Gnaw

(verb.) bite or chew on with the teeth; 'gnaw an old cracker'.

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• Mention that, if you please, to your companions, and never gnaw at the bars of your cage again as long as you live. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I'd be willing to live in the swamps, and gnaw the bark from trees. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Rats were hunted eagerly; cowhide was gnawed and sawdust devoured to stay the pangs of hunger. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But the idea of Beaufort gnawed him. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Usually he was ashy and wretched, with all the life gnawed out of him. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Still she was gnawed as by a neuralgia, tormented by his potential absence from her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The mice have gnawed at it, and sharper teeth than teeth of mice have gnawed at me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• But the rough wall of wax has in every case to be finished off, by being largely gnawed away on both sides. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• 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. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But he avoided her look, she sank her head in torment and shame, the gnawing at her heart going on. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Here was a little piece of miserable, gnawing confirmation. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• She gnaws her chain; I see the white teeth working at the steel! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• If you knew the harassing anxiety that gnaws and wears me when I am wandering in those places--where are those endless places, Mortimer? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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