...Henderland must be well liked in the countryside, for I observed many of them to bring out their mulls and share a pinch of snuff with him...
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
...He took a pinch of snuff...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
...If he were to tell them too little they would lose interest and might very well desert him at the first pinch...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...On the way, we met several persons of both sexes with burdens on their heads, and noticed that our guide frequently accosted them with a request for a pinch of snuff...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...The Cresswells in their new wealth, the Maxwells and Tollivers in the new pinch of poverty, stretched long arms to gather in the tenants and their children...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...AfterI got it all ready prepared, the smallest pinch of it scattered over aroom, was enough to make a horse sneeze from the strength of it; butit did no good...
Henry Bibb 「Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself」
...Miller had nimble fingers, and on them sharp nails, and, with anenergetic pinch upon the bare arms of the poor girl, she would arousethe daughter of Africa from her pleasant dreams...
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States」
...I have been waiting for some of the fox trappers of the Red River Valley, says a Minnesota trapper, to write and tell us how they manage to pinch Mr...
A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding 「Fox Trapping」
...A variation of thissoldier is the third son of the peasant, who is so strongthat with a snap of his fingers he makes the bull and thebear fall dead, and then by a single pinch strips off theirskins...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...A lancet is the instrument generally used inbleeding, though a well-pointed pen knife will do at a pinch...
Ambrose Blacklock 「A Treatise on Sheep:」
...A pinch of snuff or smelling-bottle applied to the nose can do no harm...
Gordon Stables 「The Domestic Cat」
...It is not used as a regular horse fodder, but it doeswell for it on a pinch...
Joshua A. Nunn 「Notes on Stable Management in India and the Colonies」
..."Well, no woman sha'n't have my bird for her bunnet," and the boy gaveme another friendly pinch that nearly broke my bones...
Virginia Sharpe Patterson 「Dickey Downy」
...A vestige of sawdust, less than a pinch ofsnuff, represents all their work...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...This cursed ground, which no one wouldhave had at a gift to sow with a pinch of turnip-seed, is an earthlyparadise for the Bees and the Wasps...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...To killthem we were wont to pinch off the head, andwhen all the blood had exuded the flesh remainedwhite and delicate...
Anonymous 「The Confessions of a Poacher」
...It might be some animile or one of them doggy monkey things come stealing about in the night, or even one of the niggers come to see if he could pinch something good out of the stores...
George Manville Fenn 「Dead Man's Land」
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