Gnawing

A cat was tearing at the door, and there was a sound of gnawing rats beneath the hearth-stone.

Layla's curiosity was gnawing at her.

But Daphnis was unable to tune his soul to joy since he had seen Chloe bathing. He felt a gnawing pain at his heart as if some venom were secretly at work there.

I was suddenly aroused by a slight noise. It was like the sound which a mouse makes when it is gnawing a plank.

Other times, they felt like something was gnawing or chewing on their feet.

Engleitner found the constant gnawing hunger harder and harder to bear. When the rations eventually increased again and the prisoners were given stew, it did not make much difference to Engleitner.

the gnawings of mice

The spirit of slavery raves under tormenting gnawings, and casts about in blind phrenzy for something to ease, or even to mock them.

"If I made them suffer the pains of exile, I would not let them endure also the gnawings of starvation.

But from the time we returned from our first journey, after having spent some months in trying, as some one put it, to "discover America," I felt the gnawings of excited appetite.