pinching
Example Sentences
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He was a slim-Jim, sorta salla complected, jaw clean scraped, and he had on a pair of them tony pinchbug spectacles.
From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor
It was a large black beetle with formidable jaws—a "pinchbug," he called it.
From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2. by Twain, Mark
He had but one marring thought; he was willing that the dog should play with his pinchbug, but he did not think it was upright in him to carry it off.
From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2. by Twain, Mark
