pinfold
Example Sentences
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Hatted Herault leads his distressed flock, through their pinfold of a Tuileries again; across the Garden, to the Gate on the opposite side.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
It meant no more than inconveniently crowded; thus Milton: “Confined and pestered in this pinfold here”.
From English Past and Present by Abram Smythe Palmer
His close-shaven crown, surrounded by a circle of stiff curled black hair, had something the appearance of a parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge.
From Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Oaths were not purpos'd, more than law, To keep the good and just in awe, But to confine the bad and sinful, Like moral cattle, in a pinfold.
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
They hunted, an' they hollo'd, an' the next thing they did find Was a bull-calf in a pinfold, an' that too they left behind.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 September 23, 1893 by Various
