" He took a pinch of snuff, and leaned forward to tap me gently on the knee, his expression coldly genial.

Sift 1-1/2 pints of flour; add a pinch of salt, 1 teaspoonful of soda mixed with 1 pint of sour milk.

" The Colonel and the Boy looked at their claims and felt the pinch of uncertainty.

"Noa," replied the ingenuous peasant, ignorant of the quality of his interrogator;"noa; and I should very much like to know how to do it," changing the position of his burthen, and giving his load a surreptitious pinch of the ear, which immediately altered the tone and volume of his complaining.

Thereupon, hauling out his precious snuffbox and rapping upon the lid, he offered a pinch around.

And getting the box, she carried it to her mother, who was still more surprised; for she never had got a pinch from Mr. Henderson nor any one, though she sometimes, for her breathing, took a draught of a pipe at night.

He knew the awful pinch of life up here, and he thought no less of his comrades for asking that last service of getting them home.

Soak 1 pound of stale bread in hot milk; then add 1/2 pound of sugar, 1 pound of seeded raisins, and 1 pound of currants all dredged with flour, 1/4 pound of chopped citron, 1 pound of finely chopped beef suet, 1 nutmeg grated, 1 tablespoonful of cinnamon, cloves and mace mixed together, a pinch of salt, 1 glass of wine and 1 glass of fine brandy.

Or, heat the tomatoes just as they come from the can, adding two pinches of salt and one-half spoonful of sugar, if desired.

This greatly disgusted their friend, the American Beaver, who didn't care a pinch of snuff about color, (black is not a color, you know,) but who went in for faithful and persistent work.

"Been paddlin'?" he inquired "I see you going down the road in 'em," said the unabashed Mr. Foley, "and I says to myself, I says, 'Pride'll bear a pinch, but she's going too far.

I eased my horse a little going up Flea Creek pinch, but with this delay reached my destination in half an hour, and sent the men galloping in the direction of the fire.

The third day we got down four inches and a half, in the softest soil we could find; but it would only grind up pinch by pinch.

not a single word of it!" Polly was too excited to heed Miss Sterling's warning pinch.

" Mac pointed out a rough knot-hole, too, that slyly held back a pinch of gold.

"Looks kind of like fine-cutsmells kind of like the real thing"here he removed the quid from his mouth and introduced the great pinch of tobacco"an' I'll be damned if it don't taste a pile the same!"

Bill, the only son of a widow whose small means were hardly adequate for the needs of herself and boy, did all he could to lessen the daily pinch.

"None o' them love pinches, Rowena!" "I swan to man if that Dutchman ain't cuttin' us all out!" "Quit courtin' an' pass them molasses, sweetness!" "Mo' po'k an' less honey, thar!"this from a Missourian.

Enter Marshal R.U.E. with business of making a pinch.

"At garter-snakes," added Malcolm, giving his sister a sly pinch; but Edith did not mind his pinches, because he always took good care not to hurt her.

And Oline, poor creature, she might well be needing a pinch of coffee now and again, whether by chance she managed to get the money from Axel to pay for it, or bartered a goats' milk cheese in exchange.

Extinct are those smiles, with that beautiful countenance, with which (for thou wert the Nircus formosus of the school), in the days of thy maturer waggery, thou didst disarm the wrath of infuriated town-damsel, who, incensed by provoking pinch, turning tigress-like round, suddenly converted by thy angel-look, exchanged the half-formed terrible "bl," for a gentler greeting"bless thy handsome face!"

" "Well, you be careful and don't push him too quickly up that pinch by Flea Creek, or he might drop dead with you.

" Mr. Boxer winked at Mr. Thompson, and received an understanding pinch in return; Mrs. Thompson in a hot whisper told them to behave themselves.

Mere charity for instance, while relieving the pinch of hunger, demoralises the recipient.