"Matters reached such a pitch at last that it became plain that I must either consent to marry the man I loathed or leave my home for good.

The old proverb, that one cannot touch pitch without being defiled, happily does not stand true here, or the place would be intolerably loathsome.

In the middle ages, when conjuration had attained a certain pitch of perfection, and was regularly practised in Europe, devils of distinction were supposed to make their appearance under decided forms, by which they were as well recognised, as the head of any ancient family would be by his crest and armorial bearings.

The report was, that for a trifling circumstance, for which he was in no-wise to blame, the captain had fastened him with his belly to the deck, and that, in this situation, he had poured hot pitch upon his back, and made incisions in it with hot tongs.

The chief took some pitch and had it boiled in a kettle.

The moment the idea of the play-scene presented itself to the author's mind, it became absolutely unthinkable that he should, to put it vulgarly, "queer the pitch" for the Players by showing us the real facts of which their performance was to be the counterfeit presentment.

Near the bottom they overtook the Askews, and one or two others walking at their horses' heads as they cautiously descended a steep pitch.

But his cruel insults now quashed despair and roused dormant indignation to fever pitch.

From the very first he had been leader of the choir, and had given the pitch with a fork hammered and tuned by his own hands.

She had trained herself to a long stride and a swaggering demeanor, and by constant practice she had been able to lower the pitch of her voice and roughen its quality.

That day she did nothing, for after teaching her to thread the worm, and put the gentles on the smaller hooks, I sent her to hunt for worms to chop up for ground-baiting the pitch for the next afternoon; and when this was done it was dinner-time, and I sent her home, for by then I was giving the reading-lessons in the morning.

The screw could be altered while it was revolving, and as the wind freshened they coarsened the pitch, and when they wanted to stop the engines they coarsened the pitch so as to bring the screw right fore and aft, so that they never altered the way of the ship in changing from steam to sail alone.

Here are vast forests, unctuous with turpentine, annually producing pitch, tar, rosin, and ship-timber, with material for houses, boats, fuel, and lightwood, while the mossy drapery of the trees in suitable for pillows and cushions.

De best singers is dem dat's longes' trainin' an' I'se feared some of us'll find it drefful hard ter git up ter de proper concert pitch in heaven ef we sings nuthin but lamentashuns on earth.

R114837, 20Jul53, Bert O. Godfrey (A) Universal chart for measuring, correcting, and adjusting pitch of propeller wheels.

One expected headache or colic; a second had pictured to himself the sailors falling down from exhaustion; a third dreaded such a fearful degree of heat, that it would not only melt the pitch, {11} but would so dry up the ship, that nothing but continual throwing water over it could prevent its catching fire; while a fourth feared that all the provisions would be spoilt, and ourselves nearly starved to death.

It cannot strike the right pitch, and generally he does himself no sort of justice.

But if his stars hath favour'd him so ill, As to debar him by his dunghill thoughts, Justly to esteem my verses' lowting pitch, If his earth-rooting snout shall 'gin to scorn My verse that giveth immortality; Then Bella per Emathios PHANTASMA.

You have wounded me to the very heart, and have taught me to what a pitch the villainy of man can extend.

Her blood rose to fighting pitch even while her heart misgave her.

In spite of the innumerable circles he was describing per second, he thought; for thought is wonderfulsometimes as sluggish as flowing pitch, sometimes as instantaneous as light.

Tester I'll have in pouch, when thou shalt lack, Base Phrygian Turk,' etc. "Let's see e'er an Abencerrago fly a higher pitch.

They followed up a steep pitch of stairs to the first floor of the hotel, where the landing had been widened to form a little office.

The southerly wind is failing already, and in half an hour the ships will be frying the pitch off their decks, without a breath of air; when the wind does come, it will come out at west, and bring us all four or five leagues dead to leeward!

Only those officers and men who served afloat in the years immediately preceding the opening of hostilities know how great the struggle was to gain that high pitch of efficiency which the Navy had reached at the outbreak of war, and it was the devotion to duty of our magnificent pre-war personnel that went far to ensure our victory.