Nose, eyes, jaw announced obstinacy, and the eyes, quick and fiery, warned you that it was of the aggressive kind which not only holds to its purpose, but never ceases nagging until it be attained.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Every day the gang had bored and pounded and wrenched, piercing his body with nervous, nagging drills; propping up his backbone, cutting out tender bits of flesh, carving-bracing-only to carve again.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith
The Widow's voice rose to the old quarrelsome, nagging pitch, and Wiley winced as if he had been stabbed.
"Shadow Mountain"
Dane Coolidge