例文・使い方で印象づける「nibble」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...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」
..."None—but I've had a nibble several times...
Lenore Elizabeth Mulets 「Stories of Birds」
..." It was, "indeed" the song of a hungry bird who had foundgood rich suet to nibble...
Edith M. Patch 「Bird Stories」
...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」
...The Philanthus will nibble at the throat and squeeze the sides in vain: the honey will not rise to the mouth so long as a vestige of life keeps the crop closed...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
... Long and curved, they nibble at the paralysed victim's neck, sometimes from above, sometimes from below...
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」
...Before recognizing their mistake, they have to hold the object betweentheir legs and even to nibble at it a little...
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」
...Here is the print of the hare'sfurry foot where he came to nibble thetwigs of poplar and birch that yesterdaywere switching the clouds, but havefallen, manna-like, from skyward to feedhim...
Rowland E. Robinson 「In New England Fields and Woods」
...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」
...When you camp in the wilderness atnight, the rabbit will come out of his form in theferns to pull at your shoe, or nibble a hole in the saltbag, while you sleep...
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」
...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」
...He sits on the floor of the car with his back to them, eating or resting, while they nibble the branches of a tree close by...
L.W. King and H.R. Hall 「History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery」
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