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Sentences ending with pinch

I'm very comfortable where I am; that is, I know just where the pinch comes, and if it comes harder, why, I've got used to bearing that kind of pinch. [8]
Thine might fail thee in some pinch. [5]
Simon sighed and stooped to straighten the leash a young borzoi had entangled; the count too sighed and, noticing the snuffbox in his hand, opened it and took a pinch. [2]
But they'd better not call it December first in my presence; I'll let them say January first, at a pinch. [8]
Yes, Monsieur de Carondelet, though fat, was on horseback before dawn, New Orleans was fortified as it never had been before, the militia organized, real cannon were on the ramparts which could shoot at a pinch. [9]
Detricand bowed, accepted, and took a pinch. [11]
Colonel Clark laughed and gave me a pinch. [9]

Sentences containing pinch two or more times

He also had offered her a pinch of snuff, which she acknowledged by gravely offering a pinch of her own from a dirty twist of brown paper. [11]

More example sentences with the word pinch in them

Wolf said the whole Parliament wasn't worth a pinch of powder. [5]
But that was where the pinch was felt, and felt first. [4]
But the mandibles were not strong enough to pinch my finger so as to cause actual pain. [1]
I know the way of knives, or a rifle, or a pinch at the throat--she should die! [11]
The oily auctioneer was inviting the people to pinch the wares. [9]
Her brother Sampson under such circumstances would certainly have evinced some confusion or anxiety, but she--all composure--pulled out the tin box, and calmly took a pinch of snuff. [12]
The old man took a pinch of snuff nervously. [11]
He reached out to pinch her cheek, but she deftly tipped her head and caught his outstretched fingers. [11]
At first, in the excitement and the confusion, amid the debris of so much possible wealth, Mavick kept a sort of position, and did not immediately feel the pinch of vulgar poverty. [4]
He opened his snuff-box, took a pinch, turned on his heel, and sauntered off. [9]
He drew his snuff-box from his pocket, opened it, and slowly taking a pinch, raised it towards his nose, but the hand paused half-way, as though a new thought arrested it. [11]
The pinch of snuff fell from the fingers of the old man on to the white stuff of his short-clothes, but as Guida entered the room and stood still a moment, he did not stir in his seat. [11]
As for Mr. Riddle, he went to the door, looked out, and took a last pinch of snuff. [9]
He gathered a rag here, a splinter there, and a pinch of earth yonder, inspected them profoundly, and preserved them. [5]
He took another pinch of snuff, and again forgot to put it to his nose, but brushed imaginary dust from his coat, as was his wont, and whispered to himself: "Why now, why now, I had not thought she was so much a woman. [11]
He took a pinch of snuff and brushed his waistcoat before he spoke. [9]
He dropped a pinch of dill into the barley-porridge, and shook his gray head solemnly. [10]
He wanted to pinch him, push him, do anything but kiss him--a thing everybody did. [2]
Already the pinch of corruption had nipped his flesh; he was useless, motionless in his narrow house, and yet, unseen but powerful, his influence went on. [11]
Cold, unsympathetic she might be, cruel at a pinch perhaps, but dishonourable--never! [11]
He cursed the man and all his ancestry and all his posterity, sleeping and waking, until the day when he, Mahommed, would pinch his flesh with red hot irons. [11]
Extract from a letter to Orion Clemens, in Carson City: 1862 If I do not forget it, I will send you, per next mail, a pinch of decom. [5]
Twice within the last month Jean had given her ear a friendly pinch, and now Guida had kissed her--surely she had reason to carry her weight more lightly. [11]
Then, after reflecting for a short time, he said: "I do not find in either of you what I require; but at a pinch we are fain to eat moldy bread, so I must need choose between you two. [10]
How he looks down on the poor wretch who, by the pinch of necessity, has come down from being a sculptor of the highest promise to being a mere gem-cutter! [10]
Now and again Doltaire drew out a box and took a pinch of snuff, and once, coolly and curiously, he walked up to the most stalwart prisoner and felt his pulse, then to the weakest, whose limbs and body had stiffened as though dead. [11]
He sat, sunk deep in a folding armchair, and continually cleared his throat and pulled at the collar of his coat which, though it was unbuttoned, still seemed to pinch his neck. [2]
But a man cannot be hit in mortal places once or twice in his life without its being etched on his face or dropped like a pinch of aloe from his tongue. [11]
The victim cried, but in a subdued manner as if she feared to raise her voice, and Miss Sally, comforting herself with a pinch of snuff, ascended the stairs, just as Richard had safely reached the office. [12]
I went there, and there was a pinch of delicate pink dust in the hole. [5]
Whereupon the brother and sister took each a noisy pinch of snuff from the little tin box, and fell into a gloomy thoughtfulness. [12]
He smiled an acid smile, and took a pinch of snuff. [11]
You can't make a village or a parish or a family think alike, yet you suppose that you can make a world pinch its beliefs or pad them to a single pattern! [6]
He hurriedly took a pinch of snuff. [2]
And he took a pinch of snuff before he spoke. [9]
Then he took a pinch of Holland and began. [9]
The countess reflected a moment and took a pinch from a gold snuffbox with her husband's portrait on it. [2]

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