Yet she was grateful for Miss Mitford's glowing friendship, and all the pretty gush was accepted, although perhaps with good large pinches of the Syracuse product.
There would be no more straits and pinches of poverty, and he had suffered a good many during the last three years.
Her white cheeks had soft, sodden depressions and under her eyes were little pinches in the skin, as though hot fingers had nipped her there.
Do not imagine that they labour: it is enough for them when they have sown pinches of corn in shallow holes, for nature does all the rest.
He caresses the children, and gives them nice things to eat, but he also whips and pinches them if naughty.
Monin, terrified by that threat, retreated behind the chair and took three pinches in rapid succession.
A few pinches of tea were found rolled up in a scrap of red paper.
You all know where the German's shoe pinches him; you all know what faults Englishmen and Frenchmen have; and your miserable knowledge only serves to help you to justify your shameful laziness, your abominable idleness.
Even now when I am writing upon the table, he is giving me malicious pinches under it.
Zephyr is a northeast wind, that makes Damon button up to the chin, and pinches Chloe's nose till it is red and blue; and then they cry, this is a bad summer!
According to the newspaper reports, I won twenty-one or twenty-two games before Cincinnati beat me again, so it can be seen that joshing inpinches is not effective against all pitchers.
The Giants were having a nip and tuck game with the Cubs in the early part of last summer, when Devore came to the bat in one of those pinches and shot a three bagger over third base which won the game.
But there would be, and, if the pitcher did not conserve his energy, the pinches would usually go against him.
We 'aint got no bees;' and with that he took one of his tremendous pinches of snuff.
In the midst of all his hurry, however, he would find time every now and then to put his hand into his vest pocket, and taking out large pinches of snuff, would regale his olfactory sense, and apparently with great zest.
He kept looking first at one, and then at the other, for some explanation, taking large pinches of snuff all the time from a horn box which he held in his hand.
Add twopinches of salt and, after stirring, pour off the water and empty rice out on meat can.
Or, heat the tomatoes just as they come from the can, adding two pinches of salt and one-half spoonful of sugar, if desired.
I began pinching myself, making the pinches keep time with the snores of a Turk in one of the beds opposite, but in a little while the noises stopped and I nearly fell asleep while waiting for the next snore.
The little swab pinches half our parcels—why should we feed him?
It is not merely that you feel where the shoe pinches yourself, more than where it pinches another: that is all quite right.
His pinches must have been considerable, for every sniff lasted from two to three seconds, and could be heard distinctly all over the kirk.
We were soon good friends, however, and he was as pleased with our company as we were with his, but we accepted no more pinches of snuff in Scotland.
Two leaves produced, two rough indented leaves, Cautious hepinches from the second stalk A pimple, that portends a future sprout, And interdicts its growth.
Fellows pay with pinches of dust for liquors whose names they did not know a year ago.
It is good, it is good," said the King, eyeing them between pinches of snuff.
Then, having taken several copious pinches of snuff, old Untuswa commenced the tale which follows.
I guess the shoe pinches on the other foot now, Mawruss," Abe retorted as he put on his hat.
We thought they was suckers when they paid us ten thirty-three, thirty-three for him, but I guess the shoe pinches on the other foot, Barney.
Professor Pinches has shown[298] that his name is a rendering of that of Merodach.
The dove was certainly not a popular bird in the religious art of Babylonia and Assyria, but in one of the hymns translated by Professor Pinches Ishtar says, "Like a lonely dove I rest".
Professor Pinches points out that as a sun god, and "at the same time not Shamash", Ashur resembled Merodach.
Professor Pinches shows that one of his names, Mermer, was also a non-Semitic name of Ramman.
Professor Pinches in The Old Testament in the Light of the Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia, and other vols.
The flocks of Tammuz, Professor Pinches suggests, "recall the flocks of the Greek sun god Helios.
Professor Pinches suggests that he may have been either identical with the Sumerian fire god Gibil, or a brother of the fire god, and an impersonation of the light of fire and sun.
She hates to bring wood, for her foot gets cold, and then the sore bunch pinches her much worse.
That other pinches are administered later, at the time of eating, seems very likely, but I cannot say anything for certain, because the sequel escapes me.
Now and then a buzzard is shot, and if it be only wounded the gunner conceals himself and pinches it till it calls, when the bird's partner presently appears, and is also killed.
The other discovery of Mr. Pinches is still more interesting.
The discovery is of high importance when we remember that Abraham migrated from Ur of the Chaldees, and adds another to the many debts of gratitude due to Mr. Pinches from Biblical students.
On the cloth thirty-six pinches of rice are dropped in a heap, and with them turmeric and red powder, all scarers of demons, are mixed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pinches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
