"Bite out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... literature, he cannot speak or read French with any comfort; he has an imperfect knowledge of the English language, insufficient to write it clearly, and none of German, he has a queer, old-fashioned, and quite useless knowledge of certain rudimentary sections of mathematics, and an odd little bite out of history. He knows practically nothing of the world of thought embodied in English literature, and absolutely nothing of contemporary thought; he is totally ignorant of modern political or social science, and if he knows anything ...
— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells
... and when I saw them open their horrid jaws, armed with three rows of glistening white sharp teeth, I could well understand how easily they could bite off the leg of a man, as they often do when they get the chance. Sometimes they would come right up on the whale's body with a wave, bite out great pieces of the flesh, turn over on their bellies, and ...
— Fighting the Whales • R. M. Ballantyne
... is going to take a bite out of me some day," he muttered under his breath. "Fat chance I'd have to kiss her with that ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon
... middle of the room, not daring to move for fear of stepping on the uncanny bird. She remembered that once when she was a very little girl she had confidingly held out her finger to a parrot and that the unfriendly creature had immediately taken a bite out of it. She wished that the light would come; it made her nervous to be in a dark room with ...
— Glenloch Girls • Grace M. Remick
... who has to take a bite out of such a tough case as you," Teddy frankly told him; and somehow Jimmy seemed to consider that he had been given a bouquet, for he bowed and smiled ...
— Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay - The Disappearing Fleet • G. Harvey Ralphson |
