Pinching

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pinch

(a.) Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony.

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• The brooding Lammle, with certain white dints coming and going in his palpitating nose, looked as if some tormenting imp were pinching it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• A long shot, Watson; a very long shot, said he, pinching my arm. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• He asks Lydgate all sorts of questions and then screws up his face while he hears the answers, as if they were pinching his toes. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I see men here going about in the streets who look ground down by some pinching sorrow or care--who are not only sufferers but haters. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• And soon afterwards, on the second boy's violently pinching one of the same lady's fingers, she fondly observed, How playful William is! 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• I repeated, pinching her cheek. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I see something of that in Mr. Tyke at the Hospital: a good deal of his doctrine is a sort of pinching hard to make people uncomfortably aware of him. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Fledgeby, watching him with a twitch in his mean face which did duty there for a smile, looked very like the tormentor who was pinching. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• What torments they are, yet we can't do without them, he said, pinching her cheeks good-humoredly. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It was not big nor red, like poor 'Petrea's', it was only rather flat, and all the pinching in the world could not give it an aristocratic point. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I dare say not, said-Dorothea, pinching her sister's chin. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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