nipping

Heading into the fourth day of competition, upstart Wall Street Journal was nipping at the heels of the Gray Lady.

So they held the prisoner fast, and led him to the brooklet, nipping his throat tightly to choke an outcry.

Streaks of gray haze rose a foot or two into the nipping air, and the clash of shovels had a new, harsh ring.

Mayo braved nipping wind and iced rigging and took the glass to the main crosstrees.

We'd find their tracks and places where they'd been nipping off the ends of branches and twigs, and follow them up.

And while he slept, a nipping wind from the far, northern Highlands swooped down on the mist and sent it flying out to sea.