Pitched

Examples

• Beams crossed the opening down into the main floor where the hay-carts drove in when the hay was hauled in to be pitched up. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Samuel Edison, versatile, buoyant of temper, and ever optimistic, would thus appear to have pitched his tent with shrewd judgment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Then as the horse pitched down he had dropped down behind his warm, wet back to get the gun to going as they came up the hill. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Came back to our Department, and Pitched into me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Went up to our place and Pitched into my father to that extent that it was necessary to order him out. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• From the entrance into the lists, a gently sloping passage, ten yards in breadth, led up to the platform on which the tents were pitched. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• On the other side of the lawn, facing the targets, was pitched a real tent, with benches and garden-seats about it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• When I wos first pitched neck and crop into the world, to play at leap- frog with its troubles,' replied Sam. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It was not far to Longmeadow, but the tent was pitched and the wickets down by the time they arrived. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• We had many pitched battles, during which no word was spoken, hardly a look was interchanged, but in which each resolved not to submit to the other. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The employment of a high-pitched musical note in the telephone is also an advantage because its extreme regularity distinguishes it from the marked irregularity of the stray waves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The afternoon was wet: a walk the party had proposed to take to see a gipsy camp, lately pitched on a common beyond Hay, was consequently deferred. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The wickets were pitched, and so were a couple of marquees for the rest and refreshment of the contending parties. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And when all these Kings were met together, they came and pitched together by the Waters of Merom, to fight against Israel. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In one instance the resentment of the victim of such unsought publicity was so intense he laid hands on Edison and pitched the startled young editor into the St. Clair River. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• General Hurlbut was in command there at the time and had his headquarters tents pitched on the lawn of a very commodious country house. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Who pitched that 'ere at me? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• And all the while, Ursula, spell-bound, kept up her high-pitched thin, irrelevant song, which pierced the fading evening like an incantation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He had not even remembered that it was low-pitched, with a faint roughness on the consonants. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The huge green fragment of ice on which she alighted pitched and creaked as her weight came on it, but she staid there not a moment. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The ensilage is pitched into a cart with forks and the cart driven into the feeding barn between the two rows of cows which stand facing each other. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• There was a chute so that hay might be pitched down to the cattle. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The viola is larger than the violin, has heavier and thicker strings, and is pitched to a lower key; in all other respects the two are similar. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He was pitched out of his gig once, and knocked, head first, against a milestone. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• This was a real pitched battle in which the Israelites lost 30,000 (! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Suddenly he lurched wildly to one side and pitched violently to the ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The violoncello, because of the length and thickness of its strings, is pitched a whole octave lower than the violin; otherwise it is similar. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Then I too with the boy still tightly clutched in my arms pitched backward into the black abyss. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• If it hadn't been for him, I'd a pitched some on 'em down here, to see how they liked it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He made her no answer; and only observed, after again examining the room, that it was very low pitched, and that the ceiling was crooked. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.

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