A newspaper rattled somewhere above, as if it had been lowered out of the way, to see what all this unpleasant nipping was about.

(There was no nipping of the midrib before feeding.

Bleeding hearts are generally a peaceful fish but fin nipping may become a problem as males can be territorial.

Alan felt the nipping of envy, morosely aware that he was heading into three years of briefing admirals and putting together dailies.

Cory Booker Nipping at Mayor James's heels is the 31-year-old Central Ward councilman who has everyone guessing what his next move might be.

Now, he was forced to juggle those items in order to free a hand with which to turn up his trench coat collar against the microdontic nipping of the drizzle.

The driver was a stocky, tough-looking fellow in a NIPPING A PLOT 65 leather jacket.

CHAPTER VIII NIPPING A PLOT TOM felt a surge of relief.

Note that, while the man's obvious wasp-like torso is not overly emphasized in a caricature-like fashion, as was often the case in male fashion plates of the day, there is a definite and deliberate nipping of the waist.

All across the country, there are great conference showdowns, like Kentucky's overhauling of Arkansas in overtime yesterday, like Wake Forest's last-second nipping of North Carolina, like Villanova's running off 17 straight points on UConn early in the second half.

LEAD: Nipping Disease in the Bud Nipping Disease in the Bud THE tree chairwoman of the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society would first like a point clarified.

His head felt as though it were being squeezed in the nipping press.

This was the contemptuous nipping approach of the dominant animal.

With no More than a third of the distance crossed, the nipping fissures caught her.

And the wind was still this same nipping breeze out of the north-west.

"The day was cold, with a nipping wind down the northward running streets.

The novel itself suffers under no such nipping restrictions.

Our native oak, as his partisans called him, was visited truly by a nipping winter.

Then, they had to search through the nipping crustaceans for a crab marked with Race colors.

"Well, it's like a spider, only a hundred times bigger, with great nipping claws and lots of hard armor."

To borrow half a line from Shakespeare, it was a barren winter's day of wrathful nipping cold.

The nipping kisses to her neck were destructive.

An hour later, there was another howl of terror, a moment's silence, and a lurid cursing of a nipping slide.

No nipping dogs, no uphill slogs, no stinging sleet.

Not bothered at all at being bonked on the head, Bruenor got his axe up to intercept the nipping pincer.

"When you finish with the water, Cerryl..." Tellis did not complete the sentence, preoccupied as he was with the nipping press in the corner.

I dropped off the stud and let him nose his way in past the gelding, urging him aside with an absent nipping motion of his mouth.

The Ticket Game Ningzhou Zhang had overslept, and he was paying for his sloth as a nipping rain fell on Lincoln Center.

In this low vale, the promise of the year, Serene thou openest to the nipping gale, Unnoticed and alone I ncognit O Thy tender elegance.

At the sound of footsteps in the front showroom, when Cerryl had written but a dozen lines on the slate, Tellis straightened from his repairs to the recalcitrant nipping press.

Good tankmates include non-fin nipping tetras, non-fin nipping barbs, corydoras, platys and other gouramis.

Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud, And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold; So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

The students of winter ecology agree that many more questions than answers remain as to how plants and animals make it through the "wrathful nipping cold" of winter, as Shakespeare put it.

The leaves were still thick on the apple trees, though they were russet hued, and the after-growth of grass was richly green, unharmed as yet by the nipping frosts of previous nights.

She lost herself in the lush sensations of sweet heat and driving friction, of long and hard kisses and hungry nipping ones, opening herself to him in ways she'd never opened herself to anyone.

After all, at the same time as Star Wars was coming out, film as a mass medium was about to face huge challenges from the rise of video and even more so computer games (a nipping presence at its heels ever since).

I'll just nip back and see if I can get the thing.

If only he could nip out and go to the police, things would still be all right.

Of course, she would have to nip him over that.

There's no one who is going to nip over at 1 in the morning.

They might nip me, just to check out what I am.

Well nip back and get it then if that's what you want.

The horse turned its head and started to nip him.

If so, do you think I could nip back and use your facilities?

Then she'll nip back through the library and up to her room.

Many other studies nip at the heels of the problem.

But they want to nip any such thing in the bud.

No I nip over to the shop and get it from near.

"But you might want to nip back over the side right sharp."

Look, I've got to nip out for a few hours.

We know how to nip most of them in the bud, early.

"So I can nip on down to the hold and release our men."

And I've been trying to nip that in the bud.

You nip to the toilet and I'll just have, stay here.

Nip down to your files and look it up for me, will you?

Maybe it's still not too late to nip the whole thing in the bud.

He'd perhaps have to nip into Oxford again in the evening, too.

This time I'm going to nip it in the bud.

Far better, he thought, to nip this problem in the bud.

So we have to nip it in the bud, which is why I'm here.

He tried to nip the carriage that pulled in next to him.

Tried to take a nip out of my girl, too.

Every member of the army will take one' nip at you.

That little nip of his had quickly led to other things.

Likely as not, one of them will take a nip at you for good measure!

Could it be that there is a nip in the air?

But a while in the water, the fish start coming around, taking a nip here or there.

Already the real heat had gone: there was a nip in the air at night.

There ought still to have been a nip in the air.

The sun had been up for an hour, but there was still a cold nip in the air.

He drew it out then and had himself a nip.

The hills were brown and a nip could be felt in the air.

On their way, they happened to pass this Nip restaurant.

I always keep a nip on me these cold nights,' he said.

"I gave them each a good nip while you were busy."

Night has fallen and there is a nip in the air.

A small nip on the foot, not as much of an emergency.

The pain did not stop, however, with the warning nip.

The Nip is standing framed in the women's room door.

He had a little nip himself, and seemed much happier after that.

He got the ball to swing both ways and nip.

While the day held a hint of nip, I could almost sense spring building under the brown ground.

That had caused more doubts than one little nip could.

The sun was sinking low now and the air had a bit of a nip to it.

"And yeah, a little nip would be just the thing.

She took a tiny little nip on her lower lip.