abstraction, bleak, cold as charity, economy of means, glacial, illiberal, niggardly, pilfering, sharp, stealing, thieving
Last update: June 30, 2015
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A shoot d, the growth of which is favoured by destroying the useless spray e above the blossoms, and pinching off the points of those which are necessary to perfect the fruit. [Please select]
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"Faith, I'm pinching a German gentleman we've been watching these three months and more."' [Please select]
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"Then," she said, her fine-cut nostril pinching itself with her breath, as she pointed down the path before her--"_go_." [Please select]
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I starved--and bought books,')--and he seemed unable to shake off the pinching necessity of years.' [Please select]
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_--"To practise the most pinching parsimony, grudging even the scraps and orts, or remnants of food given to the cat." [Please select]
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"Then write it, Simon," he answered, pinching my ear, "for my understanding." [Please select]
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"Ay, with your utmost eloquence," answered the King, laughing still and pinching his dog's ears. [Please select]
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