"Pincher" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... three spare horses, which followed the waggon, fastened by riems or thongs of hide, the general substitute for rope in the colony. Five dogs may also be counted as forming part of the expedition, rejoicing in the names of Spout, Growl, Pincher, Fangs, and Raff. The latter belonged to Denis, who so called the animal after the name of a countryman, Paddy Rafferty, who had given it to him. The "baste," he boasted, did credit to the "ould counthry:" for although no beauty, he was the cleverest and ...
— Hendricks the Hunter - The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand • W.H.G. Kingston
... Monologues is the alluring title of a volume of sketches by Richard Turpin, shortly appearing with Pincher and Steel. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 19, 1916 • Various
... was called to supper, she was found beside Pincher's green grave, telling her "brother Zip" the story of that dog's death, and trying to impress upon his mind the importance of keeping his paws out ...
— Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple • Sophie May
... life wore off after about a year, even with side trips to resorts where the prices were sufficiently outrageous to charm Ellabelle. She'd begun right off to broaden her own horizon. After only one week in New York she put her diamond napkin pincher to doing other work, and after six months she dressed about as well as them prominent society ladies that drift round the corridors of this hotel waiting for parties that never seem on time, and looking none too austere ...
— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... see Anna, or Tom Pinfold, or old Yeo, or Pincher, or you, ever any more?" In this moment of the crumbling from under me of all my footholds I would have clung even to that ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... cook what would one not swallow? he was rather dull, perhaps, but would not such wine make any conversation pleasant? We must get some of his Burgundy at any price, the mourners cry at his club. "I got this box at old Dives's sale," Pincher says, handing it round, "one of Louis XV's mistresses—pretty thing, is it not?—sweet miniature," and they talk of the way in which young Dives is dissipating ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray |
