If her carriage was to meet her at a little distance, let Mr. Pinchbeckby all means see her into it; and if it was not yet come, at least let her wait where she was while Mr. P.
Mrs. Pinchbeck was a lively lady, in a profusion of little fair curls all over her head and a piece of flannel round her throat.
One was a portly and plainly clad old countryman, with a prominent nose, a double chin, and fat hands decorated with pinchbeck rings.
The fat person, the small eyes, the immense double chin, and the chubby fingers covered withpinchbeck rings, were unmistakable.
Pinchbeck metal, of which watchcases and jewellery have been made, consists of copper, 10 parts; and of zinc, 2 parts.
Then after various developments brass and Pinchbeck fob keys came into vogue, and later still ornamental keys with and without the addition of stones, the majority being made in brass.
Pinchbeck at the Fan and Crown in New Round Court, in the Strand.
These two fans had been announced earlier by Pinchbeck on Jan.
On September 22nd, Pinchbeck repeats his advertisement, and once again cautions the public against counterfeits.
Courtenay, arrayed in peach-coloured coat and waistcoat, with black satin breeches and white silk stockings, and pinchbeck buckles a-sparkle on his shoes.
Courtenay came to the assembly very late, with a new fashion of pinchbeck buckles on his pumps and a new manner of taking snuff.
This is saying much for him; for how seldom is it that the hearts and souls of the young are able to withstand pinchbeck and gilding?
So long as she strives to be manlike she will be inferior and a pinchbeck imitation, but she must develop a new sphere that shall be like the rich field of the cloth of gold for the best instincts of her nature.
They have their own ideality and a gaudy pinchbeck honor.
One sees more mares' nests than would fill a book; the other pure gold in pinchbeck wares; and both are out for gudgeons.
This feeling ran through the whole of society, and pinchbeck was considered as at once despicable and disreputable.
There is a large amount of pinchbeck in the appearance of social influence, much cultivated by women of a certain activity of mind and with more definite aims than all women have.
And then, if simplicity became the fashion, we should have our pinchbeck votaries translating that into extremes as they do now with ornamentation; if my lady took to plainness, they would go to nakedness.
It is too good an occasion for the airing of pinchbeck to be disregarded; consequently, for the most part it is turned to this practical account.
Whether the fashion be suited to the material or to the other parts of the dress, is quite a secondary consideration; it being of the essence of pinchbeck to despise both fitness and harmony.
We are in the humour to rehabilitate all things, and pinchbeck has now its turn with the rest.
Mahomed-Shah's majesty crept out of its hiding-place again, and made shift with a pinchbeckpeacock throne, a pretence of power.
In his journeys about the country he carried with him a tray of pinchbeck and of coloured glass, which represented in duplicate a tray of real jewellery and precious stones which was kept under lock and key at the showroom.
It happened, whether by accident or design, that the one tray was substituted for the other, the pinchbeck imitations being left in the jeweller's safe and the real thing carried away by the commercial traveller.
My pinchbeck buckles are admir'd By all who are with taste inspir'd.
We must think of him as a gentleman fond of society, of refined courtly habits, with an aristocratic contempt for pinchbeck upstarts, yet not unwilling now and then to play the good-natured acquaintance with middle-class people.
Since this was the fashion, imitations were sure to become popular, and a thin veneering of foreign speech became the mark of a pinchbeck culture, just as it has been so frequently since.
Whether the fashion will be suited to the material, or to the other parts of the dress, is quite a secondary consideration, it being of the essence of pinchbeck to despise both fitness and harmony.
It is too good an occasion for the airing of pinchbeck to be disregarded, and, consequently, for the most part is turned to this practical account.
We are in the humor to rehabilitate all things, and pinchbeck has now its turn with the rest.
There is a large amount of pinchbeck in the appearance of social influence, much cultivated by women of a certain activity of mind, and with more definite aims than all women have.
All the same, I am not sure whether, if I had been in Peter Zouche's shoes, I should have seen through the sharp practice of thispinchbeck Napoleon so easily.
Indeed, there is no end to the crazy ambition of this pinchbeck Napoleon.
It was only a pinchbeck locket with a woman's face in it--a pinchbeck locket in the form of a heart.
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