...But the trip, which allows one merely to nibble at theCoast, is worth taking again when the bubonic plague has passedaway... 
Richard Harding Davis 「The Congo and Coasts of Africa」
...In the morning the dog was prevailed upon to lap a saucer of warm milk,and even to nibble at a crust of soaked bread...
Albert Payson Terhune 「His Dog」
..." It was, "indeed" the song of a hungry bird who had foundgood rich suet to nibble...
Edith M. Patch 「Bird Stories」
... even as the Bird-lice nibble thebirds' feathers?...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...It was the regular custom to crack a few nuts and nibble at a crust while writing our page or setting out our rows of figures...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...Three of them, at one time together, at another separately, come and nibble at the edges of the cell; they break off particles which they reduce to paste for a new piece of work...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...After the fly, anatomists come hastening, who take up the dry relic, nibble skin, tendons and ligaments and scrape the bones clean...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...Thus we see no lack of ability, but an obstinate refusal to nibble at a point which ought to be respected...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...It seems to nibble at it as it draws it through its mouth...
Margaret Warner Morley 「The Insect Folk」
...They come and go tumultuously, run and hop around thecircular track and, without stopping, nibble at the good things on theway...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...Slowly and methodically, from top to base,the new-born grubs nibble the wallets whence they have just emerged...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...At dusk the rabbits used to comedown from the woods, and on to the sandy salinetracts to nibble the short sea grass...
Anonymous 「The Confessions of a Poacher」
...So after that, Baldo and Chando were allowed to walk about the villageas they pleased, and nibble at anybody's hay or grass, and splash inanybody's pond, and wallow in anybody's ditch, rut, or mire...
Prince Sarath Ghosh 「The Wonders of the Jungle」
...The boy let go the ass, who gaveone fling at the horse, and then went very quietly to nibble the grass,lying in patches on the rough ground...
R. Lee 「Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals」
...Which meant that Bunny would nibble the cordfor the salt that was in it, and bring the log downhard on his own back...
William J. Long 「Ways of Wood Folk」
...In the gloaming,she followed her mother through the “creeps”amid the furze-brake, and sometimes to theedge of the thicket as far as the gap, whereshe learned to nibble the tastiest leaves inthe grass...
Alfred W. Rees 「Creatures of the Night」
...When herwildly throbbing heart had been quieted byrest and solitude, she stole from her hidingplace to nibble the clover at the side of thepath...
Alfred W. Rees 「Creatures of the Night」
...At every gleam of silver inthe depths below they would stop short and cry out: Pip! “there heis!” Pip, pip! “here goes!” like a boy with his first nibble...
William J. Long 「Wood Folk at School」
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