You see I couldn't get even a nibble there and so I thought I'd go on up-stream.
"The Crimson Sweater"
Ralph Henry Barbour
Then began a highly amusing exhibition by old fish showing the young ones how to nibble the bait without taking the hook, and if taken by some mischance, how to get unhooked-how to avoid the nets, and other life-saving dodges which his Majesty explained to the astonished Twins.
"The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy"
Mabel Henriette Spielmann
When a couple are at play one will rush ten or a dozen yards away and begin to nibble as if totally unconscious of the other.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies