Gnawed

Examples

• Rats were hunted eagerly; cowhide was gnawed and sawdust devoured to stay the pangs of hunger. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the idea of Beaufort gnawed him. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Usually he was ashy and wretched, with all the life gnawed out of him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Still she was gnawed as by a neuralgia, tormented by his potential absence from her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The mice have gnawed at it, and sharper teeth than teeth of mice have gnawed at me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But the rough wall of wax has in every case to be finished off, by being largely gnawed away on both sides. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I only know the result was as if I had gnawed a file to satisfy hunger, or drank brine to quench thirSt. My hour of torment was the post-hour. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The hungry man gnawed one of his fingers as he looked at the other three, and his finger quivered with the craving that was on him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

Typist: Miranda