It spoke of antiquity, no doubt, but it was a dismal and graceless antiquity of narrow purposes and niggling thrift.
"The Market-Place" by Harold Frederic
You want to have ideas, Mary; get hold of something big; never mind making mistakes, but don't niggle.
"Night and Day" by Virginia Woolf
I'm Ellen Niggle, of the Ladies' Brasspolishing Guild.
"The Toys of Peace" by Saki
But any little niggling scruple is more to you than I am.
"Zuleika Dobson" by Max Beerbohm
That schoolgirl's niggle is worse than the first.
"Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I)" by Charlotte M. Yonge
Mavis worked with a will; her bold, unaffected handwriting emphasised the niggling scrawliness of Miss Hunter's previous entries in the book.
"Sparrows" by Horace W. C. Newte
There need be no niggling to remove sharp angles, or to make the fragment shapely.
"The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots, 16th Edition" by Sutton and Sons
Here is a stately Lady in the case: We mustn't, now, be fidgetting, and niggling.
"Broad Grins" by George Colman, the Younger
Their souls were above trade and its petty nigglings.
"In a Little Town" by Rupert Hughes
There goes another 'niggling' match!
"Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl" by Isabel Katherine Hornibrook
Riordan was tired with the long chase and the niggling insufficiency of his oxygen supply.
"Duel on Syrtis" by Poul William Anderson
On the other hand, there would be no want, no mean and niggling economies, no battle for daily bread.
"The Squire's Daughter" by Silas K(itto) Hocking
He had a firm direct stroke, never niggled or scumbled, and his loading was restrained though very effective.
"Art Principles" by Ernest Govett
They fell to work without niggling, for Jack rushed in like a bull, leading most violently with his left.
"My Lord Duke" by E. W. Hornung
But the way Buck was niggling along it looked as if it might be going to take us all night.
"The Wreckers" by Francis Lynde
In the main they were small and niggling, and not particularly magnanimous.
"A Gamble with Life" by Silas K. Hocking
Things were made as unpleasant as was reasonably possible for them in all kinds of niggling ways around Adrianople.
"The Balkan Peninsula" by Frank Fox
It was rather a niggling process: he made one or two abortive attempts.
"The Twickenham Peerage" by Richard Marsh
Whyman wrote a small and niggling hand, the hand of a mean man.
"The Stolen Statesman" by William Le Queux
These were written in French, in a niggling mean little hand which Mr. Herrick had never seen before.
"Mohawks, Volume 3 of 3" by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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City Hall is niggling over what a taste is, but almost every little brewery in Northern California has a bar or tasting room where the public can buy a pint.
At the same time, county officials freed of myriad niggling issues could seek big-time gains.
And when it comes to the 802.11b Wi-Fi standard, we usually get it, with a niggling caveat.
His bald head, covered in shadow but sharply defined, tilts forward at a niggling angle—as if its weight were increasingly untenable.
Every so often, you run into a little niggling glitch that throws everything that you're doing off-track, and then you drive yourself batty trying to figure out what that little niggling bit is.
I am ashamed to say I have been ignoring a niggling feeling to get myself to Romania for a very long time.
A couple of items from the world of writing and assessment have been niggling at me of late.
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