He rose and cautiously approached the fence with the intention of pinching the impudent stranger, suddenly and surreptitiously, and sending her away weeping.
He can easily get a good manager to run his lumber business until he finds a customer for it, and in the meantime we will be charging his account with our freight- bills against him and gradually pay off the loan without pinching ourselves.
The shoots to be kept thin and regular, pinching out any that are not wanted.
The stopping or pinching out the points of strong shoots must be regularly attended to during their growing season, to establish a uniformity of sturdy growth.
Not to come with me to-night, pretty pet," he answered, pinching my cheek as he spoke.
Miss Curiosity is not to know the reason," he said, smiling once more and pinchingmy cheek.
You were a troublesome little mite that day," said my father, kissing me as he spoke, and pinching my cheek.
The other rose, stood swaying with pinching fingers, tremulous lips.
This can be done at any time, even to the pinching of young, soft shoots as they appear.
This can be done by pinching carefully with ordinary wire pliers until the shell cracks without injury to the kernel, or the shell may be cut into with a file, making a very small aperture to admit moisture.
This should be watched, and the best shoot selected from each point to make a strong branch, pinching back or removing the others.
One shoot could be allowed to grow from each graft, choosing the best ones and pinching the others so that they will stop extension and hold leaves during the first season.
Because I am in danger of losing my roses," answered her aunt, pinching Bess's cheek.
I certainly do," answered her aunt, pinching the rosy cheek.
This, by great pinchingand saving, the policeman thought he would be able to do.
With finest silver ribbon wire, set on edge, less than the sixteenth of an inch high, he followed the curves of the drawing at his side, pinching the wire into tendrils and the serrated outlines of leaves with infinite patience.
He showed me feather-jewellery shops where men sat pinching from the gorgeous wings of jays, tiny squares of blue and lilac feathers, and pasting them into gold settings, so that the whole looked like Jeypore enamel of the rarest.
Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.
Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.
After pinching my ear and asking his usual questions, such as, "What does the world say?
Summer pruning or pinching off the tips of such of the younger shoots as are not required for the extension of the tree, when not carried to too great an extent, is preferable to the coarser more reckless style of pruning.
Frederick she had determined should go into the Guards; and if they made an elder son of him (and Mr. Bullock was positively ruining and pinching himself to death to buy land), how was the darling girl to be provided for?
Old women and amateurs have invaded the upper apartments, pinching the bed-curtains, poking into the feathers, shampooing the mattresses, and clapping the wardrobe drawers to and fro.
Starr shook his hand, pinching the disk between thumb and forefinger.
He was suddenly awakened by a pinching grip on his arm.
I'm sure he must be a very rude person," remarked Miss Saidie, pinching off a withered blossom and putting it in her pocket to keep from throwing it on the trim grass.
The good man Grangousier took great pleasure in their company, and commanded there should be no want nor pinching for anything.
You have enough conventionalism to-night for us both, my fine lady," twitted Stratton, pinching her arm.
All these he has: all these cost him nothing; and yet so much does he gain by pinching them in wages, that he lets all these things remain as of no use, rather than feed labourers in the house.
That same disposition which sent Lord Folkestone to visit John Knight in the dungeons at Reading keeps pinching hunger away from Coleshill.
The seeds of these Carnations should be sown in boxes in March and the young plants set out as early as possible, pinching out the center of the plant to make them branch freely.
All of the kinds may be taken up and potted in the fall, cutting the plant well back, and a profusion of bloom may be obtained through the winter months if attention is given to pinching off the seed pods.
A stately, though very formal and stiff, effect may be had by planting a row of Balsams in the rear of a low border, pinching off all the side shoots as they start and growing the plant to a single stem.
The lady of Ystrad Feen, still sitting on his heart like a night-mare, and pinching it with pain rendered him, however amusing to others, miserable enough within himself.
