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He was searching for something that had been gnawing at him all day.

Hotels and food, and I'm walking about like a leper with crabs gnawing at my entrails.

I saw her in corners, in spots with merely the faintest glimmer of light, poring over her books like a rat gnawing at something.

The thick, ungainly boots can cut off a woman's legs in a most unflattering way - resembling two stuffed animals gnawing at the feet.

Would you shake your finger at me and say, "What an ungrateful wretch of a bird! It is gnawing at its chain day and night" ?

Those deep and heavy grass, just like real spirits, had already been corroded and withered. A rabbit, is gnawing at its own species.

It's a classic image of horror: mangy, greasy rats crawling out of the decaying human corpse they've been gnawing at.

Originally found gnawing at the roots of the World Tree during an excavation, this magnificent Chimaera's age is impossible to determine.

When a beaver is perched on its hind legs gnawing at trees, it uses its tail to keep a balance.

And what despair and frustration must be gnawing at the rescuers?

Or else regret over losing Les was gnawing at her delicate constitution.

Some years ago, Hilary Putnam raised the following question, which analytic philosophy has been gnawing at ever since.

Freed bywarming, waters once locked beneath ice are gnawing at coastal settlementsaround the Arctic Circle.

He is even hungrier now. He pulls off a leather shoe and starts gnawing at an ankle.

The rabbits are gnawing at the fence.

The dog was gnawing at a bone.

The victims are often afflicted with diabetes, which causes numbness in the feet, and they can't feel the dog gnawing at them.

So they get up and go to work, hoping that a paycheck will kill that fear gnawing at their soul.