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Gnawing anxiety as to the future is one of the most soul-destroying things man can suffer from.
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The black economy also gnaws away at the public purse.
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What gnaws away at people's lives, however, is the incessant, everyday crime and what they consider to be crime.
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They have gnawed away the concessions given to pensioners.
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One can see marks on the furniture where the rats have gnawed.
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Nothing gnaws away at a business man's sense of well-being than cashflow problems.
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The burden becomes too heavy for them, and too many old people are left to loneliness which creeps on them and gnaws at the little strength which they have left.
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Their case is founded on false assumptions and their arguments are riddled with muddle and confusion—rather like a lump of old timber gnawed away by woodworm and covered with fungus.
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Fax machines, e-mail, electronic payments and direct debits have all provided competition that has gnawed away at some of the basic business of mail and parcel delivery.
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Jury nobbling gnaws at the marrow of justice.
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Inequality gnaws at the moral fabric of society.
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What causes young men or women to throw away their lives by taking drugs so that their minds and bodies are gnawed by these dreadful substances?
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Among those fish were kelts and there were snigger marks on many of them, and some even had marks of having been gnawed by rats and pecked by gulls.
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They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be keep short by gnawing.
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They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be kept short by gnawing.
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In legend the breach was caused by large rats gnawing at it with their teeth and scratching it with their nails.
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Moreover, rather than gnawing incisors, this animal has bicuspid upper incisors, which is also unique among the more than 2,200 species of rodents.
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All industrialized countries must contend with inflation, which continuously gnaws away at the family budget, and the only remedy is the continuing increase of salaries.
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Both their medial and lateral masseter muscles are displaced forward, making them adept at gnawing.
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They live among spun leaves and mine the leaves from this position by gnawing irregular, more or less oval holes in the epidermis.
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In others, the larvae feed alongside adults by gnawing out shallow depressions on the fruiting bodies of fungi.
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The demon gnaws on a maple branch as she dies.
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The teeth have enamel on the outside and exposed dentin on the inside, so they self-sharpen during gnawing.
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Unlike humans whose ameloblasts die after tooth development, rodents continually produce enamel and must wear down their teeth by gnawing on various materials.
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She is then mysteriously revived by a group of alley cats that flock around her and begin gnawing at her fingers.
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Hearing it roaring, the mouse remembers its clemency and frees it by gnawing through the ropes.
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Their incisor teeth somewhat resemble those of the placental rodents (rats, mice, etc.), being adapted for gnawing tough vegetation.
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The tension was unbearable; contemporary accounts famously report that one spectator dropped dead and another gnawed through the handle of his umbrella.
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She escaped from captivity by gnawing through her own thumb to get out of the handcuffs.
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Since that time the surf gnawed steadily toward the base of the tower until 1935, when the site was finally reached by the surf.
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The favorite food of marmosets is carbohydrate-rich tree sap, which they reach by gnawing holes in trunks.
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Burning or gnawing feeling in the stomach area lasting between 30 minutes and 3 hours commonly accompanies ulcers.
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The observation of gnawed seedlings can assume leaf consumption by herbivores.
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Many published versions of the game say this is done by the rat crawling in the elephant's ear and gnawing at his brains.
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Gnawing the intestines usually resulted in a few hours of agonizing pain for the victim.
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The inner edge of the disk was gnawed into incandescent ferocity by the compressive clawing of the holes great tidal gradients.
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Rodent incisors grow and wear away continually through gnawing, which helps maintain relatively constant length.
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They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continuously and must be kept short by gnawing.
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When other nutrient sources are not available, these camels may feed on carcasses, gnawing on bones, skin, or various different kinds of flesh.
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My vision was still bad and this terrible headache was gnawing away right at the base of my skull.
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Numerous cases have also been reported of snafflehounds gnawing holes in sleeping bags while climbers slept inside them.
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The bee creates cavity nests by gnawing the wood in the trunks of dead trees and in old wooden structures.
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The lower jaw is thrust forward while gnawing and is pulled backwards during chewing.
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They can be regarded as a pest in this situation due to the fire risk from gnawed electrical cables and fouling from their faeces.
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Gnawing at other, and being gnawed, she was herself her own torment.
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The rabbit is a gnawing animal that is distinguished from rodents by its two pairs specialized of upper incisors that are designed for gnawing.
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Ruayei gnawed on the base until the tree fell.
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Hundreds of rats from a nearby drain crawl over him, gnawing his flesh.
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The hatched larva gnaws into the seed, which closes the minute hole during its growth.
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In fact, he might have been gnawed by a sense of guilt.
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Rodents are capable of gnawing though even the toughest husks, pods and seed shells.
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Rattata has large incisors and a long whisker on both sides that may be worn down by gnawing.
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However, upper central abdominal pain is the most common symptom; the pain may be dull, vague, burning, aching, gnawing, sore, or sharp.
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Our apparatus can not be gnawed at, but this is an aspect of things turned wrong.
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Later in the story, he gnaws through the lion's bonds after he has been captured by hunters.
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He claimed it died gnawing on a fallen tree branch, still trying to reach him.
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If rodents are prevented from gnawing, their teeth eventually puncture the roofs of their mouths.
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He begs a bone for his dog, which he gnaws on secretly in an alley.
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Their characteristic gnawing trait also aids in maintaining sharp teeth, and because their teeth grow continuously, prevents their over-growth.
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Rather than let himself be caught and skinned, he gnawed his foreleg off and escaped.
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After getting his ears gnawed off by a robot mouse, he slipped into depression on top of a tower, where he drank a potion labeled sadness.
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Small holes are plugged with coarse grade steel wool, which, if gnawed on by rodents, causes extreme pain in the mouth and, if ingested, severe internal damage leading to death.
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Pygmy marmosets, the smallest monkeys in the world, are captured feeding at the tops of trees and gnawing away on tree trunks to feast on the gum inside.
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She is, however, apparently regretful of what she has done to her brother, though this, coupled with their unhealthy relationship, is gnawing more and more at her already unbalanced psyche.
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The cause of the fire was not definitely established, but it is believed to have been either rats or mice gnawing in the heating ducts, or a spontaneous combustion.
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Later finishing moves expand upon the concept, ranging from regurgitating acid upon the opponent to leaping upon their body and gnawing the flesh from their skulls.
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They are either herbivores or omnivores, eating a wide range of foods in different species, with the aid of powerful jaw muscles and gnawing incisors that grow throughout life.
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She is gnawed by her sadness.
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She gnaws on things frequently.
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The other bones showed evidence of having been gnawed by small animals, and many were further damaged by workmen in their efforts to extricate them from the clay.
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Once the site is selected, the pair will prepare it by lining it with wood debris made from the hollow itself by gnawing and shredding it with their beaks.
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Nonetheless, while ameloblasts die in humans and most other animalsmaking further enamel formation impossiblerodents continually produce enamel, forcing them to wear down their teeth by gnawing on various materials.
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They have fountain pens, which they cannot gnaw.
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We should not merely give them crumbs from the table to gnaw at because we can think of nothing better to do.
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Children have a proclivity to chew a variety of objects and can gnaw their way through more recent coatings of paint to highly-leaded paint underneath.
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Great trouble is experienced with the rats which frequently gnaw through the cables.
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The disease-mongers gnaw away at our self-confidence by playing down the strategies of self-coping.
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They seem to feel that they will be deprived of a bone to gnaw on.
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When it gives up that fight against an inanimate object, it starts to pull and gnaw off its limb that is caught in the trap to try to break free.
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Older trees are not altogether safe; the rabbits at certain times gnaw the bark at the base, which exposes the tree to disease and causes defects in the timber.
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He will have to sit there and gnaw his nails once again, and ask his legal and technical advisers whether the use of his powers is also urgently necessary.
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The roof tended to leak, and rats would often gnaw at the cables.
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The commonly plastic structure of hamster and mouse cages is inappropriate for gerbils due to their ability to gnaw through it very quickly.
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As the larvae gnaw on the wood, the holes grow wider and deeper.
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Mammals did not dig up buried seeds, but gnawed the germinating seedlings as soon as the white stems emerge.
The majority of fruits that are gnawed open by agoutis are 1-2 y old.
Indeed, the desire to do so is "gnawing" away at him.
To determine whether the effort required to access the endocarp content differs between infested and sound endocarps, we measured the size of holes gnawed to extract the endocarp content.
Holes were in the middle of the endocarp: agoutis hold the endocarps horizontally and gnaw at them with the lower jaw.
Both rodent species must gnaw through a fixed endocarp thickness to reach the contents.
Interesting literature, in short, makes for poor history ; an awkward bone for the profession to gnaw.
He constantly wishes for more than he possesses, and this insatiable hunger eventually begins to gnaw at his own livelihood.
The black economy gnaws away at the honest living of more than 1 million people.
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The black economy gnaws away at a decent society.
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To achieve that perfection we should need flex which could not be bitten through by a dog or gnawed at by a cat.
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I am sure all of us have gnawed such bones.
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The great mass of disagreement cannot be removed by a single effort; it can be eaten into and gnawed away only by patience and perseverance.
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He was attached to a rock and gnawed at by a vulture for 30,000 years.
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The disease which gnaws at the foundation of my constituency is not easily understood by contemporary observers of urban decay.
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