1549 examples of pinch in sentences

Here were the neglected chambers, lumbered with heaps and parcels of books, where Tom Pinch was set to work by Mr. Fips, and where old Martin Chuzzlewit revealed himself in due time and knocked Mr. Pecksniff into a corner.

" His face grew thoughtful, then the rogue Lisped out: "Well, this is most in vogue: An acorn-cup of sugar first, Sprinkle quite well with bubbles burst, Then add a pinch of down that lies All over June's brown butterflies.

All vegetable foods (in their natural state) contain all these elements, and, at a pinch, human life might be supported on any one of them.

I say "at a pinch" because if the nuts, cereals and pulses were ruled out of the dietary, it would, for most people, be deficient in fat and proteid.

Add this to the cooked rice with butter the size of a walnut, and a pinch of savoury herbs.

Scoop out the pulp and mix to a stiff paste with bread-crumbs, a little finely-chopped onion, and a pinch of savoury herbs.

Then I turned me about, and went into the hole with my feet that way; and I found that it was so deep into the rock as the length of two men, and just so wide as I could lie in it without having it to pinch me.

And afterward, I made some of the water, and it did fizz up in a moment; so that I perceived that but a good pinch made a great cup-full.

Yet a true crab of this day been wishful to pinch me, had I put my toe forth unto it.

avarice, greed &c 817.1. miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm^, scrimp, lickpenny^, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer; Hessian [U.S.]; pinch fist, pinch penny.

avarice, greed &c 817.1. miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm^, scrimp, lickpenny^, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer; Hessian [U.S.]; pinch fist, pinch penny.

V. be parsimonious &c adj.; grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint.

If I am particularly happy, I always long to pinch somebody.

He drew a box from his waistcoat pocket, opened it, with an emphatic knock upon the lid, took a pinch of snuff and restored it to his waistcoat pocket as before.

All his past life seemed to be symbolized by the building-up and breaking-down of those fluctuating shapes, which incalculable wind-currents perpetually shifted and remodelled or swept from the zenith like a pinch of dust.

15 The trembling family they daunt; They flirt, they sing, they laugh, they tattle, Rummage his mother, pinch his aunt, And up-stairs in a whirlwind rattle.

Their sensibility changed to fury must needs feed itself for a while on the hideous spectacle; they must, as if to revive themselves, hear the piercing shrieks, and see the flow of fresh blood; there are some of them who, in their frantic rage, pinch and bite their victims.

And he would pinch her ear.

He got up to walk over and pinch Tweetie's blushing cheek.

Dickens was acquainted with Salisbury, but not until after he had made it the scene of Tom Pinch's remarkable characterization"a very desperate sort of place; an exceedingly wild and dissipated city."

Would Durgan fail at the pinch and mismanage it so as to give the alarm?

You know, sir, they make pets of any thing, and every thing, at a pinch!"

She will easily carry two on us, and, on a pinch, she might carry half a dozen.

Throw pipe ashes and cigar or cigarette stubs in the dust of the road and stamp or pinch out the fire before leaving them.

he!" Mrs. Plausaby The Inhabitant A Pinch of Snuff Mrs. Ferret One Savage Blow full in the Face "What on Airth's the Matter?" His Unselfish Love found a Melancholy Recompense The Editor of "The Windmill" "Git up and Foller!" THE MYSTERY OF METROPOLISVILLE.

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