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"Careful, or you'll get pinched for over-speeding," cautioned Stevens. Whittington spat contemptuously. "Pinch your grandmother!" he jeered. "I've been pinched too many times to mind a little thing like that." Off darted the gray car. The three gazed after it in silence. Then Spurling spoke. "Must seem rather pleasant to have a bank-account you can't touch the bottom of, mustn't it?
From this employment she suddenly desisted, and said to Steerforth, much to my confusion: 'Who's your friend? 'Mr. Copperfield, said Steerforth; 'he wants to know you. 'Well, then, he shall! I thought he looked as if he did! returned Miss Mowcher, waddling up to me, bag in hand, and laughing on me as she came. 'Face like a peach! standing on tiptoe to pinch my cheek as I sat. 'Quite tempting!
A drizzling rain was falling, and the darkness was so great that one could not see his hand before his face. Each of us grabbed a valise except Pinch, who carried along the faro tools. The walking was so slippery that we were in the mud about every ten steps, and poor Pinch he groaned under the load that he carried.
"I've been tryin' to git a chance to put in a word with you ever sence Well, I expected you'd want to get your feelin's kind o' calloused after losin' Tobin." "There's nobody can fill his place," said the widow. "I do' know but I can fight for ye town-meetin' days, on a pinch," urged Jefferson boldly. "I never see the beat o' you men fur conceit," and Mrs. Tobin laughed.
"I do think it may prove to be a great work," she added thoughtfully, folding her hands upon her lap in unconscious sign that she had reached a conclusion a logical equilibrium. "And I want you to go with me to the readings on Thursday. Mrs. Van Horne knows your aunt, Mrs. Gouverneur, and she will be glad to see you." Phillida looked down and began to pinch the tips of her fingers again.
You can carry that motive as we all know, and as we all forget when the pinch comes into your shop, your study, your office, your mill, your kitchen, or wherever you go. 'On the bells of the horses there shall be written, Holiness to the Lord, said the prophet, and 'every bowl in Jerusalem' may be sacred as the vessels of the altar.
The other three are all honest varlets, and you can rely upon them in any pinch." "I will do my best, my lord," Guy said quietly; "and I am grateful to you indeed for the confidence that you show in me, and I shall, I hope, prove worthy of it, and of my father." The news soon spread through the castle that Dame Margaret was going to Paris.
Do not stick knife or fork into fish while it is frying. When the oil has cooled, strain it, pour it into a jar, cover it and it will be ready for use another time. It can be used again for fish only. Thoroughly mix six ounces of flour with an ounce of olive oil, the yolk of an egg, and a pinch of salt. Stir in one gill of tepid water and allow the whole to stand for half an hour in a cool place.
Macy was goin' to the city an' so she looked up the address an' made up her mind to go there to lunch, an' so she wrote the address on one side of the piece of paper as she had in her black bag an' she wrote her shoes on the other side, for she says they're a new kind of shoes as is warranted not to pinch you in the back, by every magazine an' newspaper an' you know what Mrs.
Lynette turned to the young woman in the ulster, whose face betrayed no guilty knowledge of the pinch. She was small, and pale, and gritty, and her blue eyes had red rims to them from the fatigue of the journey, or some other cause. But they were honest and clear, and not unpretty eyes, looking out from a forest of dusty yellowish fringe, deplorably out of curl.
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