Word: bitingly
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...William Gibbs McAdooing. Ever since he magnanimously withdrew his own name, for the alleged sake of party harmony, it has rankled with Mr. McAdoo that Candidate Smith did not do likewise. Mr. McAdoo is so Dry that he has sworn he would do almost anything to make Candidate Smith bite the dust: "I don't care what happens to me but-." What better agent for this purpose could Mr. McAdoo have found than a Dry and a Catholic whose prestige began to surpass his own as long ago as the 1924 convention? At that convention, Senator Walsh waved aside...
...Harvard man demurred. "A section man's answers should, I believe, have a certain pungency or alliteration or something that will pique the attention. Something like 'Too tenuous' or 'You do not catch the bite of the question'. That's the way one writes magazine articles...
...when English machine guns shot holes in a fiery burst for Irish freedom. Some of the characters are patriots; some of them are drunken philosophers; one is a chubby prostitute in scarlet silk. The story tells the stark sorrow of a young bride whose patriot husband dies from the bite of English bullets. She loses her baby; loses her mind...
...pressure. In the first case the symptoms would be a "jumping" ache aggravated by drawing in cool air. The cure would be to hold warm water in the mouth to reduce inflammation. The symptoms in the second case (that of a dead nerve) are a sore tooth, sore to bite on, and a steady grumbling pain, not severe. In this case try cold water to contract the gas evolved by putrefaction...
...Well, it was so doggone hot up there right under the light that the bed-bugs crawled out of the old seat upholstery and she was scared stiff when they started to bite...