Bitten

Examples

• Then he has bitten through his amber. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The moment he had done so, he could have bitten his tongue out. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He had been bitten in the face, and was taking the treatment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He said the fighting was over for the year down here and that the Italians had bitten off more than they could chew. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• In October a shepherd lad, who, though badly bitten himself, had saved some other children from the attack of a rabid dog, was the second one to benefit b y the great discovery. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Paragon's little nose too was very pretty, even when red and frost-bitten; and she had a beautiful mole on her clear brown cheek. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• We have both been biting, and we have both been bitten. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He had been severely bitten by a m ad dog. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I was sitting at the foot of the bed, wishing Ph?be had not bitten me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I was early bitten with an interest in structure, and it is what lies most directly in my profession. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Gunto, her husband, has cruelly bitten her! Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• What another nature felt in opposition to her own was being burnt and bitten into her consciousness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Then, whimpering again, and at intervals biting the curls, and stopping to look how much was bitten off, 'It's a shame! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Everywhere scattered fugitives, ragged, lean, and frost-bitten, spread the news of the disaster. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Every body knows the picture of the Coliseum; every body recognizes at once that looped and windowed band-box with a side bitten out. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He was bitten too near the top of the spinal column, and came too late! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In short he was as much afraid of it as though he had been bitten by a mad dog. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• One patient, brought to him thirty-seven days after being bitten, he failed to save. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Two have been cut by a not very sharp knife, and two have had the ends bitten off by a set of excellent teeth. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The hand he gave me was the hand I had bitten. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Editor: Stephen