Crossword-Solution: GNAWINGS 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

When men make mistakes, he says,— “One might perhaps expect gnawings of conscience and repentance to help to bring them on the right path, and might thereupon conclude (as every one does conclude) that these affections are good things.

This he continued until his hands and arms had become almost tremulous with the strain, and then he devised something else: two leather gloves; and he caused a brazier to fit them all over with sharp‐pointed brass tacks, and he used to put them on at night, in order that if he should try while asleep to throw off the hair undergarment, or relieve himself from the gnawings of the vile insects, the tacks might then stick into his body.

These long lifeless books, once most dainty, but now become corrupt and loathsome, covered with litters of mice and pierced with the gnawings of the worms, and who were once clothed in purple and fine linen, now lying in sackcloth and ashes, given up to oblivion, seemed to have become habitations of the moth.

What is best in a state of brimful, equable suffering is that it does away with the gnawings of petty sensations.

Desperate with the gnawings of his empty stomach, he accosted several doctors who were speaking French, but all in vain.