Gnawn

Word GNAWN
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Morrice, ashamed of his exploit, and frightened by the looks of Mr Monckton, made an apology with the utmost humility, and hurried away: and Mr Monckton, hopeless of any better fortune, soon did the same, gnawn with a cruel discontent which he did not dare avow, and longing. to revenge himself upon Morrice, even by personal chastisement. ❋ Unknown (2008)

My bed shall be abused, my coffers ransacked, my reputation gnawn at; and I shall not only receive this villanous wrong, but stand under the adoption of abominable terms, and by him that does me this wrong. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The bones of the cutlets were decorated with pink frills – and yesterday he had gnawn ham from the bone! ❋ Unknown (2004)

This hotel stands in the principal street of Lincoln, and within a very short distance of one of the ancient city-gates, which is arched across the public way, with a smaller arch for foot-passengers on either side; the whole, a gray, time-gnawn, ponderous, shadowy structure, through the dark vista of which you look into the Middle Ages. ❋ Various (N/A)

You are fleeced by these landlords for their private benefit, and as well kept under by the public burdens of State, wherein while the richer sort favour themselves, ye are gnawn to the very bones. ❋ Joseph Clayton (N/A)

Before thee the Stygian pools [296-329] shook for fear, before thee the warder of hell, couched on half-gnawn bones in his blood-stained cavern; to thee not any form was terrible, not Typhoeus 'self towering in arms; thou wast not bereft of counsel when the snake of Lerna encompassed thee with thronging heads. ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)

Neither shrink thou at the gnawn tables that await thee; the fates will find a way, and Apollo aid thy call. ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)

'Like blazing torches,' and 'like bare gnawn bones.' ❋ Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys (1909)

The bones of the cutlets were decorated with pink frills - and yesterday he had gnawn ham from the bone! ❋ Virginia Woolf (1911)

By treason’s tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit, 18136 ❋ Unknown (1909)

He has a little rat-gnawn, brown-grey beard, moustaches, high cheek-bones, hollow cheeks, small fiery eyes. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)

At the corner of the plaza he dismounted and led his horse to the public hitching-post -- gnawn and nibbled by the teeth of generations of mustangs -- and turned into the narrow lane flanked by the walls of the Alcalde's garden. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

Taking a stump of cedar pencil from his pocket, one end of it much gnawn, he added a few scrawls to the inscriptions, and then stood on the seat to look out of the round window, which was darkened by an old cobweb. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

"Oh, you needn't call me a wretch," said the weasel; "I am sure you ought to be grateful to me, for your wife was very jealous because you paid so much attention to the Miss Mouse you want to marry now, and in the night she meant to have gnawn your throat." ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

The ferret had therefore deliberately gnawn away the hindquarters and so bored a passage. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

Nor could they find a bundle in a handkerchief, which they would have gnawn through speedily. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

Numberless, gnawn by the herds who attend on the pitiless sea-gods, ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

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