chawing

It was rather a comical sight to see us in our cabins of a cold winter night, sitting by the fire, and all solemnly "chawing" away, in profound silence, on the Johnnies 'jerked beef.

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Leander Stillwell 1888

With touching eloquence they recalled those happier evenings -- the time of smoke and vapor; when, after a whole day's delectable "chawing," they beguiled themselves with their genial, and most companionable puffs.

Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855

But with the blessed Bible full of good hay, you are 'chawing' away on the briars. "

Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures George W. Bain

Bob lurched ahead, through a line of bushes, into another back yard, the bike grinding and chawing through a garden.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

There it hit, its rotors chawing up a circle of dust from every bite.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

There it hit, its rotors chawing up a circle of dust from every bite.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

Bob lurched ahead, through a line of bushes, into another back yard, the bike grinding and chawing through a garden.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

When he goes on Russert or Larry King or Letterman, he's a curly muff of hair under a cowboy hat whose jaw is constantly chawing gum and who answers the softball question with a monotonous mumble heavily punctuated with monosyllabic "Well ... 's" and "Ya knows ... 's".

Appeasing the Geezer: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

There it hit, its rotors chawing up a circle of dust from every bite.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

Bob lurched ahead, through a line of bushes, into another back yard, the bike grinding and chawing through a garden.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009