nipt

    So clear'd softly between and tooth-nipt even it ever

Poems and Fragments 2006

Blanche struck hers only to the saddest of tunes; and sang elegies over her dead hopes, dirges over her early frost-nipt buds of affection, as became such a melancholy fate and Muse.

The History of Pendennis 2006

    So clear'd softly between and tooth-nipt even it ever

Poems and Fragments 2006

Yet if a slender nail hath nipt his bloom to deflour it,

Poems and Fragments 2006

What though the sensibility be at first faint and reluctant, like the appearance of an early spring-flower in frosty winter, which seems afraid of being nipt by an easterly blast!

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Yet if a slender nail hath nipt his bloom to deflour it,

Poems and Fragments 2006

I wish you would permit me, a young creature, just turned of nineteen years of age, blooming and healthy as I was a few months ago, now nipt by the cold hand of death, to influence you, in these my last hours, to a life of regularity and repentance for any past evils you may have been guilty of.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

The nurse, well skilled in the mysteries of her occupation, persuades the patient, that her malady, far from being slight or chimerical, may proceed to a very dangerous degree of the hysterical affection, unless it be nipt in the bud by some very effectual remedy.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

And straitly nipt the hand, and flung it from her;

Idylls of the King 2004

If his heart had slept but a few years longer, he might have been saved; but it awoke in its infancy; it had power, but no knowledge; and it was ruined, even as a too early-blowing bud is nipt by the killing frost.

The Last Man 2003