blue-green feather from his back. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
But as we walked along, step after step, kilometer after kilometer, my stomach began to gnaw away at itself. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z
Amil and I would fight over the pit, loving to gnaw every bit of fruit off it, the filmy stickiness coating our hands and face. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
Hyenas and lions dug up the graves at night to gnaw on the bodies. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
They gnawed off the hard green peels and chewed the juicy white pulp, speaking Hausa and laughing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
Jasper Jr. stood there gnawing on his lower lip, which I took as a sign of possible brain activity. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z
He had a trio of fears that sat in his gut like swallowed teeth, and when he was too quiet with his own thoughts, they’d grind together to gnaw at him from within. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
The beavers became quite fond of gnawing on a certain hardy shrub at the edge of the garden. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
Now the mushroom-cap girl gnawed on her thumbnail and glared at the linoleum. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
This strange hulking presence gnawing its meat was like nothing she had ever imagined, and she felt a profound admiration and pity for the lonely creature. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
All the while the flies gnawed on us. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
I’m gnawing on a big roasted turkey leg. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
It had one other knot besides the one she had been gnawing. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
These feelings are ever there, like a rat gnawing at the edges of my spirit. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z
All the while, there's a fierce hollowness gnawing at my insides and I try to imagine a life of this, watching fine people eat while I nigh on starve to death. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
He crouched down and began to nibble and gnaw at the thick cord. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Rats’ teeth continue to grow our entire lives, which necessitates gnawing to keep them at a manageable length. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
The rats bit him when he slept, gnawing at his fingers and his toes, even at his face, so when he got his hands on one he did not hesitate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
When it was stormy, the huge fangs of the breakers gnawed at the rocky islands. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
The wood is rotting in spots, not to mention covered in graffiti and gnawed away on the corners by forest animals. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z
He gnawed on the ends until they bled, and I finally had to pull his hands away from his mouth. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
There came a little gnawing sound from under the floor and all the men looked down toward it gratefully. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z
Enlisting the aid of the beaver’s highly capable molars, the badger left him gnawing away at a yew sapling in the orchard while she went off to find an arrow that would fit her brainchild. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
The more anxious I was, the more intensely I gnawed on my fingernails, sometimes making my fingers bleed. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z
Old Dan was trying to dig and gnaw his way into the log. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
Something had been gnawing at me all night. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
A huge rat considered them with its flat black eyes before bending again to gnaw on a bone. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z
‘The murder of Déagol haunted Gollum, and he had made up a defence, repeating it to his “precious” over and over again, as he gnawed bones in the dark, until he almost believed it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z
A sudden silence seized the feasters ... all but Lord Ramsay, who tossed aside the bone he had been gnawing, wiped his mouth on his sleeve, smiled a greasy, wet-lipped smile, and said, “Father.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
Doubts of such kind gnawed at the chaplain’s lean, suffering frame insatiably. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
Let bookworms gnaw his entrails...and when at last he goeth to his last punishment, let the flames of hell consume him for ever. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
They were in there somewhere, changing her friend’s thoughts, warping her feelings, gnawing at the roots of who she was. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
She gnawed on her bottom lip until she tasted blood, until she could no longer see the three warriors. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
She lay there gnawing and licking at the stump of her missing leg, and the man sat still, one elbow on the bar, looking all around with an air of mild and knowing interest. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
Knowing I might not have a job after Christmas gnaws at my stomach. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
Red Jeyne loped over to lick at his hand, and Helicent slipped under the table and curled up by his feet, gnawing at a bone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
While Diego tinkered under the hood, doubt gnawed at my resolve. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
Biter sat on top of one of the dead men, holding a limp hand as he gnawed at the fingers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
I am a little girl again, holding on so tight, my hands hurt and the cold chain of the swing gnaws itself into my knuckles. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z
Pauline went to bed those nights begging her husband not to gnaw with his beak at the living. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
I tried gnawing my way out, but the strands were made of some kind of plastic, as hard as wire. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z
Old Dan bawled and started gnawing on the big tree’s trunk. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
Finnick gives her the last bit of bread and she gnaws on it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
She nodded her head rapidly, looking at me, gnawing into the damp halfmoon of the bread. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
Gradually, Cole worked his teeth together, gnawing on the body. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z
He gnawed the reindeer haunch, and a wild notion flew into Lyra’s mind as she remembered all those witches in the night sky; but she said nothing about that. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
“They destroy crops and food supplies. They kill trees by gnawing around the bark. Mice can be destroyed by traps, poison, and cats.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z
She began to attack it ferociously, gnawing on it with the side of her mouth, dancing around it as if it were an animal she had successfully brought down in a hunt. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
She gnawed on her bottom lip, unease rising as she watched its crimson folds flutter in the breeze, noting the violating way its central pole impaled the maiden night sky like a gilded spear. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
It was not illness but loneliness gnawing at my bones. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z
Two silent children sat on the floor gnawing hard rolls. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
The first time he woke, he heard Templeton gnawing a hole in the grain bin. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z
“No, it’s not,” said Hazel, “and it’s stretched tight, of course, which makes it much easier to gnaw. I can gnaw that, all right.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
“The witch knows!” said another man, whose muskrat dæmon gnawed unceasingly at a pencil. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
“So you gnawed it off her toe? How?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
One arm had been ripped right off the shoulder,- Arya saw the bones a few feet away, gnawed and cracked, picked clean of meat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
Sherlock is out in the yard with us, gnawing on a stick. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z
He pressed on long after he knew he should turn back, a growing sense of anxiety gnawing at his belly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
I lie back and close my eyes and feel myself sink into dread, that awful gnawing in my gut. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn’t have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails till I was a bleeding wreck. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Unferth gnawed at his knuckles like an animal trying to rid itself of a wounded and unwanted limb. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z
I nearly stepped on two rats gnawing and froze. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Alsvindr gnawed on his bit impatiently, and Anya said, “Hang on,” as she pulled her bracer from where it was fastened to her quiver strap. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z
I don't want to chew on my nails or lips, so I find myself gnawing on the inside of my cheek. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
They did this so they could gnaw through the floor from below. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
I bury Valerian near the stables, but outside the paddock, so that even the most carnivorous of Madoc’s sharp-toothed horses are unlikely to dig him up and gnaw on his bones. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
If you feel a gnawing at your bones, that is only yourself, hungry. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
It sinks like a stone, and the rope—which has been gnawed upon by the feral brains—snaps, sending the bell to the irretrievable depths. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
Each dusty puff added to the all-too-familiar gnawing pain in my stomach. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z
His food was pushed between the bars at the front of his prison on the end of long poles, while the cub clawed and gnawed it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z
It was a concern that she felt deep inside, a gnawing feeling that she couldn’t explain but couldn’t help but believe. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z
He gnawed off a length of thread and used it to tie the needle around Despereaux’s waist. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z
In spite of the fear gnawing in his stomach and the anguish of missing his family—already—he felt a thrill of excitement. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z
She gnawed like a rat into the godown of Chacko’s grief. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
All I had to do was look at the piece of curled-up rind lying in the dirt beside him, with all the meat gnawed off. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z
Matt, gnawing his bread, wandered off with Branch at his heels. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
People were gnawing on their fingers and tapping their feet and wriggling around and generally getting ulcers, wondering if Mr. Birkway was going to read from the journals. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z
So I go to bed and, sure enough, within a few hours I awake from a nightmare where that old woman from District 4 transforms into a large rodent and gnaws on my face. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
The poison of loneliness and the gnawing envy of the unlonely had gone out of him, and his person was clean and sweet, and he knew it was. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
The torn book bag in which he had enjoyed such comfortable naps was gone, but he found a fresh bag, gnawed a hole in the brown paper, and crawled into the soft, ready-chewed stuffing. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z
I gnawed at the dried sausage, savoring the saliva it produced. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
It would give him something to do, reflected the King miserably, which was better than wandering about all the time, with his eternal sorrow gnawing at his heart And he fell to thinking about Piggy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
Maya gnawed on her lower lip, looking everywhere but at Claire. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
The perplexity of it all gnawed at him a great deal more than the meaning of Macbeth. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
It makes its way inside me and travels, quietly gnawing at my thoughts. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z
As he walked toward the East Door, he couldn’t stop picturing Winston in a dark corner of the barn, gnawing on raw pigs’ feet. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
While I was walking in the city one day, I noticed a white woman in the gutter gnawing on some fish bones. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
It tastes of orange Popsicles, penny gumballs, red licorice, gnawed hair, dirty ice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
Fiona gnawed through it, which was disgusting since this string had actually passed through the cracks between my teeth on several occasions and, more recently, had floated in a pan of butter. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z
He pulled a wire out and began to gnaw at it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
“I just don’t want any whiskery disgusting thing gnawing at my legs, is all,” Florida said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z
The sense that she wasn’t living up to her potential gnawed at her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Looking at Grandpa, he gnawed at one comer of it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
She appeared agitated, gnawing upon her lip and rubbing her paws together. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
We watched as she boiled two potatoes and gnawed on a stump of bread. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z
They’d gnawed on it in mute bliss, feeling nearly drunk on its flavor. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
It had been gnawed off near the tip and I knew it was from the arrow which had wounded the leader. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
She gnaws on her lower lip, something she does when she is thinking hard. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z
He gnaws on the end of a cigar and stabs his cane repeatedly into the carpet. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z
But it was made of heavy wire with a tough plastic coating, and though he kept gnawing for half an hour, it was too much for his teeth. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z
That gnawing feeling came back to me and I worked up my nerve. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
He saw that the metal chest was ringed with coyote prints and something had tried to gnaw the latch. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
I whiled away many a pleasant hour gnawing at a flipper joint or split­ting open bones and licking out their marrow. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
I was frowning; he gnawed on his lower lip. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z
Its brown icing was as full of holes as the binding of a book when bookworms have been gnawing at it for years. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
Hunger gnawed at his stomach, but he ignored it. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z
The gnaw turns to a ripple of...what? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z
Downstairs, he found enough food in Basta’s kitchen to quell the hunger that had been gnawing like a worm at the walls of his stomach. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
Then she gnawed on all the metal tips until they came off. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
Already the Ring tempted him, gnawing at his will and reason. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z
The post was splintered and gouged, gnawed in places. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z
And the Earl of Maytag’s awful remark about hunting still gnawed at her insides. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
Macy’s eyes filled with tears, and she gnawed on her hair. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z
Those lips whose warmth still lingered on my skin became blued as if frostbitten and gnawed on by the fish. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
It hadn’t just been gnawed on—it had been completely ripped in two. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z
Finally he grunted, gnawed on a fingernail, and eventually decided on what he wanted to say. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z
The gnawing discomfort, the chaos, the intellectual vertigo was not an alarm. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
Beowulf was gnawing on his own shoe, and Cassiopeia let out a tiny whimper, but Penelope felt she had their attention. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
It gave her courage too, made her brave enough to tell something else that had been gnawing at her. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
Before long he was on his feet, gnawing through the thong. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
A white greyhound is gnawing on Fabian’s leg. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
First, because the lack of sleep was making him delirious, and second, because a crazy goat had chewed free from his tether and was following Finn around, trying to gnaw off his back pockets. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z
I craned into the open air, had my teeth around the plant fiber, and was about to start gnawing when voices made me freeze. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z
“This one has been scraped and gnawed at,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
He dropped to all fours again and went on gnawing his meat. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
As it gnawed, hideous growling, crunching, sucking noises came from it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
Coarse rope bound my wrists over my head, the fibers gnawing into the skin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
The witch covered him with leaves and turned to Lyra, who was still gnawing the rabbit. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Beady-eyed rats scurried along the vine, gnawing at it. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
Maniac thought of Thanksgivings past, of sitting around a joyless table, his aunt and uncle as silent and lifeless as the mammoth bird they gnawed on. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
Ivy trailed off and gnawed on her lower lip. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
We gnawed the heels, staring at each other like bulldogs. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
The journey is slow, and Bailey sits staring out the window at the changing landscape, absently gnawing at his fingernails. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
The years had gnawed it, and violent hands had maimed it. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z
Beneath the dark canopy of leaves and smoke the fire laid hold on the forest and began to gnaw. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z
“So long as they get a name to gnaw on they don’t care whose it is, and what about, ’specially if they can make it sound like evil.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z
I gnawed at the vitamin until it stopped looking so huge, and the cage got smaller, and then suddenly, hang! The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z
As they passed through the waiting room, the statue of Hygeia was sitting on a bench, pouring acid on her face and singing ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’, while her golden snake gnawed at her foot. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
Matthew gnawed on his lip, staring at the map. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
‘If it don’t let them go, I’ll have it down, if I have to gnaw it.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z
The foxes came when I was cooking my food and stood outside gazing through the cracks, and the wild dogs also came, gnawing at the whale ribs, growling because they could not get in. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
It looked like the tip had been gnawed off by a barracuda. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z
He put in the second-team offense and defense, but their hapless playing gnawed at him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
I would rather gnaw off my own fingers than eat a bird. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
Sigurd bellowed as the domovoi latched his cat claws into the side of the Varangian’s head and gnawed at his face. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z
Hyacinth nodded but continued gnawing on her pinky. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
Yet at times there is something about him that gnaws at me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
He hopped about the grass, gnawing one piece after another, eating the green tops along with the slices. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Looks done to me,” he said, and he reached over and picked up a tiny chop by the bone end and began to gnaw on it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
There would be nothing left of him but a pile of gnawed bones . A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z
He slept, snoring, on his folded blanket most of the day, and it was the toddlers who grabbed and gnawed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
Rats will gnaw at the hide if they are let. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
“I don’t understand this,” I say, still gnawing on it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z
He was surprised to see that one had a drop of blood by it He examined his bitten nail closely and watched the little globe of blood that gathered where the quick was gnawed away. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z
More importantly, his job gave us something else, something that I valued more, even when I was hungry and it was hard to think about anything other than the gnawing in my stomach. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
Under the critical eye of Redtooth a band of rodents was gnawing off a length of planking from a rickety lych-gate fence at the rear of the church. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
Malcolm sat down to gnaw at the bread and cheese and found it hard going, but his stomach was glad of the effort his teeth were making. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
But he was also hungry, with a gnawing, unwholesome kind of hunger. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
His many scars made him stiff, and limping helped ease the pain gnaw- ing at his hip. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z
He’d already chewed the stuffing off a fancy chair and was now gnawing the armrest. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z
Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
His stomach ceased gnawing, but his anxieties did not. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
Tonight, something that had been gnawing at his heart for years drove him to Meggie's room. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
Ophie gnawed on her lower lip, before taking a deep breath and letting it out. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
She picked at her hair and gnawed on the mole below her lip. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
He stopped gnawing and looked at her directly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
He found Ghost outside his door, gnawing on the bone of an ox to get at the marrow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
We follow Justin and Chad into the back room, where they find a darkened corner and immediately set to work gnawing the faces off each other. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z
Uncle Dap gnawed the ends of his moustache, and wrung his hands. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
Flustered by the photographer prowling around adjusting his lens, Gordon began to read, “Mice are rodents. They gnaw things and they multiply rapidly.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z
When that was done, she sat next to Iorek Byrnison as he gnawed a haunch of reindeer that was frozen as hard as wood. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
Some crouched in dark doorways of abandoned buildings, gnawing on moldy bread and the peels of sugar beets. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
But the thought of a serious injury to Boobie gnawed at him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
But instead he was consumed by the gnawing realization that to get them out, they’d have to go in and fight. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
A bottomless chasm of insecurity and self-doubt that gnaws at them. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
From the earliest times, rats lived around the edges of human cities and farms, stowed away on men’s ships, gnawed holes in their floors and stole their food. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z
He thought how the rats had gnawed ragged holes in the red saddle, and how the mice had nibbled Gabilan’s tail until it was stringy and thin. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z
Gwenforte lies at their feet, gnawing on a mutton bone, her strong yellow teeth scraping away the last scraps of meat and gristle. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
What agony of starvation this woman had endured, with the starved creature gnawing at her from within, desperate for its own life! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z
Ralph found that he had bark in his mouth from the gnawed spear. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z
He wandered painfully along the river bank, listened to the rippling of the water, listened to the gnawing hunger in his body. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
Stella gnawed on her pencil as Mrs. Grayson put on her reading glasses, slid away the twine from the package, and snapped the wrapping open. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z
“But—I know and you know, dear Frank, that...the rats swarm back and begin to gnaw at the same old spot, the moment the dog’s back is turned.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
Beside the stump, dressed in crude rags, sat a wiry old woman gnawing at a knot in a bristly rope. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
Now the mushroom-cap girl gnawed on her thumbnail and glared at the linoleum. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
"I wish I hadn't kissed her. The whole boyfriend thing kind of like gnaws at my brain." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z
Feeling the pangs of hunger gnawing at my stomach, I decided I would stop and eat at the next stream I found. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
And then something occurs to me, something that hits me in the gut and gnaws at my insides. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
Mixed with sweat, the dust formed a paste that collected inside the boys’ cleats, gnawing blisters into their ankles. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
Soon they got the furniture burning merrily, and Nailer cut slices of ham for them to gnaw on. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
Judging from the piles of soggy, chewed-up scraps that littered the steps, the boys had been gnawing their way through each one. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
Guilt was gnawing at my insides as I watched Bertha shelling those peas. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z
In those days she’d gnaw on just about anything, and I don’t mean “nibble.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z
He accepted a piece of half-raw meat and gnawed it like a wolf. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z
I didn’t have any belongings, just a rotten potato in my pocket that I gnawed on when no one was looking. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
By late that evening, when Garvey suggested he stop work for the day, Cole’s hunger again gnawed at his belly. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z
I waited, gnawing my lip, but he said no more. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z
His shoulder was beginning to fester from the gnawing and digging that the R.O.U.S.s had done into his flesh. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
He gnawed around on some of the deer’s leg bones that Mama threw away; but not once did he ever even act like he could smell the meat we’d hung up. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z
Other boys and girls bent over their paper, writing, pausing to gnaw their pencils, writing again. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z
“Fulfilling my duty as godfather,” said Sirius, gnawing on the chicken bone in a very doglike way. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
But when the memory glimpses subsided, he was left with the gnawing, painful emptiness. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
In fifteen minutes flat, all that will be left of a zebra is the skull, which may yet be dragged away and gnawed down at leisure by young ones in the lair. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
Rhaegal, still chained, was gnawing on the carcass of a bull. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
And we, even if we had no meat or even grass to gnaw, still boil our water to kill the invisible creatures that would like to kill us first. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
And—how her heart sank to hear it!—the unmistakable sound of gnawing. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
He didn’t need to be gnawing on rib fat. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z
What happens to gnawing family mysteries that travel down generations? Review | In Maisy Card’s ‘These Ghosts Are Family,’ resentments are passed down from one generation to the next 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z
Increasingly, actors win awards for their work in small, low-budget indies in which they gnaw off their left leg. Academy Awards: season's splits pave way for the Mr Potato Head Oscars 2013-01-30T18:10:01Z
Once the obligatory terrifying introduction – setting off a stun grenade and storming on in a gas mask – was over, Ruth Wilson promptly went about gnawing on every single piece of scenery within a 50-ft radius. Luther recap: season three, episode four 2013-07-23T21:01:00Z
And soon they come crawling, pecking, gnawing and crunching. Review: ‘Eating Giants: Hippo,’ on Animal Planet 2012-09-14T14:37:18Z
The concert on Friday also showed a major institution attempting to address issues of racial and gender representation in classical music that have grown only more gnawing over the past year and a half. The New York Philharmonic Returns, in the Midst of Transitions 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z
But silence is also a balm; even the briefest retreat from the gnawing din of humanity can be spiritually and physiologically curative. The Restorative Pause of Silent Record Week 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z
The rats are very good at gnawing through/burrowing around barriers such as Grade 3 steel wool. How to control rats, those unwelcome visitors to Washington gardens 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z
Taystee, on the other hand — facing a life sentence for a murder she didn’t commit — wrestles with betrayal and an existential crisis that gnaws at her sanity. "Orange Is the New Black" ends justly, asking: Where do we go from here? 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z
A cozy melancholy, filled with humor as it examines the gnawing question of what the point of this whole thing is. Jason Segel: By the Book 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z
Eventually, Marguerite develops her own gnawing obsession about Georges, stalking him as he initially stalked her. 'Wild Grass': Surreal farce captures growing obsessions 2010-07-22T21:44:00Z
I’ve wrestled with the nightmare of decay, the grotesque sucking of flies and tunneling of worms and the gnawing of rodents, and decided it’s still preferable to cremation. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z
Across the table Mr. Hutchings gnawed on a rat bone, pronouncing it delicious. Dinner at an Exhibition: Rat, Prepared Many Ways 2012-07-26T21:57:39Z
And “hunger” feels like the right word for it, in the sense that your body lets your mind know that something is up, and fills it with a gnawing sense of absence. The power of touch: what will it be like when we can all connect again? 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z
After a period of acute hunger, the gnawing eventually subsides in favor of numbness. The healing power of the peach 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z
In a scene now familiar to me, sinners were depicted being punished in hell — in this version, for example, hanging from trees over a pit of fire as rats gnawed on the ropes. Finding the Other, Cheaper Side of Bali 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z
You can take just so many scruffy, grim survivors gnawing on the same trite dilemma for so long. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z
But the main problem seems to be the show's gnawing lack of imagination. Why Top Gear has stalled 2011-02-28T10:18:16Z
The prospect of publicly admitting my economic struggle to make ends meet meant gnawing on my fingernails the morning an article was published. Why I came out as being poor 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z
“His slangy language, his Americanism,” his “kidlike curiosity,” she writes, helped her forget “the cold, the anxiety, the gnawing fear in my stomach” in Aleppo. Review: ‘The Morning They Came for Us’ Reports on the Hell of Syria 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z
I’m not a collector of fine volumes; I like cheap editions that I can gnaw upon, underline in, use as coasters or fling at the cat. A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z
AS the shapers of classical music taste gnaw on the field’s future, relevance and identity, New Yorkers are living in a golden age of new music. The Week Ahead: June 3 — 8 2012-06-01T14:30:40Z
Perhaps the first bookworm in the English language appears in the Exeter Book riddles: A moth eats words, gnawing through the pages as foodstuff but losing the sense. What Has One Eye and 1,200 Heads? An Old English Riddle, That’s What! 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z
Imprisoned at Harrenhal, where she witnessed quite possibly the worst way to die: rats clawing and gnawing their way through a man’s chest. The horrors of ‘Game of Thrones,’ character by character 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z
It looked like a massacre, limbs strewn carelessly, gnawed bones after a meal. Vancouver Island, Through an Artist’s Eyes 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z
While gnawing on a bamboo shoot, they think, what is life all about? Black, Jolie find nonviolent themes in 'Panda' 2011-05-12T12:42:08Z
"The pub crawl idea is something that had been been gnawing at me for a long time," Wright said on Tuesday. Pub crawl pals reunite for premiere 2013-07-09T14:37:55Z
Singing or talking, he’s appealingly frank: He sticks to facts, letting a hurtful comment hang in the air but then moving into one of his gnawing, introspective, largely delightful songs. Singer-guitarist Benjamin Scheuer purrs his life and times in ‘The Lion’ 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z
I’d be covered in blood, and there was blood all over the dagger in my hand, and then I’d be stomping outside for a piece of pizza, gnawing on it. Maisie Williams: ‘I was covered in blood and gnawing on pizza’ 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z
It was all done without any gnawing ambition to become a composer – there was never any doubt that I was going to concentrate on playing the piano for the rest of my life. Marc-Andr? Hamelin: Performer or composer? 2010-08-26T21:44:00Z
What gnaws at them is the sense that they’re out of step with society. For those still trying to duck covid, the isolation is worse than ever 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z
Nevertheless, neither should you be perplexed by a gnawing desire for a second season you may harbor. "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance": A seductive fantasy very relevant to our reality 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z
The absence of gnawing compulsions, recurring themes, maestro flourishes and other distinguishing marks makes him difficult to place. Mike Nichols’s Brilliant Career 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z
The fact that she is currently complaining about his depiction of her can’t quite dispel — indeed, might confirm — the absurd, gnawing suspicion that her life has been one long audition for an Errol Morris film. | 'Tabloid': Was It Love? The ?Manacled Mormon? and His Kinky Weekend 2011-07-14T22:11:29Z
Amid great clouds of dust, giant bulldozers perpetually gnaw at the ground as the former Yugoslav republic undergoes one of 's biggest urban renewal schemes. Alexander the Great or a warrior on a horse? 2011-08-14T13:50:56Z
“I wake up every morning with this ache,” she says, “with this gnawing feeling of loss and displacement and horror that this is it for me.” Women Without Options and Spoiled for Choice 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z
Rehearsing Lear, Ian was like a fit dog gnawing at a bone. 'This is the best moment of my life,' he said, lying in the bath: Ian Holm remembered 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z
A gnawing dissatisfaction with life after the postwar bubble, when, for the first time, women married younger and had more children than their mothers, was setting in among American women. Despite Virginia Johnson's legacy, we're still screwed-up about sex 2013-07-26T17:33:54Z
A spark of menace in her eye, she gnaws at the bone, maniacally shouting “The cartilage!” over and over. My ancestors, the cannibals: Whaling, human sacrifice and the true story of “Moby-Dick” 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z
I recently came across the envelope, and it has been gnawing at me. Ask Amy: Son wants to peek into mysterious envelope 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z
As she slipped into dementia, and leukemia gnawed at her, a dispute rose between her husband Artis and their sons Donto and Sametto, both of whom had played in James’s touring band. A Voice of Gold, a Life of Pain: Etta James, 1938-2012 2012-01-20T22:06:06Z
Most of his ideas stem from a gnawing anxiety around gender. Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z
The gnawing “Climbing up the Walls” is aptly named, as it’s a song with knocking percussion, creaking sound effects and distorted vocals. At 20, Radiohead’s “OK Computer” becomes an album for the Trump era 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z
But when times were tough, running did a pretty decent job of lifting my spirits, allowing me to think through a problem or have an hour away from gnawing guilt, panic-inducing stress or overwhelming depression. After drugs and booze, an ultramarathon taught me how to love the mile I’m in 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z
While not quite as lean as chicken breasts, thighs are nearly as delicate, and just as easy to eat with a knife and fork — no gnawing or fingers required. This Weeknight Chicken Recipe Has Mass Appeal 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z
There is a great paradox gnawing at the soul of Samuel D. Hunter’s new drama, “A Great Wilderness.” ‘A Great Wilderness’: a crisis of faith, identity 2014-01-24T17:52:35Z
“It’s a gnawing feeling,” says Nicole, now a college freshman in Maine, of the male body she once lived in. Review: Becoming Nicole Shows a Family in Transition 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z
Pencils that are gnawed at by those of us laboring to string words together in a meaningful fashion? | Pencil This In 2011-03-02T20:30:43Z
After all, gnawing on that puzzle is the purpose of the poetry itself. A Fascinating Deep Dive Into John Ashbery’s Early Years 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z
Advertisement Moviegoing was a different avocation three decades ago from what it is today, when films are gnawed to the bones on Twitter before they make it to the screen. A Searing First Encounter With David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’ 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z
A woman has just given herself to her boyfriend and, in the postcoital afterglow — or rather, in her gnawing unease — wonders if he’ll stick around for love now that he’s had the sex. Remembering Gerry Goffin, the '60s Poet of Teen Heartbreak 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z
In response to a question about the existential problems of pandas, Jack Black went on a stream-of-consciousness riff — “Those weak moments, while gnawing on a bamboo shoot, do they think: ‘What is life all about? Party Love at Cirque de Cannes 2011-05-16T22:16:49Z
He tried to fight back by using weights on his arms to hit them and by kicking them with his legs, but they became more agitated and continued to gnaw into his legs and feet. Mauled jogger: Dogs were 'having a feast' 2012-01-18T05:13:00Z
In this sense, my timekeeper is a shield, an armor of steel defending against the gnawing fear of the unknown. She Was My World, but We Couldn’t Marry 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z
But, eventually, even these fail, and the insatiable gnaw of suffering resumes. Should We Be More Pessimistic? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z
She took 600-pound cubes of chocolate and lard and gnawed at them – teeth marks visible still. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z
The most stomach-churning scene in the new French horror film “Raw” isn’t the one where the young cannibal girl gnaws on her sister’s severed finger like it’s a KFC chicken wing. Meat as Murder: A Guide to Horror’s Favorite Dish 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z
I smiled gamely as they gnawed on sticks of butter and shoved their tiny fingers directly into bowls of batter. I didn't teach my kids how to cook. Did I fail them? 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z
However, it gnaws away on my mind and heart. Perspective | Ask Amy: Son’s delirium causes unexpected hurt 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z
“Dead hogs remain in their cages, discarded and stiff in walkways or rotting in pens as other pigs gnaw at their carcasses.” 6 reasons to fear the pork you eat 2013-06-10T19:00:00Z
I was wearing several small promo badges of the Rolling Stones, each showing a different photo by Warhol of a Stone gnawing at another's ear, foot, chest, leg, thigh or stomach. Smarties with Andy Warhol 2013-02-16T23:30:01Z
Those of you who have experienced pain, especially gnawing, chronic pain, know that it affects your happiness, outlook and ability to function. In pain? Many doctors say opioids are not the answer 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z
Like Cohen’s collection, Flattery’s “Show Them a Good Time” is populated with unlikable women, or at least ones with gaping, gnawing flaws, ones who live and observe their lives in off-kilter ways. The Macabre, the Sinister, the Absurd: Story Time Just Got Weirder 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z
Hamsters’ teeth grow, so they need stuff to gnaw on. Choosing the best pet for your family
But other than the devilish rats gnawing the woodwork, this is straightforward opera with period dress costumes by Suttirat Anne Larlarb. Plácido Domingo's sound and fury in L.A. Opera's 'Macbeth' 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z
In short, a glance at Gallipoli on a map will tell you why it was doomed to be a bone of contention on which nation-states would gnaw. Why Do We Remember Gallipoli? 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z
Following a corporate lawyer who moves to small seaside town, it tapped the zeitgeist, articulating a gnawing sense of dissatisfaction among many urban professionals.  The Time of Our Lives: following in the footsteps of Offspring, Tangle and Love My Way 2013-06-14T04:55:02Z
Even then, though, we sense the turmoil gnawing at the composure. Review: ‘On the Exhale’ Addresses Grief and the Attraction of an Assault Rifle 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z
Finck writes beautifully of this struggle but is suddenly beset with self-doubt that gnaws at her in the form of literal rats. A Graphic Memoir That Confronts the Weirdness Within 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z
And the most gnawing question for this character: How does he reconcile the contradictory elements of his nature, especially his yearning for other men? Review: The Opera ‘Crossing’ Shows Why Whitman Matters Today 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z
Love The Sinner, London While the Catholic church is torn apart by the child abuse scandal, a different issue gnaws at the Church of England. Theatre picks of the week 2010-05-07T23:14:00Z
Life lived in this kind of place brings gnawing, low-level unease. Life in Miami on the Knife’s Edge of Climate Change 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z
But he went on: “Famous last words of Ned Rorem, crushed by a truck, gnawed by the pox, stung by wasps, in dire pain: ‘How do I look?’” Ned Rorem, Composer Known for Both His Music and His Diaries, Dies at 99 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z
It goes on: “let bookworms gnaw his entrails”; “Let the flames of Hell consume him forever.” Books of The Times: ?The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,? by Stephen Greenblatt 2011-09-27T21:00:22Z
Then again, as entertaining as their squabbling is, the last thing this family needs is another bone of contention to gnaw on before finally sitting down to that rehearsal dinner. Review: ‘Familiar,’ a Comic Clash of Assimilation on the Path to a Wedding 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z
Until we got The Answer to The Question, I spent the last two years looking at kids with brothers or sisters and felt a gnawing, impermissible jealousy. The question we came to dread: ‘Are you going for a second child?’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z
Keller’s jeans are wrecked — ripped, faded, gnawed — and paired with tailored jackets or fancy blouses. Perspective | Fashion commits many sins. It’s trying to redeem itself. 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z
Rats must gnaw, and constantly, because their sharp, hard incisors grow continuously throughout their lives — around four or five inches a year. Time to Check Your Pandemic-Abandoned Car for Rats 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z
What gnaws at me every time I eat a Luger porterhouse is the realization that it’s just another steak, and far from the best New York has to offer. Peter Luger Used to Sizzle. Now It Sputters. 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z
Backs and feet, yes, because Mr. Fox likes to please people who like to gnaw on them. The Evolution of a Restaurant Dish, From Vision to Revision 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z
We see the ways in which bullying and outsized media attention gnaw at these teens, who face the public eye with astounding courage. ‘Changing the Game’ Review: Fighting for the Right to Play 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z
She sniffs at the door, then bangs on the plastic with her huge paws, climbs on top, shakes the whole thing, gnaws at a corner with her enormous mouth. TV review: The Polar Bear Family And Me; Baby Makers: The Fertility Clinic 2013-01-07T22:30:01Z
In Jerusalem, by the thousands, they climb over one another like huge, mad rats to scale a high wall and gnaw their virus into the refugees on the other side. World War Z: Brad Pitt vs. the Zombies 2013-06-18T17:42:00Z
I would not say Mr. Rembold cooks comfort food, but a fair amount of it could be prescribed to treat the gnawing anxiety that Holly Golightly called the mean reds. The Food at Inga’s Bar Is Far From Bar Food 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z
Blame social insecurity, the gnawing fear of not being good enough. We’re still talking about Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball 50 years later. Here’s why. 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z
Other signs of mental distress, like severe tooth and stomach problems caused by the whales gnawing on their enclosures, are described. Movie Review: ‘Blackfish,’ a Documentary, Looks Critically at SeaWorld 2013-07-18T21:04:41Z
Worry and guilt begin to gnaw at Cromwell. Hilary Mantel’s Triumphant New Novel Brings Thomas Cromwell Across the Finish Line 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z
She remained through the end of the show’s run in Britain, a decision that still gnaws at her. Sex and Violence, Beyond the Script 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z
The blood group diet, as undergone by Cheryl Cole, where one gnaws on different foodstuffs according to one's group, may not involve much actual haematology: you don't say! So girls are not all as nice as pie. And your point is? 2011-01-02T00:07:17Z
Nearly every story in the collection features one or more bouts of ferocious sex during which shoulders and earlobes are gnawed and tongues half-swallowed. No Shrinking Violets: A Short Story Collection From Roxane Gay 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z
Even when they gnawed through not one, but two cages, and escaped. Rats in our house, rats in our streets: For New York rodents, so much depends on real estate 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z
She said that she photographed what “gnawed” at her. How Diane Arbus Became ‘Arbus’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z
Our accommodations were a municipal building, a cinder block structure around a courtyard with a fountain that didn’t work and an ash heap where skinny mutts gnawed leftovers. Explorer: Guatemala, Trekking in the Highlands 2011-03-25T18:55:16Z
“I didn’t know yet what drove this pattern of marriage and divorce, or my workaholism, the sleeplessness, or the dreaded gnawing anxiety I felt each morning before facing the day,” Folds writes. Review | Rock-musician memoirs have a distancing effect, but Ben Folds is as relatable as ever 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z
Jane Fonda gnawed her knuckles raw watching it, while South Koreans, Germans and others found it chimed with their own experiences of state-sponsored cruelty. Sovremennik and the gates of hell 2011-01-04T21:31:00Z
Jack hears the voice of the Overlook as the novel progresses – his own touch of the shining – and it gnaws at him, turning him away from his family. Rereading Stephen King: week three – The Shining 2012-06-22T11:32:40Z
"There's always this nagging and gnawing heartache," David Smith said, "It's there every day, even if I'm not always conscious of it." Inside Susan Smith’s Life in Prison for Drowning Her 2 Sons 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z
Amy has left a diary, the record of a devoted wife’s growing suspicions and gnawing fear of her swine of a spouse, as well as the first clue in a brand-new treasure hunt. Gone Girl Plays a Fatal Game of Love and Marriage 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z
I know it’s not perfect in the way that something like “Pride and Prejudice” is, but it gnaws at me even more because of that. ‘Harry Potter’ Director’s 5 Influences: Kate Bush, Tennessee Williams and More 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z
This is the Easy Fire, the one that gnawed the perimeter of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, and it quickly disappears from sight. California will never stop burning 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z
Questions of American restlessness and rootlessness may gnaw at you while chatting with fellow audience members at the communal tables. Review: In ‘Lewiston/Clarkston,’ America at a Crossroads (Plus Dinner) 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z
At RISD, her initial euphoria turned to gnawing self-doubt, when a bad experience with a student monitor and some deflating critiques sent her spiraling. Seeing the Art World Through Personal and Political Lenses 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z
“People were worried. They were sweating with anxiety. When the hunger was at its worst, they thought about gnawing on stones.” Little Sugarcoating in Cao Wenxuan’s Children’s Books 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z
Impatiently, he reflected that his life didn’t make sense to him, a feeling that had gnawed at him for a long while. A Writer’s Controversial Past That Will Not Die 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z
The gnawing mystery wasn’t how he spent his time, but how I’d registered, if at all, in his heart. Google broke my heart 2012-12-04T01:00:00Z
But then she wouldn’t stop gnawing on the cup. Dog Feats Reach New Heights 2014-04-11T22:23:16Z
Those weak moments, while gnawing on a bamboo shoot, do they think, What is life all about? Your guide for what not to ask actors at Cannes 2011-05-13T16:14:00Z
My argument was that no amount of formidable dignity can stop a mob of men who are gnawing on a woman’s first name like it’s a leg of smoked turkey. Perspective | Never underestimate how much people hate Nancy Pelosi 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z
The primary plot strand in “The Harvest” — will Josh go, or will Michaela and maybe Tom persuade him to stay? — didn’t exactly have me gnawing my fingernails in suspense. Review: In ‘The Harvest,’ a Crisis of Feeling for Young Evangelicals 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z
“With hindsight, she takes us through incidents and aggressions from her life, each one being pushed into the pit of her stomach, gnawing at her, getting heavier as she carries the cumulative weight,” Wyver wrote. Benedict Lombe Wins the Blackburn Prize for ‘Lava’ 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z
Yet I've learned in my life that the best antidote to those gnawing day-to-day fears is just trying anyway. A weeknight soufflé that's even faster than the Stouffer's classic 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z
It was life-changing: we fulfilled ambitions that had been gnawing away at us for years. Riot grrrl: searching for music's young female revolutionaries 2013-03-18T16:33:46Z
A year ago the possibility that the City Opera, crippled by a gnawing deficit and a leadership crisis, might fail seemed all too possible. Fraught Seasons at Met and City Opera 2010-05-08T21:35:00Z
Both were killed, leaving Grade with a gnawing lifelong guilt. In the Papers of Yiddish Novelist Chaim Grade, Clues to His Lesser Fame 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z
Michael Cunningham has a gnawing suspicion that his books are boring. Michael Cunningham Couldn’t Help but Write a Pandemic Novel 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z
Ribs, on the other hand, demand to be devoured caveman-style, ripped apart with bare hands and gnawed right off the bone. 6 Steps to the Best Barbecued Ribs 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z
Among Russian olive bushes and Italianate columns, elites who gnawed on Wagyu beef and lobster salad there, at various times earlier this month, included Suzanne Clark, the leader of the U.S. Washington Society Steps Back Out 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z
“Its achievement is that it tries to marshal the anger which ever since 1963 has been gnawing away on some dark shelf of the national psyche.” Jackie: behind the creation of JFK, America's once and future king 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z
Guggenheim says he initially declined to do a second film on the same subject, but the idea kept gnawing at him, partly because he hadn't achieved what he'd hoped with the first film. Film director Davis Guggenheim hopes to reveal inconvenient truths about schools 2010-09-22T23:09:00Z
It is a picture of power and corruption and the enormous insecurities that gnaw at the autocratic mind. Review | Pared down and dumbed down, ‘Don Carlo’ still dazzles at the Kennedy Center 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z
Two ideas in particular seemed to gnaw at producers: relevance and credibility. Tom Ewing 2010-12-23T22:14:01Z
Harley gnawed on my hand as I tried to measure his elbow. Personal Journeys: We’re Heading to London! (But How to Take the Dog?) 2013-12-04T17:05:05Z
Instead, mulch piled against the lower trunk promotes decay of the tree’s protective bark, harbors gnawing rodents and causes roots to grow detrimentally. Americans love mulch — and many of us are misusing it 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z
Or the gnawing sense that his dippy secretary Meredith is the only person concerned with his well-being on a day-to-day basis? 'Mad Men' recap: Goodbye to Shangri-La 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z
A middle-aged academic-looking man approaches me as I gnaw on a piece of steak. On the Road with “Little Failure,” Part III 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z
My theory as a writer in terms of how you create drama is that you figure out the question you’re obsessed with—what’s the fear that is gnawing at your existential soul? Why Showtime's The Affair Will Be as Intense as Game of Thrones 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z
He’s a good physical comedian, especially when he gnaws a breath mint like a bunny. ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ Review: Yells Like Teen Spirit 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z
It's an idle question, but it gnaws at them. Omar Musa brings Australian hip-hop, poetry and subculture to the US in 'Here Come the Dogs' 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z
My husband broke off a piece of his waffle the other night for her; she gnawed on it while the rest of us ate dinner. The secret ingredient in this waffle recipe makes my kids giggle 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z
Only one thing gnawed at her as she headed for the parking lot. How to Tell if That Peach Is Ripe? Ask Southern California’s ‘Produce Hunter’ 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z
Look for freshly gnawed tree stumps and beaver dams. Who needs Pokémon when you have real Washington wildlife? 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z
But when the author concentrates on the young women, the writing is fresh and true, and it nibbles and gnaws at the heart. Desolate Heaven – review 2013-02-14T13:27:31Z
But basically the ensemble is only scenery for Mr. Spacey to gnaw upon. Theater Review: Kevin Spacey?s ?Richard III,? Staged by Sam Mendes - Review 2012-01-19T03:01:14Z
But after playing his guitar at jam sessions and receiving a CD of the Balfa Brothers, Porche felt a strange gnawing inside. Locals love French immersion in Nova Scotia 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z
He would just have to gnaw his arm off. A Grand Canyon and slot-canyon challenge for the mostly over-the-hill set
“Feisty” apparently means projectile vomiting, gnawing on a clergyman’s face, spending a bit of time on the ceiling, watching her own blood congeal into pictogram-shaped bruises and demolishing an entire sitting room. 'Penny Dreadful' Recap: What's the Matter With Ethan? 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z
Shot and edited on VHS tape that seems to have been fermented in a Dumpster, then gnawed by angry raccoons, the characters’ gleeful exploits unspool in freaky — and punishingly repetitive — vignettes. | 'Trash Humpers': Harmony Korine?s Geriatric Delinquents 2010-05-07T00:19:00Z
But even more to the point, I like to gnaw on the cartilage and nibble the skin, both impossible with boneless, skinless pieces. Crisp Chicken, Tender Rhubarb and a Brilliant Sheet-Pan Meal 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z
I wrote this record presuming it would be an Angels of Light record, but there was this gradual gnawing at the back of my mind. Swans' Michael Gira: how I write lyrics 2010-10-19T12:55:00Z
Now, with Nicola’s arrival, different but similar feelings of being pushed to the margins gnaw at him. Review: ‘Dada Woof Papa Hot,’ About Gay Men and Parenthood 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z
It turns out Daryl’s semi-psychotic, racist brother Merle managed to gnaw his way through the handcuffs Rick put him in way back in Season 1. The Walking Dead Watch: The Governor Commeth 2012-10-29T14:54:06Z
Unicorn Theater’s “The Velveteen Rabbit,” a stage adaptation of Margery Williams’s beloved 1922 picture book at the New Victory Theater, pays sweet and occasionally sorrowful tribute to every plaything loved, gnawed and hugged into tatters. Review: ‘The Velveteen Rabbit’ Is a Tribute to the Less Flashy Toy 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z
But if these exchanges gnaw at you, then, sure, shift your answer a bit: “Thanks for asking. Are you offering a job or asking a favor?” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Best friend blows up over last-minute destination wedding 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z
Screaming children, cake gone wrong, and that pathetic, gnawing feeling that, wait, didn't I used to be cooler than this? "Shrek" returns to form 2010-05-21T12:01:00Z
Christopher replies, his conscience and his knighthood gnawing away at him. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – digested read 2013-04-28T16:00:01Z
Even when I haven’t been the person picking up the order, the restaurant feels close, thanks to the scent of smoke offered up by the bagged feast and later, in the smoke-imbued gnawing. Review | If family-style takeout is on the menu, these 3 restaurants have a whole lot to offer 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z
I was hungry, with the sort of gnawing afternoon appetite that takes only a few minutes to mutate into muttering irascibility. Soy on the Lower East Side 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z
Graeber thinks that a sense of uselessness gnaws at everything that makes them human. The Bullshit-Job Boom 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z
And the cane itself, when I gnawed it, released a burst of sugary juice tinged with the meaty slick of the eel. Personal Journeys : Learning to Love ‘the People’s Food’ in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2013-05-02T23:30:49Z
Charles and his team are interested in the questions that keep you up at night, the ones that really gnaw at you — and the podcast wants to help you solve them. What to Cook This Week 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z
When in a hurry, I’d grab a landjäger, rip it open and gnaw on it on the way to the subway. My Upper East Side Story: Pizza, Schnitzel, a Piano Bar 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z
As a truly wild place, there are lots of things that can sting, bite, poison or, in the case of mt. lions, gnaw your hindquarters for lunch. Along the Rio Grande, a Hot Spring and a Warm Welcome 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z
Yet the notion that Wilson is a genius and he merely a journeyman gnaws deeply. Mike Love Still Can’t Harmonize With the Beach Boys 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z
It gnawed at me then and still does now. In health care access, doctor privilege is real. This is how it works 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z
The next morning, we climbed aboard the dinghy and headed to the closest cay, home to a sanctuary of green turtles, dozens of them swimming peacefully everywhere we looked, gnawing at mouthfuls of underwater grass. A sailing trip in the Grenadines, with a steep learning curve
If it weren't for Oscar ambitions, and the occasional gnawing of a studio boss's conscience to produce movies his friends might want to see, films like Affleck's and Fincher's might not be made at all. Box Office: 'Saw 3D' Slashes to No. 1 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z
I may have correctly guessed that one detail about her history, but I didn’t know enough about her to satisfy the curiosity gnawing at my gut now that she was my ex’s new girlfriend. All Twisted Up by Gender Bending 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z
In fact, the word “rodent” comes from the same Latin root as “erode” — rodere, meaning “to gnaw.” Time to Check Your Pandemic-Abandoned Car for Rats 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z
But this new show still has a tension and a claustrophobia that gnaw away at you, making you look into your own psyche. Last night's TV 2010-04-24T23:00:00Z
Ever since Nicolas Roeg's peerless Don't Look Now, the image of a little girl running through a forest is one that gnaws at the recesses of the parental imagination. Rewind TV: Boardwalk Empire; The Big C; Louis Theroux ? Ultra Zionists; Welcome to Romford 2011-02-06T00:05:43Z
Or he might have been the impoverished street boy who comes calling in the opening pages of A Christmas Carol , his nose “gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold as bones are gnawed by dogs.” Perspective | It’s Christmas. Let the murder begin. 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z
This gnawing unpredictability pervades the fourth season’s eight episodes, with Neptune and Veronica depicted as entities caught between the tensions of past and future, expectation and tough reality. "Veronica Mars" contends with the mystery and tragedy of growing up 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z
At the time, Hari was one in a spirited parade of teenagers inclined — eager, in fact — to share with the photographer and filmmaker Michael Sharkey their passions, hopes and sometimes gnawing anxieties. Style That Demands to Be Seen 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z
The artificiality, all those people gnawing on turkey legs, the standing in line, that infernal “It’s a Small World” song looping and looping — I get it. What I Discovered by Visiting Every Disney Park 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z
That patchwork gnaws away at this album's emotional impact. Kanye West: Do not disturb 2010-11-20T01:25:00Z
But without those kinds of external threats, the sad gnaw of solitude quickly sets in, a deep-seated melancholy infusing the solo-act-in-space that was Silent Running, the eco-conscious preface to Moon. Going solo: the grinding power of the single-actor film 2011-03-25T12:13:18Z
I had no quality of life: I couldn’t get that gnawing rat out of my hip. But what if I actually need painkillers? 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z
And with that comes the whole existential shooting match, the gnawing knowledge of mortality, the endless thrum of fear and futility, the tears on a small face smeared with melted Maltesers. Death wears Mickey Mouse ears: how Disney is doing parents a favour 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z
Throughout the show pieces of Picasso are everywhere, puzzled together, piled up like kindling, broken up, gnawed on, inserted wherever there’s room. Art Review: A Mind Where Picasso Meets Looney Tunes 2011-01-27T22:41:49Z
Franco is a pugnacious buffoon with a gnawing Napoleonic complex who just wants to prove that he was no fool. | 'Spy Garbo': Long Gone, but Fighting Hard Not to Be Forgotten 2011-03-11T22:33:28Z
Their failure to connect with larger audiences seems to gnaw at him. Cee Lo Green: 'I'd do a lot more damage if I could' 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z
In a long monologue, he sings of his conflicting desires and of the gnawing curse placed on the ring. Review: The Met’s ‘Walküre’ Has a Cast Worth Bragging About 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z
Frasier was eating those devil eggs so hard that I thought he was going to mess around and gnaw off his index finger. Deviled eggs that even God would cosign 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z
What’s new about this study, however, is that it offers validation of what for many of us has been a gnawing fear: that the trolls really do hold tremendous power of persuasion. Does reading the comments affect your judgment? 2013-03-04T21:00:00Z
Others were sticking it out, though the landslide victory by Fidesz in the elections in April — despite an unlikely coalition made up of wildly divergent opposition parties — left them with a gnawing sense of hopelessness. Reckoning With Memories of Budapest 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z
As they walked, the child’s father drew Iturbide’s attention to a man’s corpse lying on the pavement, still partly dressed, his flesh gnawed away by birds. Graciela Iturbide’s Art of Seeing Mexico 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z
The construction boom now gnawing away the old city, he said, “started in the 1960s and ’70s, but stopped in 1975 because of the war.” Middle East: Beirut's Old Buildings Again Under Threat 2011-01-26T20:00:05Z
The robbers were arrested and sent to jail, but 50 years later that still gnaws at my friend. Is civilization good? Author Jared Diamond investigates 2012-12-29T03:08:49Z
Except that a sick worm is gnawing inside me. My secret hoarding shame: I lived with my trash. It was time to throw it all away 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z
Mr. Allen calls these unresolved thoughts, projects or tasks “open loops,” and Mr. Bailey argues that they gnaw away at our attention. May I Have My Attention, Please? 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z
Thoughts about the irreplaceable artists of her youth and the idea of legacy started to gnaw at her as she approached 40 last year. Karen O and Danger Mouse Made an Album. It Only Took 11 Years. 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z
After gnawing on them, you won’t want to go back to the little guys. New in New York: 3 restaurants with flash, flair and flavor. 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z
It was, of course, another classic, setting up Hoffman for a career of incredible versatility, though insecurity seems to gnaw at him even today. Dustin Hoffman: ‘I was an outsider. I came to New York and I was cleaning toilets’ 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z
“About 20 volunteers caged 60 trees, to discourage beavers from gnawing them and overeating. It also protects people from injury due to random trees falling,” he said. With beavers in the suburbs, park officials look to balance needs of humans and ‘nature’s engineers’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z
The most fascinating theory is put forth by Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, a man who, at his happiest, looks like irate ferrets are gnawing their way out of his colon. Dave Barry’s Year in Review: The sad thing is, we’re not making this up! 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z
Nowadays, writes Paul, “books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.” Pamela Paul’s memoir ‘My Life with Bob’ is a love letter to books 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z
If all the airport fatigue shows, it’s in the mildly delirious giggle that ripples through her conversation or the gnawed fingernails with their chipped black polish. Elizabeth Meriwether Writes Scripts for Stage and Screen 2010-05-08T02:42:00Z
This novel is a dark beast of desolate nostalgia but imbued with Heller's trademark sardonic humour and a gnawing and worrying truth. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z
Tony Soprano “searches for something to fill the gnawing void he feels; he fails to find it.” Books of The Times: Brett Martin’s ‘Difficult Men’ Sees a New Golden Age for TV 2013-06-24T21:26:42Z
Mr. Adams said he suspected a grim line about rats beginning to gnaw the sheets — what sheets? — of being an “Alice Goodman goodie.” Still Resonating From the Great Wall 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z
The nature-versus-nurture debate that most people leave in the classroom gnawed away at me for years as I tried to solve the unanswerable question of why I am what I am. Modern Love: Stuck at the Border Between the Sexes 2011-05-19T21:19:57Z
But alongside her seemingly frictionless ascent were gnawing refrains. Exhibition Review: ?Emma Lazarus? at Museum of Jewish Heritage - Review 2012-01-03T22:12:56Z
Read the first paragraph and you'll be hooked; by the bottom of page two, you'll have a distinct gnawing in the pit of your stomach. Kathryn Erskine's top 10 first person narratives 2012-02-09T12:13:49Z
In prehistoric times — when we were eating far more vegetables and gnawing at roots — it’s estimated that our ancestors consumed about 135 grams of inulin a day. Perspective | What is inulin, and why is it showing up in so many food products? 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z
The Three Gorges Dam — whose construction on the nearly 4,000-mile-long Yangtze was responsible for much of Chongqing’s growth — gnawed at him. Lost in China 2010-12-24T19:55:00Z
Julian Assange gnawing the threads of a rotting veil, severing the net. My Cancelled Detectives 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z
U Be Dead was very well done, with a nice rising tension that gnawed away at you. TV review: U Be Dead and The Yorkshire Dales On Film 2010-09-06T05:45:00Z
The documentary illustrates how under New Labour, individualism gnawed at the collectivist muscle, and the private sector moved deeper into the very last of the nationalised industries, the NHS. The Spirit of '45: where did it go? 2013-03-02T16:00:02Z
Everything requires a little gnawing, and is worth it. At Nepali Bhanchha Ghar, Splendor Comes Served on a Plate 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z
Each minute without Ms. Hill’s presence gnawed away at the collective good will in the room. Music Review: Worth the Wait? Just Ask Her 2010-12-29T23:00:41Z
And I don’t think it’s just me … I have this gnawing suspicion that tentpoles, the majors’ flagship movies, have stopped being the best advertisement for movies. Does Hollywood hate adults? 2012-07-07T22:00:00Z
But the fact that they have no children has begun to, um, gnaw. Books of The Times: ‘Breed’ by Chase Novak 2012-08-29T20:56:42Z
The piece serves as one chronological bookend in a gnawing brainworm of a show at the West Hollywood gallery Young Projects. This police video, 'Time Machine' and the scent of 'Apocalypse' will linger in your brain 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z
Small, roughly whittled and painted sculptures of animals by Wilhelm Schimmel, including a lively four-inch-tall bright red squirrel gnawing a nut, look as if they were made for a toddler’s toy box. ‘A Shared Legacy,’ at the American Folk Art Museum 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z
The knowledge leaves him "gnawed and tortured by some black trouble of the soul." Sex sins of mighty are old hat in literature 2011-06-15T22:06:00Z
I do have one gnawing doubt about Albers’s approach to the paintings. Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives 2011-07-08T15:56:48Z
In one, gay men nervously gnaw at their relationship as they wait for their surrogate to give birth. Review: In ‘Breeders,’ Parenting as a (Literal) Cage Match 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z
It was a harsh disconnect for an artist who brokers in transparency, and it was part of what was gnawing at her. How Hayley Williams Saved Herself (and, BTW, Paramore) 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z
The sight of two preteen girls found in the desert gnaws at him. A heartfelt lament on patrolling the border: Francisco Cantu's 'The Line Becomes a River' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z
Watching Giamatti and Lewis separately gnaw on their scenes is its own delight. “Hate is nature’s most perfect energy source”: Showtime’s “Billions” hits its stride in its return 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z
I told them I would call you and if I was wrong, I would gnaw off one of my pinkie fingers. Perspective | He had an important question for songwriter John Prine. The answer surprised him. 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z
As with hamsters, their teeth grow continuously, so make sure they have appropriate things to gnaw on. Choosing the best pet for your family
I understood the desperation of wanting to gnaw off my own limb to free myself. Shattered by childbirth 2014-03-16T00:00:00Z
Who is Shauna referring to when she invites her teammates to gnaw on Jackie’s corpse, now cooked to a crisp by the bonfire that was meant to cremate her? ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: Dig In 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z
That patchwork gnaws away at this album’s emotional impact. Kanye West, Still Unfiltered, on Eve of Fifth Album 2010-11-19T04:30:00Z
But Soderbergh did walk away from the experience — a satisfying and unique one, he says — with a gnawing sense of a larger existential crisis for movies. Soderbergh, Cheadle return to Detroit in ‘No Sudden Move’ 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z
Things go swimmingly — the conversation flows, along with the wine — until the next morning, when, awakening to removed clothes and a gnawing suspicion, Laura summons the police. How Did That Date Go? In ‘Liar,’ It Depends on Who’s Telling 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z
Some loafed in the fresh air, others gnawed on large blocks of blubber. In this Alaskan village, get nose-to-nose with polar bears 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z
A gnawing sense that the academy doesn’t understand movies, and maybe even hates them. Does the Academy Hold Movies in Contempt? Our Critics Wonder. 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z
She is gnawing on a crust of bread so dense it could cause a concussion. “I tell myself I will quit bingeing when I get diabetes”: Tales of a sugar addict 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z
Sometimes she drags the object around the house and gnaws at will. Animal Doctor: Cat develops an appetite for every kind of fabric 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z
There’s a futility to “Traffic Stop” that gnaws at the viewer’s conscience. Review | In HBO’s ‘Traffic Stop,’ one incident magnifies the civil rights issue of our time 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z
The hamster gnawed through the envelope and was rescued by a postman, who decided to name him First Class. Cat delivered alive and well after spending eight days in the post 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z
Still, the bird’s yearning for survival gnawed at us. Turkey’s great escape foils our Thanksgiving plans 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z
In the other, the gnawing is more literal. Review: In ‘Breeders,’ Parenting as a (Literal) Cage Match 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z
But Sidney, as someone murmurs, is "the angel of death," and her arrival has reawakened the snarky evil that gnaws at the heart of this horror-mad suburb. "Scream 4": More meta than ever! And almost as much fun 2011-04-14T00:35:00Z
The year in Bolivia still gnawed at him. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z
Note that patrons are urged to bring their digital devices — not to gnaw on, but to "tweet and text away" during the show. Bumbershoot preview: Theater performances 2011-09-01T21:07:40Z
But as warmly as Samuel feels about the Western, some elements of the genre have always gnawed at him. Giving the Western some swagger in ‘The Harder They Fall’ 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z
If I'm honest, that gnawing in the gut straight from 1988, makes me want to get straight out of Walsall, just as I "escaped" the Potteries . Why politicians fight shy of campaigning on the arts 2010-04-28T05:00:00Z
Bats eat bugs and, based on the midges gnawing on my arms, the cemetery was a giant pantry. Blond hedgehogs, and more alluring strangeness of the Channel Islands 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z
But now that that’s where we are, our relative comfort gnaws at us. How Thom Beers Built a Reality-TV Empire 2012-12-16T23:37:47Z
Father Coughlin, the radio priest whose weekly nationwide broadcast demonized Jews, gnawed at him. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z
“We shot for a year and I find him fascinating, a man afire, gnawed by inner resistances and doubts.” Cannes Film Festival: Alain Cavalier's 'Pater': Private Musings of a Public Sort 2011-05-18T14:00:05Z
Nofar’s guilt gnaws at her even as she is hailed as an avatar of feminist empowerment; the singer is disgraced and imprisoned. What Happens When Girl Power Goes Wrong? 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z
Even prettier are the shots of the majestic oil well pumps, silently poking into the ground over and over again, gnawing away at this small town’s stasis. | 'Boomtown': A Little Place That Finds Itself Receiving Big Money 2011-01-29T00:03:18Z
But right now, mostly, there are toys to pick up, shocking headlines to scroll and a gnawing sense of helplessness. Did they make a difference? One year later, Women’s March attendees look back. 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z
Now, whenever I think back to one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen on television, I will instead imagine a child gnawing away happily on a pizza. Maisie Williams: ‘I was covered in blood and gnawing on pizza’ 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z
“Living where we live and seeing each season devour the last so wholly. Roadkill and the rivers gnawing out the roads, all the dead animals and hearing them die at night.” Their Family Movie Nights Can Get a Little Bloody 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z
At center stage for most of the drama is a round table set for a celebratory dinner, surrounded by black cane chairs, the kind that gnaw into your back at formal functions. Review: ‘Hamlet’ as an After-Party That Got Out of Hand 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z
This raises the question, dear reader: would you rather star in an unauthorized musical parody of “Fifty Shades of Grey” or be gnawed on by feral foxes? Theater Review: ‘Cuff Me!’ a ‘Fifty Shades’ Parody 2013-06-09T20:47:12Z
We sat at a vast kitchen island punctuated with a confusing number of lemons as her dog, Pepper, gnawed on a bone in a sun-dappled living room. Kacey Musgraves’s Expanding Universe 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z
So was the rest of the show, where an air of desperation gnawed at the employees, trapped as they were by their dead-end jobs and obligatory contact with their overwhelming boss. 'The Office': shutting down on NBC after 8 years 2013-05-14T14:26:08Z
You eat at picnic tables hemmed in by murals halfway between graffiti and hallucination, without knives or forks, gnawing meat off the bone like the happy animal you are. The Top 10 Cheap (and Well-Traveled) Places to Eat in 2016 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z
This has been gnawing at me for months. I Found Condoms in My Son’s Room. What Should I Do Now? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z
Writing on the Granta website, Toby Litt attempts to get to the root of the issue I’ve outlined above: that technology is gnawing away at readers, writers and the novel itself. Novels about the Internet can still be compelling 2013-01-19T23:00:00Z
But in rewatching parts of the first series and the first three episodes of this new one, the overriding sense of warmth, nostalgia and comfort started to gnaw at me. Class-system melodrama as comfort food 2011-04-08T15:31:00Z
Although he is of their own invention, his presence on their laptop gnaws away at their sense of consumerist security, his wildness horrifying them while stirring some repressed animal spirit. Wild Life ? review 2011-03-09T19:15:01Z
“If Trump manages to smash America’s institutions, it will only be because GOP termites have been gnawing away at the foundations for years with baseless claims of voter shenanigans,” she said. Samantha Bee criticizes Trump claims: 'For the record, massive voter fraud is a lie' 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z
For three months he entangles himself in her sheets and her life while guilt gnaws away at him. Review: In ‘Oh My Sweet Land,’ Dinner Is Served. Don’t Come Hungry. 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z
I will probably crave the grass-fed beef I gnawed there for the rest of my life, but Borowitz’s talent goes way beyond grilling. Trendy Tel Aviv is a hearty foodie find 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z
At Burden's Topanga Canyon compound, Moses once found Burden with his hand gnawed by a coyote. Remembering Chris Burden: 'Testing the limits of everything,' friends say 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z
Still, she couldn’t shake off a gnawing unease. Jeannette Walls Settles Down Far From the Noise of New York 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z
There are dozens of tales of cannibalism at sea, stories of desperate sailors clinging to life by gnawing on the bones of their dead shipmates. 7 historical cases of cannibalism 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z
This is a fine thing to gnaw on the sidewalk, mouth burning, by a food truck with bright green hubcaps and a beach scene with silhouetted palms on its flank. Meals for (Mostly) Everyone at Divine Flavored Nigerian Food Truck 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z
The book contains an unexplained war, love gained and lost, a baron gnawing on a rat for nourishment, and a very large hole called the Very Large Hole. Review: Novels by Alexandra Kleeman, Edward St. Aubyn and More 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z
Singer-songwriter Dylan Baldi vocally gnaws at the microphone, though only when he’s butchering his strings over his now trademark garage punk. Cloud Nothings' Attack on Memory: An Aural Assault on the Heart 2012-01-24T17:59:07Z
We saw — and heard — a hyena gnawing on the bones of a wildebeest with vultures biding their time, circling in the pale sky. How to plan your life-changing (but expensive) safari 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z
And with that, she smiles and gnaws off a big mouthful of chicken wing. Gizzi Erskine: 'Arrggh! Don't call me a domestic cook' 2013-03-30T14:00:02Z
None of that is shocking but in the aggregate, it gnaws away at the spirit. Netflix’s “The Defenders” isn’t the best Marvel series, but it may be what we need right now 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z
Really, I was far more worried about my child contracting a vaccine-preventable disease—he was probably whiling away the hours in day care gnawing on other babies’ teething rings. My pediatrician was an anti-vaxxer 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z
He sees his mother’s smile, the teeth gnawed to arrowheads. Review: In Rita Dove’s Verse, Tangy Words to Savor 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z
Here, she is shown gorging on an endless feast, about to stuff an entire squid into her mouth in one picture, gnawing on beef, sausage and poultry in others. Q. and A. With Vogue Paris Editor 2010-09-29T18:44:00Z
But gnawing at the creative team was the sense that it stopped the storytelling. ‘The Universe Hit Pause’: The Ripple Effects of Broadway’s Shutdown 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z
“It makes you understand the thrill and the sweat, the pain and the power, the gnawing hunger and what the phrase ‘seeing stars’ really means,” Lyn Gardner wrote in The Guardian. How to Throw Punches Without Getting Hurt 2011-02-25T14:52:59Z
The declarative ring of that statement — along with its murky generality and its gnawing desperation — sums up the mood of the album, the most musically ambitious yet released by Mr. Sheff and his crew. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-05-09T22:28:22Z
Everything seemed perfect except the gnawing feeling that I had no idea who I was or what I was doing. Lena Dunham on Love Island: ‘I'm asking the same question they do – can you love after hurt?’ 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z
But he did have some pretty great ideas about what we might wear while we waited, gnawing our fingernails, to find out. Calvin Klein’s Style Sharknado 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z
The bread is thin but dense, its corners lovely to gnaw on. A Menu of Moroccan Tradition, and Generosity, in Brooklyn 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z
Another man gnaws on lettuce, which he claims calms his fears during air raids. Top 5 investigative videos: Stoned on the job 2013-04-27T18:00:00Z
All those things, when you say them out loud sound ridiculous, but they stay in there and gnaw at you.” Jason Isbell, Self-Doubt and the Album That Tested His Marriage 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z
You know when your kids can’t sleep, your husband’s night screams are keeping you awake and you can’t shake off that vague sense of gnawing, corroding guilt? From the time Trump's tweets disappeared to David Davis's Brexit diary: satirists take on the news 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z
All of this engendered a real love of outer space in me – and that gnawing feeling that we might not be alone. If only a Scotsman had boldly gone… 2013-07-13T23:05:54Z
Another guess was that it came from the Latin mordere, "to bite," and thus meant "to indulge in biting, stinging, or gnawing thoughts of slaughter." 7 fake words that actually ended up in the dictionary 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z
No, not the moist, lemony towelette you use to degrease your fingers after gnawing on hot wings. Skin Deep: Wipe on, Wipe Off: March of the Towelettes 2011-08-17T18:36:32Z
Misunderstood and feared, many clones end their new lives in suicide, suffering always from a “gnawing sense of being incomplete,” FitzSimmons writes. A Human Cloning Error and Existential Questions Fuel This Science Fiction Romp 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z
Saying "she was nervous" is much less effective than something like "she gnawed on her lip, wringing her hands, unable to look him in the eye". Top tips for teen writers: Beth Reekles 2013-01-23T11:29:31Z
The ensemble behaved like a contraption that shook, sifted, crawled, growled, gnawed, groaned, and sang. The Troubadour and the Lady 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z
On a recent visit to Osteria, I began eating the casalinga daintily, with a knife and fork, but by the end was gnawing at the bones. Eating the Easter Bunny 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z
As she gnaws, shakes and claws at her victim, her noisy snorting and snuffling is a primitive forest symphony. Review: There's Lots of Suffering in The Revenant, But Bear With It 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z
Or one of those unsettling, ambiguous ones that gnaws at you long after you’ve finished the show? 2020 reads like a TV script. So we asked screenwriters how it should end. 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z
Though focusing her ire on the wedding as a false celebration — “I’ve seen more convincing fire drills,” she says — Carlo is really gnawing at the scar of attachment itself. ‘At the Wedding’ Review: Cocktails, Dancing and an Albatross 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z
But the question of privacy continued to gnaw at me. It’s my mother’s fault I stole her letters 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z
“The gnawing spectre of hunger is always hanging over my head.” Jason Rohrer and the Art of the Video Game 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z
Aside from the gnawing guilt, Kylie is wearing her pregnancy well. The month in soap: Alice the spy nanny and the state of the Platt DNA 2013-06-01T05:00:21Z
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