___ toy (dog's plaything)

Usage examples of chew.

There remained however the problem of telephoning to Walt: and I chewed it over thoughtfully while absentmindedly pulling prickly pear needles out of my legs.

So Achang chewed betel over the problem for a full hour, and then, being a man of action, took his weapons and went over to Panda the blacksmith.

I was in mid-air for an agelong enough to chew and swallow a tongueand then I hit on my stomach, rocked forward on my receding chest and two of my chins, and slid.

She chewed the last of the appleberries, relishing the taste less than she had on the first morning.

I put Logan in a wheelbarrow and pushed him back up the farm lane to get more apples, frowning and chewing my tongue as I went.

Miss Sidley could always tell who was chewing gum at the back of the room, who had a beanshooter in his pocket, who wanted to go to the bathroom to trade baseball cards rather than use the facilities.

Since Bedaux was spending a quarter of a million on the expedition, this was hardly enough to pay for the chewing gum and cigarettes which Madame Bedaux handed out daily to the wranglers.

Drinking the water of the Nile, eating the crumbs of dourha bread she had brought from the hospital, getting an onion from a field, chewing shreds of sugarcane, hiding by day and trudging on by night, hourly growing weaker, she struggled towards Beni Souef.

I stopped halfway through the practice and hooked down to check feet and see if anyone needed booties, and Abe chewed through the gang line He let the front six dogs loose, and there I was with just him and the other wheel dog.

Then I began moving up the scale again: a snapdragon, a black grouse, a gecko, and a bowlegged mongrel with one eye, chewed ears, and a body bearing the scars of a thousand back-alley battles.

It proceeded to chew its way up the wood as if the oars were breadsticks, and was well on its way to having Jimmy and Danny Shaftoe for lunch, and Jack for dessert, when the Nayars up on the boat opened fire with their blunderbusses.

To one coming down Split River Pass toward the cupped, alluvial plain at its foot, the buttes seemed to spread fanwise toward the southern horizon, lines and clusters of level-topped, sheer-sided mountains, all that was left of the great mesa that had lain at the foot of the mountains in time immemorial, now chewed by the river into these obdurate leftovers.

Papa Schimmelhorn took special care to be more than ordinarily subservient to the Mother-Empress at handout time, and he prepared himself for bed by chewing a few tasty catnip leaves.

Opening her reticule, she took out a packet of cloves, removed one, then put it in her mouth to chew.

Yet there they were, together, the cow folded down and rhythmically chewing the cud while the Clydesdale dozed with one massive hind hoof propped on its tip.