Then a rest followed, with the usual sneezing and bit- champing.

His jaws had gone back to their rhythmic champing and he said, "Imagine, sir.

From the byre I could hear the moving and slow champing of the cows, but the evening milking was over.

The champing and stamping of a horse hard by showed me that Covenant was a prisoner as well as his master.

A pawing, and a champing, and a general hubbub, which those two ruffians could not fail to hear.

The thing had been eating; the regular sound had been that of the mechanical champing of its jaws.

Utter silence had fallen upon the stands, so that the champing of Malud's horse upon its bit was plainly audible.

The man with the broken nose removed his cigar, examined it, replaced it and resumed his methodical champing.

At length, after some preliminary champing of his lips during which the Collector caught a glimpse of a white-coated tongue, Hari spoke.

Then he heard the squelch of hoofs in the mud, more grunts, the sound of hog-like rooting and the champing of tusked jaws.

He remembered the champing of horses, the ringing of the bridle loops like the tinkling of the zils of the tambourine.

Close behind him he could hear the murmur of the bowmen, the occasional bursts of hoarse laughter, and the champing and stamping of their horses.

The champing and pawing of the horses mingled with the cheerful tones of the Britons and seemed unbearably loud after the long period of enforced silence.

Niall observed that there was very little conversation in the rest of the room - only the sound of spoons on wooden platters, and the champing of jaws.

The air was cool now, and the soft music mingled in the air with the scent of woodsmoke and the low champing of the horses or the mumbling of the oxen.

He ate and drank with much champing of jaws and without offering her any, which (even though she had refused to move and had indicated she had no needs) was hardly gentlemanly.

The guards were silent: the champing of the horses and the squelching sound of his boots in the mud could be heard clearly as he moved like an old man among his people towards the litter.

But in a day's worth of channel surfing, there was the impression of a champing at the bit across the airwaves, an electronic urge to give viewers a real-time assessment of an election day-in-progress.

There was little sound: only the sucking noises that made Hood's every course seem like soup, the slow champing of Nabby's dry mouth, the whirr of the fan, the hoicking of the Chinese boy in the kitchen.

And so the occasional sneezing of the resting mules, and the champing of the bits, grate harshly on the grim stillness, not dissipating the spell but accenting it and making one feel more lonesome and forsaken than before.

Hellenized by centuries of exposure to the Greeks, the Numidian upper classes wore Greek dress, which did not really suit Jugurtha, who looked his best in helmet and cuirass and greaves, sword at his side, war-horse champing.

Citizen Marat was here.... He, too--" In a moment the officer had once more swung his horse round, so that the animal reared, with wild forefeet pawing the air, with champing of bit, and white foam scattered around.

Had Stoutenburg been less blind and deaf to aught save to his own hatred and his own fury, he would have heard not many paces away, the sound of horses' hoofs upon the hard ground, the champing of bits, the jingle of harness.

The horses' hoofs hardly made a noise on the soft carpet of pine-needles and of dead fallen leaves, but the champing of the bits was of course audible, and now and then the snorting of some poor, tired horse longing for its stable.

A copy of the little pamphlet lay on his desk--eight small grey pages, printed by a fount of type that had grown blunt, like an old dog's teeth, by the endless champing and champing of the press.

Now they are champing at the bit to start again.

Several stand out, and one or two may even have you champing at the bit.

They're probably champing at the bit to rush the building.

Not everyone is champing at the bit for a history of titles.

Les had just called, champing at the bit to trade back.

"You must be champing at the bit to get into harness!"

The guys are champing at the bit to get a game."

After four months, I was champing at the bit to get back."

But she wanted people champing at the bit to see her wares.

"He's been champing at the bit for more playing time.

Some quality sides champing at the bit in the Championship.

The electorate will be champing at the bit no doubt.

"The guys who I've brought into the business are champing at the bit to run it.

Most seem to have lived on the sea floor, champing their way through mud.

"That poor child Prudence did seem to be champing at the bit."

Now the timber interests are champing at the bit to see who gets the last tree.

Now I was champing at the bit of opportunity.

Lured by the scent of money, other game companies were champing at the bit.

His team drew up hard, champing and foaming at the bit.

"Spring broke late this year, and gardeners were just champing at the bit."

Within three months Eva was champing at the bit.

"I know you're champing at the bit to go fire that monster.

Fairly champing at the bit to have a go at her.

Or I could sell the rights in America - they're just champing for it.

The small fleet she captained was champing at the bit to get going.

As for the champ, nothing is certain about his future.

Nothing to do with Champ, just happened at the same time.

He had never called anyone "champ" in his whole life before now.

The champ wants you to be nice to him, baby.

That way maybe I can be champ before you get there.

Yesterday, the new champ was talking to his son on the phone.

They were high school kids, city champs for the first time.

I feel like I've been broken down by the world champ.

"Something you got to understand about the champ," he said.

By Thursday night, the former 135-pound champ was without his job.

Annual Champ production was just over 5,500 in both 1960 and 1961.

Q. How many more years does the champ here have?

Around that time he was part of the group the Champs.

His champ car's average speed was 100.174 miles per hour.

"Not many people thought I would be champ of the world.

I think our team really wanted to get there - to play the world champs.

I tried to retire - but the champ should be pretty.

Which is why I can also go five rounds with the champ.

"You might as well start with a champ," he told her.

We were national champs our senior year and he was the reason.

As a junior he was the national boy's 18-and-under champ in 1925 and 1926.

We used to have this little guy who was the all-time champ.

Get right back on the old horse there, champ, and keep at it.

Beat the champs and you make a name for yourself.

Go down with pride, not the Champ who was afraid.