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• They sing, “All Days Will Be Sunday By and By,” or “Sweet Rest in Heaven.” If they are oppressed by debt and mortgages that gnaw, they sing, “Jesus paid it all, yes, all the debt I owe.” A warlike people whose wealth has come from conquest will shout the English National Hymn and take joy in such lines as “Confound their knavish tricks,” expressed as a prayer. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers, V9
• There was not the faintest sound of gnaw, or scratch, or squeak. —  AHMM,November2007
• This Friday's word is radical, and it comes to us through the late Latin rādīcālis meaning having roots and the Old English wrotan meaning to root, gnaw or dig up, both originating in the early Indo-European wrad meaning branch or root. —  Beyond the Fields We Know
• I huddled in my bed with Stella under the covers, allowing her to viciously gnaw (as vicious as a 7 week old puppy can) on my fingers to keep her from making a peep. —  CapeCodToday Blog Chowder
• VI, gnaw, 85 nāhe} ({nāch}), av. —  A Middle High German Primer Third Edition

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