Potential Titles: Gnaw

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With my liver gnawed by mice - Daisy Aldan "The Little Mermaid"

Whose sharp incisors have gnawed many a keel - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Memories gnawed at the back of his grieving brain - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

Whom one great desire gnaws - Charles Baudelaire "The Swan" transl. not credited

Revenge the gory fragment gnaws - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

Moles have gnawed the rose tree at its root - Arna Bontemps "Lancelot"

Prisoned in gnawing restraint - Karin Boye "A Dedication" transl. by Nadia Christensen

The mouse that gnaws an apple tree's roots - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"

And gnaw the frozen turnip - John Clare "Sheep in Winter"

A chain saw gnawing the bruised air - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"

my curving fangs gnaw on dreams - Jim Heston "In the Time of Lycanthropy"

Gnaw not yet thine intricate cocoon - Richard Hughes "Felo de Se"

Wind the hot gnaw of hunger into a tight spool - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"

Gnawed by a hundred minor obligations - Edgar Kunz "Therapy"

Gnawed by new decay - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory of the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"

The mouse that gnawed the floor - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"

Gnawing the green roots from a blinded moon - Michael McGriff "Inversion"

Gnawing at the endings of your nerves - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Nidhigg"

Ravenously gnawing at their shadows - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The camp -- is it possible?"

Gnawed a fibre from strange roots - Isaac Rosenberg "God"

Teeth of brass that gnaw - Frederick George Scott "Samson"

Gnawing the black crust of failure - Robert W. Service "The Law of the Yukon"

Deep gnawed by rust and stain - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]

Whose stings and gnawing shall never cease - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist

That I gnaw the bones of the town - Helen Hay Whitney "The Wanderer"


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