biting

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He’s on a pole, and the bitin North wind is a blowin onto him.

From "Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866. by Nast, Thomas

I've had hardly an hour's sleep since the first breeze, and, when I du get over, I fare to feel as if cats and dogs and fish and things was bitin'.'

From A Dream of the North Sea by Runciman, James

Our regiment wuz called upon to go into the front line trenches and while I was peepin over the top, one of them pesky "seam squirrels" commenced bitin the back of my neck.

From Love Letters of a Rookie to Julie by Stone, Barney

De raccoon an' de 'possum Under de hill a-fightin'; Rabbit almos' bust his sides Laughin' at de bitin'.

From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Talley, Thomas Washington

And—, 'Was the bitin o' the beasts terrible sair?' interrupted Steenie.

From Heather and Snow by MacDonald, George