Pinching

Examples

• The brooding Lammle, with certain white dints coming and going in his palpitating nose, looked as if some tormenting imp were pinching it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A long shot, Watson; a very long shot, said he, pinching my arm. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He asks Lydgate all sorts of questions and then screws up his face while he hears the answers, as if they were pinching his toes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I see men here going about in the streets who look ground down by some pinching sorrow or care--who are not only sufferers but haters. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• And soon afterwards, on the second boy's violently pinching one of the same lady's fingers, she fondly observed, How playful William is! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I repeated, pinching her cheek. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I see something of that in Mr. Tyke at the Hospital: a good deal of his doctrine is a sort of pinching hard to make people uncomfortably aware of him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Fledgeby, watching him with a twitch in his mean face which did duty there for a smile, looked very like the tormentor who was pinching. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• What torments they are, yet we can't do without them, he said, pinching her cheeks good-humoredly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It was not big nor red, like poor 'Petrea's', it was only rather flat, and all the pinching in the world could not give it an aristocratic point. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I dare say not, said-Dorothea, pinching her sister's chin. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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