He nipped her hard enough to hurt.
He didn't move away this time, and she nipped him.
He nipped her neck, and she gasped, yearning and fire tearing through her.
He nipped at her lips, his tongue darting in and out of her mouth.
As against the civilian enemy the navy strangled commerce; its military preponderance nipped in the bud every successive attempt of the Confederates to create a fleet (for each new vessel as it emerged from the estuary or harbour in which it had been built, was destroyed or driven back), while at any given point a secure base was available for the far-ranging operations of the Union armies.
