Hitched

Examples

• She had an elfin chin that was capable of great expression; and whenever she gave this look, she hitched this chin up. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• When you come down-stairs into the kitchen with the candle in your hand, and hitched my apron off my head. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Mr Boffin hitched up a chair, and added his broad brown right hand to the heap. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• What is inherently repulsive is endured for the sake of averting something still more repulsive or of securing a gain hitched on by others. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He only needed to be hitched on, he needed that his hand should be set to the task, because he was so unconscious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I asked to have him hitched to a farm wagon and we would soon see whether he would work. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They were then led out, harnessed by force and hitched to the wagon in the position they had to keep ever after. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• To all the coal-fields and all the waterfalls Faraday had directly hitched the wheels of industry. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It had been customary, as in olden times, to push the apparatus forward by a horse or horses hitched behind. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He hitched pretty nigh across de room, t' other night, said Pete. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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