Word: bitingly
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...before an altar of stone the heap of the day's unopened and unanswered letters. To write to me is useless, to come to my door equally useless. I answer nobody; I receive nobody. Neither prayer nor insolences can break my monastic enclosure. My dogs are wise and bite well. Have I made myself clear...
Wise dogs that bite well...
...manuscripts which I have in my keeping, music written by men now living who will rank as high a century from now as Mozart or Beethoven!" No enemy to Jazz is Koussevitzky. It is stated of him that in London one night, stopping at a supper-club for a bite, he heard some young Americans rendering their native melodies. He listened; his bite grew cold. "I like good music," said...
...bridled under these "impudent" attacks by the Labor Ministry. "If the citizens of the United States have such methods as will enable them to get the stuff in whenever they can with impunity," he declared, "it has nothing to do with me. What I am doing is a flea bite. Why should I be referred to as a 'disgraceful blot' for trying to meet this demand by a straight trading proposition...
...with the present holder of the title, Johnny Dundee, who introduced him to astronomy in the ninth round of a fight which took place in 1922. The vanquished said, when interviewed at "his modest Montmartre mansion": "I am through. . . . No more fighting for me. . . . Gene Criqui can't bite any more sawdust in front of anyone else. Ex-champions should not try to come back. . . . Frush is a good man, but there have been many days in my life when I could have beaten him quickly. . . . I wish Frush luck. . . . Let's have a little supper"-and Criqui...