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If you live in a climate where winters tend to be long and cold, then come October, winter is already on your mind because the shorter days and nippier nighttime temperatures are cluing you in to its approach.

Lighten Up Peter Walsh 2011

If you live in a climate where winters tend to be long and cold, then come October, winter is already on your mind because the shorter days and nippier nighttime temperatures are cluing you in to its approach.

Lighten Up Peter Walsh 2011

I spent a few hours using the improved browser and it does seems somewhat nippier than before.

Download Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2) - Digital Inspiration 2004

'Bit slower with their muskets and a bit nippier on their feet, but that's all.

Sharpe's Regiment Cornwell, Bernard 1986

But, often though they changed their headquarters, the “ghosts” were nippier still.

When Last I Died Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1941

After that the days drifted quietly for a month and grew nippier at each end and lazier in the middle; which meant that the short summer was over, and that fall was getting ready to paint the wooded slopes with her gayest colors, and that one must prepare for the siege of winter.

The Ranch at the Wolverine 1914

Do you think you can be a bit nippier in getting over the centreboard than you were last time.

Priscilla's Spies George A. Birmingham 1907

After that the days drifted quietly for a month and grew nippier at each end and lazier in the middle; which meant that the short summer was over, and that fall was getting ready to paint the wooded slopes with her gayest colors, and that one must prepare for the siege of winter.

The Ranch at the Wolverine B. M. Bower 1905

I jumped on to it -- had to -- then jumped off it nippier still and, turning to the right, began to walk towards Birdie's dugout.

Gallipoli Diary, Volume I Ian Hamilton 1900

It was a frosty morning, and ye waylaid the maister on his way to the school, and the tawse were nippier than ordinar 'that mornin'.

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887