"Nip" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... say 'Round me nip,'" he shouted, "I want to see a cloud of dust and a livin' statue. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 31, 1920 • Various
... Fowleweather, my Lady the Countes Eugenia commends her most kindly to you, and is determined to morrowe morning earely, if it be a frost, to take her Coach to Barnet to bee nipt; where if it please you, to meete her, and accompany her homewarde, joyning your wit with the frost, and helpe to nip her, She does not doubt but tho you had a sad supper, you ...
— A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III • Various
... put a summary end to the colony; Morton was sent back to England, and the "revelries" which he had countenanced or promoted were seen no more in Massachusetts. The era for gayeties had not yet come in the new world. Endicott would not be satisfied with crushing out evil; he would also nip in the bud all such lightsome and frivolous conduct as might lead those who indulged in it to forget the dangers and difficulties attending the planting of the reformed ...
— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne
... a dear, sweet girl, and I am going to nip this nonsense in the bud," Miss Reynolds observed to herself on the way upstairs, where, in the main hall and parlors, the students usually spent an hour, socially, after the evening meal. But as she presented her charge, here and there, she only became more indignant in view of frigid ...
— Katherine's Sheaves • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... As he rocked, Whittier noticed that his trousers were reaching the point of danger, and now at length he had something that interested him. Charlie was sidling up unseen by the orator. There was a little nip followed by a sharp exclamation, and the thread of the discourse was broken! The relieved poet now had the floor as an apologist for ...
— Whittier-land - A Handbook of North Essex • Samuel T. Pickard
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