Pinched

Examples

• In the meantime, the bowels must be severely pinched into obedience. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• And the little pinched nose of his; so thin was it that it looked half starved. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• She pinched her husband's arm as they entered the oak parlour, where Sir Pitt and his wife were ready to receive them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You pinched off one mountain and they pinched off another but when something really started every one had to get down off the mountains. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• She forced a pitiful smile that pinched her face instead of smoothing it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I wadn't heed if t' bairns and t' wife had enough to live on; but they're pinched--they're pined---- Well, my lad, and so are you; I see you are. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Don't be long,' said the spinster affectionately, as Mr. Jingle stuck the pinched-up hat on his head. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But she was made exultant by having her chin pinched and her cheek kissed by Mr. Farebrother--an incident which she narrated to her mother and father. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She pinched May's white arm and watched the colour flood her face. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The phrase, 'I pinched his little bottom for him,' sent her into a white, stony fury. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Many's the time I've pinched his little bottom for him, when he was a child in arMs. Ay, and he'd have been better if he'd had it pinched oftener. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But Billy went softly forward, slow and willing, lifting his pinched-up mouth implicitly to be kissed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The nose, beautifully formed otherwise, was very slightly pinched at the top of each nostril. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I shook her, I chid her, I pinched her fingers when she tried to put me off with gibes and jests in her queer provoking way, and at last out it came. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They all laughed at this, particularly Justinian, who pinched his daughter's ear gently. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• You look a little pinched yourself, by the way: it's rather a sharp night out. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I felt, all this while, as if my ear were blazing; he pinched it so hard. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He was pinched in, and swelled out, and got up, and strapped down, as much as he could possibly bear. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We are being pinched by the acts it nourished. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I don't remember that any individual object had a bare, pinched, spare look; but I do remember that the whole place had. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In the rusty skeleton of a grate, pinched at the middle as if poverty had gripped it, a red coke fire burns low. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I pinched my arms and sides to awake myself, hoping I might be in a dream. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Here, now, Lily, just a drop of cognac in a little fizzy water--you do look pinched, you know: I swear the end of your nose is red. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Look at me, I'm not very fur from fowr-score--he, he; and he laughed, and took snuff, and leered at her and pinched her hand. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mother is not an old maid, said his virgin sister with pinched lips. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• There was a more affecting meaning in her pinched appearance, I thought as I looked round, than I had understood before. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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