Use gnawing in a sentence
Sentences ending with gnawing
- Is the pain a kind of dull ache--a gnawing? [13]
- Hear them gnawing! [13]
More example sentences with the word gnawing in them
- Even now, when we are again among men and the wine has refreshed me, I feel as if rats were gnawing at my soul. [10]
- I did not want to wake Harris a second time, but the gnawing continued until I was compelled to throw the other shoe. [5]
- Or had mice wandered to this barren place, where hard brown blades of grass grew between the crusts of salt and the bare spots, and were gnawing the prisoners' hard bread? [10]
- She could say to herself that, of all sins, the one farthest from her nature was envy; but what she felt toward this stealer of love fatally resembled sharp, gnawing ill will. [10]
- It was probably the one beginning: "What plague spot or bacilli were gnawing at the heart of this metropolis and bringing it on bended knee? [5]
- Yet despite this, the housekeeper saw that the longing for his son was gnawing at the old man's heart, and had she been able to write she would have let Melchior know how things stood and begged him to return to Leipsic. [10]
- Joshua now knew that it was the youth's sharp teeth gnawing the rope which had caused the noise that had just surprised him, and he immediately stood up and looked first upward and then around him. [10]
- The sick man's speech was scarce to be heard, and as to all that Master Ulsenius told us of the seat of his ill, and of how it was gnawing him to death I would fain be silent. [10]
- When the flame of the sulphur splinters kindled by the tinder burned up, first blue and then red, Shcherbinin lit the tallow candle, from the candlestick of which the cockroaches that had been gnawing it were running away, and looked at the messenger. [2]
- A gnawing feeling of homesickness for the free out-of-door life, the wandering from place to place, the careless, untrammelled people to whom she belonged, took possession of her. [10]
- But she did not dwell upon this, now, when fear was gnawing her: how she had humbled her pride for days and weeks and months for him, and how he had refused her paltry request lest he should be laughed at. [9]
- But it came nearer still, and still nearer--and at last it was right in the room: it was merely a mouse gnawing the woodwork. [5]
- Either some passion is gnawing at him inwardly, or some hidden disease is at work upon him. [6]
- It still seemed incredible that he, too, who had so much, should feel that gnawing need for human sympathy and understanding that had so often made her unhappy. [9]
- She felt as if a worm were gnawing there, and the warm blood congealing into ice. [10]
- And had not his features and his look betrayed to her that pain was gnawing at his vitals like the vulture at those of Prometheus? [10]
- Dick had a hideous, gnawing suspicion that somewhere in these deep shades the schoolmaster might meet Elsie, whose evening wanderings he knew so well. [6]
- Such gnawing and grinding disturb the sleep of one who longs for slumber; but Joshua desired to keep awake to continue to open the eyes of the blinded youth, yet he waited in vain for any sign of life from his nephew. [10]
- What is this gnawing of conscience I am feeling now? [2]
- Though my hunger for Nancy was still gnawing, I had begun to fear that I should never get her now; and the fact that she would not even write to me seemed to confirm this. [9]
- Remorse of conscience drove him mad, and tradition presents us the singular spectacle of a god traveling "on the shoulder;" for in his gnawing grief he wandered about from place to place boxing and wrestling with all whom he met. [5]
- Mainly they were drinking--from entire ox horns; but a few were still munching bread or gnawing beef bones. [5]
- There was a canker gnawing at his heart; the noblest inspiration of his soul eluded his endeavor--viz: he could not make of the turnip a climbing vine. [5]
- Mr. Bernard felt, at first, as one does who sees a gray rat steal out of a drain and begin gnawing at the bark of some tree loaded with fruit or blossoms, which he will soon girdle, if he is let alone. [6]
- Such a town as that has to be always moving back, and back, and back, because the river's always gnawing at it. [5]
- It is almost as injurious as remorse gnawing at your heart. [10]
- He raised himself and listened to the deep breathing of the sleepers on his right and left, and the gnawing of a mouse under the bed. [10]
- Yet in Spain and during the journey back she had felt a gnawing longing for Germany, nay, nothing had troubled her more than the thought of dying and being buried outside of its frontier. [10]
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