"Clinch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of adhesion or tenacity, as in cleave, clay, cling, climb, clamber, clammy, clasp, to clasp, to clip, to clinch, cloak, clog, close, to close, a clod, a clot, as a clot of blood, clouted cream, a clutter, ...
— A Grammar of the English Tongue • Samuel Johnson
... and referee to make them break away when they clinch." When she explained that Pleasant scratched ...
— In Happy Valley • John Fox
... and hit. Don't butt nor trip. Don't clinch. Don't use knee, elbow, nor shoulder. When I call 'Break away,' break without hitting. If you do any of these things you will be jolly well disqualified. Fight fair and God have mercy on your souls." To Dam it seemed ...
— Snake and Sword - A Novel • Percival Christopher Wren
... and fearing accidental defeat, forgot caution and tried to rush in for a clinch. But this was the kind of attack that Prescott ...
— The High School Boys' Training Hike • H. Irving Hancock
... now that the nail was driven home, he would clinch it on the other side and make it stay forever. He moved a reconsideration of the vote by which the bill had passed. The motion was lost, of course, and the great Industrial University act was an accomplished fact as far as it was in the power of the House of Representatives ...
— The Gilded Age, Part 5. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner
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