Squeezed

Examples

• Georgiana, as if the supplication were being squeezed out of her by powerful compression. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mrs. Sowerberry emerged from a little room behind the shop, and presented the form of a short, then, squeezed-up woman, with a vixenish countenance. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I descended to the bottom of the hollow, squeezed my way through a hedge, and got out into a lane. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I squeezed the tighter. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Under these new conditions, the workers in many industries found themselves intolerably squeezed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• An upper floor was dedicated to Newland, and the two women squeezed themselves into narrower quarters below. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• They do see that humanity is badly squeezed in the existing mould. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I tell you, she squeezed up her child in her arms, and talked, and went on real awful. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Each was being squeezed by the same system. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The cloth is dipped into a body of starch, or the same is applied by hand, and then the superfluous starch squeezed out as the clothes are passed through the rollers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Strange that Creation, designed expressly for Monseigneur, should be so soon wrung dry and squeezed out! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Those were the last words he said to me before he squeezed his huge body into the cab and drove off. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I squeezed it dry to-day. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Mr. Vholes's office, in disposition retiring and in situation retired, is squeezed up in a corner and blinks at a dead wall. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he squeezed out the pips upon the table. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I declare I am squeezed to death. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He had got somebody to scrawl it up for him, however, who had squeezed Death in with most inappropriate difficulty. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• They squeezed me so hard sometimes, that I could not help crying out, 'Oh! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Another form has vibrating arms or beaters, giving between four hundred and five hundred strokes a minute, and by which the clothes are squeezed between rubbing corrugated boards. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Licence, dearest of angels--give notice at the church--call you mine, to-morrow'--said Mr. Jingle, and he squeezed the spinster aunt's hand. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Other kinds of cutting machines are contrived, by which sheets of writing paper, when collected in quires, are squeezed tightly together, and their edges are smoothly and evenly cut. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I don't think she was squeezed more than she richly deserves for her airs. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He called me his soul's darling, four times; he squeezed my hand in Amelia's presence. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The blank is then squeezed, which gives to the part that is to become the handle a little more of the appearance that it will have later. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Ashamed of his momentary pique, Laurie squeezed the kind little hand, and said frankly, I'm the one to be forgiven. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• By moving a lever by hand up and down, the clothes are thoroughly rubbed, squeezed and lifted at each stroke. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He put his hand on the girl's thigh and squeezed it in a friendly way. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I told you they dressed me up, but I didn't tell you that they powdered and squeezed and frizzled, and made me look like a fashion-plate. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Why, he said, there is little to be squeezed out of people who have little. Plato. The Republic.

Editor: Randolph