10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PINCHFIST»
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Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life
Old Pinchfist, — who has spent threescore years of his threescore-and-ten, in the
accumulation of wealth, till the mass has become so large that he reckons its
dimensions as geographers do the surface of the globe, by degrees of latitude
and ...
Joseph Tinker Buckingham, 1852
three of them I If only they come through alive! All right, so they freeze off a finger
or two-the thing is to come through alive. And then all that petty bickering-the bos'
n is a pinchfist, but what about me? Why didn't I look and see what the ...
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the ...
v. a. K: n. to squeeze with the fingers, fret, straiten, he frugal— s. a painful
squeeze, difficulty Pinchbeclr, plnsh'bék. s. a compound metal resembling gold
Pinchfist, pinsh'fist. s. a miser Pincushion, pln'kush-i'in. s.'a small stuff. ed bag to
stick ...
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A Dictionary in English and Bengalee; Translated from Todd's ...
C7IT'{'I3TI I Pinchfist 31 Pinchpenny, n. s. 3f5i'q, (7TTSI', কৃপণ | Pincushion, n. s.
অক্ষুল*পি'ন হ্ষ্টজিয়া রট্রিণি[বার নিমিপ্তত্ত ণশম বা তূসিদ্বারা নির্মিত বালিশ বা
গদি ৷ Pindarick. 1»- s. বর্ণরডাযিশ্বে'য৪ পিপ্তারনামক কবির নকল | Pindarick, a.
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The Five Bells and Bladebone
... and avery generous oneat that. Lady Summerston could hardly be calleda
pinchfist. But ifthe moneyisn't one's own ...”She shruggedand accepted a light for
another cigarette, exhalinga stream ofsmoke,flawless asa ribbon. “The last time I
...
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The New Handbook of Children's Rights: Comparative Policy ...
Predictably, Gradgrind employers and pinchfist members of the "superior"
classes objected, resenting the loss of cheap, malleable labour and the "tax
burden". However the widespread opposition amongst radicals and educated
members of ...
7
Creating Characters: A Writer's Reference to the Personality ...
... 157, 166 oracular 53 pedantic 43, 66 pighead 161 oratorical 46 peddler 176
pigheaded 6, 161 orderly 76, 171 pedestrian 9, 81 pinchfist 166 ordinary 9, 81,
154, 170 peevish 73 pipedreamer 157 organized 76 penitent 31. 60, 179 pirate
185 ...
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Vollständiges Wörterbuch Der Englischen Sprache Für Die ...
... n Name sor-inarshy lrou- Ore found in illshapssed Piecen Pfefinigfuchserpber;
(papul.) a PinchPenny, a Penny-Father, a PinchFist; also a Petty Agent. *
Pfcnniafive- - - - are teem) Preqdftnnlggttetchmas, the Penny-Weight fpfetchhfltte,
dle,
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the ...
... bear hard upon, to be puzzling ; to spare, to be frugil. PINCH, pïnsh, s. A painful
squeeze with the finders ; « innll quantity of snuff contained between the finger
and thumb ; oppression, distress inflicted ; difficult v, time of distress. PINCHFIST
...
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Misanthropology: A Florilegium of Bahumbuggery
... they go down great with margaritas. Say, on one of your jaunts to Treasure
Island to bank your loot, you might want to set aside a modest coffer of doubloons
for your selfless mentor who made it all possible. Don't be a pinchfist Tomkins.
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PINCHFIST»
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A wiser miser
Now, again under Hill's directorship, the actor is turning his hand to Dickens's great pinchfist, Scrooge. When I meet him in the foyer of the ... «Herald Scotland, Nov 14»
