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But still, something gnawed at me, something that didn't feel quite right.
So seeing it this time satisfied something that had gnawed at me.
My smugness gnawed at me for weeks after she died, then months.
Still, for decades the failure to earn a real college degree gnawed at him.
The potential of that forest as an engine of economic growth gnawed at the members.
Scattered their dream-stuff on the ground, to be pecked at, gnawed at, chewed up.
What gnawed at him was a fear that Trump might actually win over Democratic voters more lastingly.
It has gnawed at the legs of furniture and frozen a DVD player with its tray ajar.
Some argued that the invitation was a distraction from the domestic problems that have gnawed at the president.
Election-related anxiety gnawed at me for months, lighting up old networks of pain in my shoulders and back.
As Christov-Bakargiev drew on a notepad while making her points, her dog, Darcy, gnawed at my pant leg.
The way he said it, though, made me think they should, and that sense of unfulfilled duty gnawed at me.
These issues have gnawed at Mr. Cooperman, who used his five-page letter to rebut some of Ms. Warren's platform.
Concerns about a rigged election have periodically gnawed at American politics but were most pronounced after the 2000 presidential race.
"I only knew that after five years of widowhood, I had a story inside that gnawed at me," Locke wrote.
"This gnawed at us, because we sensed the wrongfulness and we knew that Jason and others were living the consequences," Kerry said.
Impatiently, he reflected that his life didn't make sense to him, a feeling that had gnawed at him for a long while.
As handler Sam Mammano walked the massive dog around the ring, Dario persistently gnawed at the man's pocket hoping to snag a snack. 
LONDON, (Reuters) - Uncertainty about the outcome of Britain's European Union referendum gnawed at consumers and businesses in April, two surveys showed on Friday.
They are kneaded, gnawed at, poked and gouged, reaching out across vast expanses even as they seem about to collapse under their own weight.
A fire in the nineteen-seventies destroyed the arch's roof and most of the interior, and decades of neglect have gnawed at the rest.
And it is those two moments that gnawed at me, again and again, as I kept waiting for a window…yet another window...my window.
I found satisfaction in a book by ­Anthony Burgess called "Ernest Hemingway and His World" (1978), which raised and answered the exact question that gnawed at me.
Illustration by Cristiana Couceiro; photographs by Alexei Nikolsky / AFP / Getty (man); Melina Mara / The Washington Post / Getty (woman); Frank Lukasseck / Getty (binoculars) One question particularly gnawed at Simpson.
They scrabbled at the clear ceiling, gnawed at the air holes drilled in the top of each box, and tried to shove pink, whiskered noses through the ports.
High food inflation had gnawed at consumers' disposable income and retailers' profits were also being hit as rivals cut prices to get rid of their old stock, Brown said.
After a bout of optimism last week over prospects that Washington and Beijing could reach an initial deal to alleviate their 18-month old dispute, doubts gnawed at markets again.
After a bout of optimism last week over prospects that Washington and Beijing could reach an initial deal to alleviate their 18-month old dispute, doubts gnawed at markets again.
But what he saw at boot camp gnawed at him until he could no longer sleep, he said, and he was too depressed to attend his next level of training.
One thing that gnawed at me on my original journey was that I was always moving, never settling in one place for long, never having a space that was actually mine.
As I tried to regain my breath at the top of the steps, unable to wrap my mind around anything aside from taking my next breath, a worry gnawed at me.
"It's very 'We've got a lot of living to do,'" she said, referring to a big number in the film, as she comically gnawed at the pink crystals lining the dress's sleeves.
Bush's life as a professional baseball player, which began at shortstop when his hometown San Diego Padres chose him first over all in the 333 draft, was an afterthought that gnawed at him.
Stocks suffered their steepest drop in eight months on Wednesday, as rising interest rates gnawed at investors and as previously high-flying technology shares tumbled in the face of growing tensions with China.
Sibanye-Stillwater said last month it could cut nearly 6,000 jobs at its gold mining operations in a potential restructuring plan as above-inflation cost increases to labour and electricity gnawed at its margins.
Some beaches along the New Jersey shore are actually shrinking, gnawed at year after year by waves and hurricane swells with many still awaiting major restoration work from the federal Army Corps of Engineers.
Investors fled riskier assets as the latest face-off gnawed at any hopes for a resolution to the long-running U.S.-China trade war, which has rattled markets for months and weighed on world economies.
She managed to pull into a nearby garage, where the mechanic quickly diagnosed the issue, pointing out the spot where the cable had been gnawed at and the telltale fur from the rat responsible for it.
Months of disagreement between Ms. Merkel and the Christian Democrats' sister party in Bavaria over the management of hundreds of thousands of refugees has gnawed at the unity that her bloc will need to win in September.
But since the last elections, Mr. Khan has been at the forefront of political opposition to Mr. Sharif, portraying him as the face of the status quo and corrupt practices that have gnawed at the political system.
The unfulfilled dream of a cozy retirement home gnawed at Mr. Mussengere in recent years — so much so that he had instructed his children to keep fighting for a new house in the event of his death.
His twitchy debut LP Piteous Gate came out in 2015 around the peak of a mainstream fascination with a group of producers who gnawed at the conventions of club music and presented something a little stickier and malformed.
People were eager to return home to pick up medications and family photos, to see if they could move back in, and mostly to answer the question that had gnawed at them for days: How bad is it?
These questions gnawed at Lissa Yellow Bird and, as the journalist Sierra Crane Murdoch recounts in her remarkable first book, "Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country," eventually came to consume her.
That's partly because Nance corralled a group of contributors that each value pushing past their own comfort zones in their work and they used the show as an opportunity to address issues that have gnawed at them for years.
But it gnawed at me through the long holiday weekend — the letter had too many names, dates, and details to be mere rumor — and on Monday, I began looking into the charges with the paper's legal affairs correspondent, Abdon Pallasch.
I didn't include it in my best theater last year, but its absence gnawed at me — now that the show is running in a production at Lincoln Center, with the cast largely intact, I have an opportunity to remedy that.
"His desire for going back to public service always kind of gnawed at him," said Mr. Vega, who helped organize the Washington fund-raiser at the home of his cousin, Jose H. Villareal, a prominent lawyer and Democratic fund-raiser.
I remember being terrified, a fear I couldn't exactly name, but which gnawed at my innards as I watched Tracy Freeland (Wood) morph from a prepubescent innocent into a sexualized harridan who hides her tongue and belly button piercings from her mother.
"When they began to go after people he knew personally, who had worked for him for years, I think it gnawed at him, and I think he felt helpless," said Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker and a confidant of Mr. Trump's.
While Jon was definitely hiding things from his friends in present day — including the affair his wife, Delilah (Stéphanie Szostak), was having with his best friend, Eddie (David Giuntoli), — it was his guilt over a past incident that gnawed at him for years.
Mr. Sessions's recusal has gnawed at the president, who has said he would have chosen a different attorney general had he known Mr. Sessions would step away from the inquiry — something Mr. Sessions did in keeping with the guidance of the Justice Department's ethics lawyers.
At the same time, Mr. Yang's cavalier use of racial stereotypes about Asian-Americans and what his former employees say is a surprising lack of attention to his record as a chief executive have also gnawed at those who say they watched their boss similarly fumble delicate topics and conversations for years.
Olga gnawed at the ropes tying her hands, and on the third night finally freed herself. The following night Russian troops liberated the area and Olga was saved.
59 After that, the mosque slowly deteriorated and became a ruins gnawed at by the wind, weather, and earthquakes. The inner arch of the portal construction finally collapsed in an earthquake in 1897.Зохидов, Пўлат: Темур даврининг меъморий кахкашони. Тошкент: Шарқ 1966. [Zakhidov, Pulat: Architectural glories of Temur’s era.
Nine days later, Anderson one-upped himself, throwing for a Beaver record-tying five touchdowns and running for another, in a 47–17 Oregon State victory over UNLV. The next weekend, Fresno State came to Corvallis. Dennis Erickson said that he had counted all 382 days since the Bulldogs beat the Beavers in 2001 and that the 2001 loss gnawed at him. Oregon State fans sold out Reser Stadium in anticipation.
The squadron sails to Freetown to begin the first mission, practising gunnery and other naval skills en route. Aubrey is in a bad mood, felt throughout the ships, until Maturin tells him that Pastor Hinksey is to be married and set up in India; jealousy had gnawed at him. Aubrey devises a scheme using the smaller vessels in the squadron to surprise each slave port up to the Bight of Benin. This successfully disrupts the slave trade, and saves over 6,000 slaves.
Bad weather, winds and storms gnawed at its outward side, letting visible quartzite stones of several colours. Not far from this place stand cracked rocks, made of huge units and a bit farther can be seen the beginning of the pagan wall. According to tradition this place was dedicated to hunting, and the Lords of Ribeaupierre shut away and fed there stags and does. However this place was not intended for such a use, for the reason that its wall isn't closed and could never have been built for that use.
One of its three roots stretched over the underworld Niflheim where the dragon Nidhogg gnawed at it in an attempt to destroy creation – hence its name 'The Dread Biter'. This legend was later used by fantasy writer Terry Pratchett. Midgard's Worm or Jorungard's Worm lay in the sea with its tail in its mouth, encircling the lands of the world and creating the oceans. If the Worm's tail was ever removed from its mouth disaster would befall the earth and in legend Midgard's Worm met its end at Ragnarök when it dies fighting, and killing, the thunder god Thor.
Buckley died in debt, owning only a guitar and an amplifier. About 200 friends and family attended his funeral at the Wilshire Funeral Home in Santa Monica, including manager Herb Cohen and Lee Underwood. His 8-year-old son, Jeff, had met his father only once, and was not invited to the funeral. Jeff Buckley said not being invited to his father's funeral "gnawed" at him, and prompted him to pay his respects by performing "I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain" in 1991 at a memorial tribute to Buckley in Brooklyn, six years before his own accidental death.
"Selvon, The Lonely Londoners, p. 113. Helon Habila has noted: "One imagines immediately the loneliness that must have gnawed at these immigrants whose memory of their sunny, convivial island communities was their only refuge at such moments. But although this is a book about exile and alienation, it is not a sad book. Even when his characters are under-going the direst of tribulations, Selvon has a way of capturing the humour in the situation.... The message of The Lonely Londoners is even more vital today than in 50s Britain: that, although we live in societies increasingly divided along racial, ideological and religious lines, we must remember what we still have in common - our humanity.
It is said that getting flown over by a mikoshi-nyūdō results in death or getting strangled by the throat, and if one falls back due to looking up at the nyūdō, one's windpipe would get gnawed at and killed. On Iki Island off Kyushu, a mikoshi- nyūdō would make a "wara wara" sound like the swaying of bamboo, so by immediately chanting, "," the nyūdō would be made to disappear, but it is said that if one simply goes past them without saying anything, bamboo would fall resulting in death. In the Oda District, Okayama Prefecture, it is said that when one meets a mikoshi-nyūdō, it is vital to lower one's vision to the bottom of one's feet, and if one instead looks up to the head from the feet, one would be eaten and killed. Other than chanting "mikoshita (seen past)" or "minuita (seen through)," there are also examples where they would disappear by mustering one's courage and smoking tobacco (Kanagawa Prefecture), or by calculating the height of the mikoshi-nyūdō by a margin (Shizuoka Prefecture), among other methods.

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