cinchers

Example Sentences

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Here, to Wilson and his fellow flinchers, is what solidarity meant while they were in office.

From The Guardian • Sep. 9, 2014

Habitual flinchers are booted out of the fraternity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those we were now dealing with were no flinchers; but, on the contrary, I never saw more steadiness or more bravery exhibited by any set of men in my life.

From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by Shipp, John

An awful warning to all "flinchers" occurred shortly before Mr. Hunt's arrival.

From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington

When I first communicated this intelligence to the officer on duty, he politely said it was only fancy—they were no flinchers.

From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by Shipp, John