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Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… agreed with that motion. Sir Henry Vane. The greatest pinch in this debate is, whether you will have a war or no, …
Survey of London
… few servants, but live in great comfort; with them the pinch of poverty is unknown. In the other, pretence in some …
Old and New London
… fairy dramas would be accounted insipid, without the pinch of Attic salt with which the veteran actor flavours the …
Old and New London
… Court, our readers will like to remember, that Ruth Pinch gentle, loving Ruthmet her lover, by the merest … dined; thin, fragile Wharry, who used to spitefully pinch his cat's ears when anything offended him; and Jackson, …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… the Parliament should be called, upon which they should pinch him, and make their Lordships and the Gentlemen think …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… Dutch. The United Provinces ought in any case to feel the pinch first of all at sea as in their possessions on land …