Do we say clench or clinch

clench 49 occurrences

CHAPTER IV FROM 1816 TO 1919 Poor mites; you stiffen on a bench And stoop your curls to dusty laws; Your petal fingers curve and clench In slavery to parchment saws; You suit your hearts to sallow faces In sullen places:

"Why so?" "Betimes thou dost smile upon the moonfor no reason; scowl upon the earthfor no reason; work with thy lips yet speak no word, and therewith do bite thy fingers-ends, clench thy fistsand all for no reason.

" "Commodore, I wish you twenty more good hearty years of fishing in this lake, which grows, each instant, more beautiful in my eyes, as I confess does the whole earth; and to show you that I say no more than I think, I will clench it with a draught.

he went on in a voice which made the old man start from his seat and clench his fist but he sat down again.

"Griffinberg, Wirsch, and the rest are with meor nearly soI have got them down to clench the matter.

Her brows bent; her little hand seemed to clench.

" "Rather than that should happen, deacon, I will cheerfully take two oaths; one to clench the other.

At the time Peter felt there was an clench in the Illinoisan's logic, but he was not skilful enough to analyze it.

The very name caused him to clench his hands.

My breath came so fast that I was almost giddy, and I had to clench my hands to remind myself of where I was, and what was going on.

Another thing, in which Mr. Malthus attempted to clench Wallace's argument, was in giving to the disproportionate power of increase in the principle of population and the supply of food a mathematical form, or reducing it to the arithmetical and geometrical ratios, in which we believe Mr. Malthus is now generally admitted, even by his friends and admirers, to have been wrong.

Then she seemed to stiffen a little; I saw her hands clench over the arms of her chair.

For the next world as for this; will clear your name From calumnies which argue worldliness; Buy of itself the joys of paradise; And clench your lordship's interest with the pontiff.

She would sit in her room trying to work at her school papers, and suddenly she would clench her fists, turn pale, and stare despairingly at the blank wall.

She saw his hands clench against his sides.

For you must let me clench this God's truth into your minds; that you stand now in your last lot, in the end of your days when the Son of Man cometh again.

It is meant to clench into our minds the God's truth that we must stand by our faith with the arms of war if need be.

] The gentleman from Kentucky rose as he spoke and, adroit in managing men, reached out his hand as though to take the other's and so to clench the matter.

my hands would clench together, and my fingers press the palms of my hands to close, that, had any soft thing been between, it would have crushed it involuntarily, while my teeth would strike together, and set against each other so strong that it required some time for me to part them.

When he saw Donald Brown turn white and clench the hands he dropped from his friend's shoulders, Atchison realized what he had done.

"After matters have proceeded satisfactorily the girl, anxious to clench the matter, asks when they are to be married.

This Expedition of Alexander opens with his consulting the oracle at Delphos, in which the dumb Conjuror, who has been visited by so many Persons of Quality of late Years, is to be introduced as telling him his Fortune; At the same time Clench of Barnet is represented in another Corner of the Temple, as ringing the Bells of Delphos, for joy of his arrival.

The Master made no gesture with his hands, did not frown or clench his fists, but remained impassively calm.

" Pendleton, listening with dwindling interest, saw Ashton-Kirk's hand clench, and saw a gleam shoot into his eyes.

BRITANNIA takes it, with a grip That on the sword, at need, can clench too, too!

clinch 223 occurrences

But if you find a painter, or a bear, takin' a nap in your path, and don't want to have a clinch with him, wake him up before you get right onto him, or he'll be very likely to think he's cornered, and them animals have onpleasant ways with 'em when they're in that fix.

The absence of all notes of life in that direction seemed to clinch his intentions, and he knocked at the door.

I offered myself to Satan for a good lieanything, I didn't care what, to clinch matters, and bring the King to terms.

I knew if I could clinch the deal, and get the option, that some friends of mine would invest in it, and I'd have a good thing for myself.

"The value of a sum lies in the answer," he said, quoting one of those copybook proverbs with which all Syrians love to clinch an argument.

She then proceeded to clinch the matter by inserting a thermometer in his mouth.

a thousand times; and my desires were so moved by it, that when I spoke the words my hands would clinch together, and my fingers would press the palms of my hands, so that if I had had any soft thing in my hand, it would have crushed it involuntarily; and the teeth in my head would strike together, and set against one another so strong, that for some time I could not part them again.

Can all this force you to put the cap upon the climaxto clinch the nail by doing that, without which nothing in the work of slave-making would be attempted?

Now then, you run along and don't never try to feint me into a clinch.

Bancroft-Whltney Co. (PWH); 20Oct58; R223192. CALKINS, CLINCH.

SEE Merrell, Marion Clinch Calkins.

pb id='148.png' n='1965h1/A/1080' /> MERRELL, MARION CLINCH CALKINS.

By Clinch Calkins.

Clinch Calkins (Marion Clinch Calkins Merrell) (A); 1Apr65; R358330.

Clinch Calkins (Marion Clinch Calkins Merrell) (A); 1Apr65; R358330.

Four plants of the Temperate Zone: a grope approaching, unaware, a clinch in hiding, creatures of the meadow; series of drawings.

" Clinch seized the pen, which the admiral, who had lost his right arm only a few years before, really felt unable to use, and wrote as follows: "SirImmediately on the receipt of this, you will fire three heavy guns, at intervals of half a minute, as a signal to the Proserpine to suspend an execution.

Clinch eagerly inquired.

"It is Mr. Clinch, the master's-mate of the accursed Proserpine; he who spoke us in the yawl, off the point yonder.

Even this slight movement caused me to clinch my teeth in agony, and she cried out, "You are hurt?

Ted thought he would follow up his advantage and clinch the point at once.

But to clinch all, he had no notion of letting the Pilgrim offend her by his presence.

He was also heard, by the shopman at Rutherford Street, to use a very shocking expression in reference to Mrs. Yatman; and was seen to clinch his fist vindictively, as he ran round the corner of the street.

The new boy tried to clinch Mealy, but the naked body slipped away from him; and just then the combatants saw the satisfied grin freeze on the faces of the boys in the water.

The country boy was striking wildly, and trying to clinch his antagonist, when the town marshalthe bogie-man of all boysstopped the fight.

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