Thesaurus / pinfold
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How to use pinfold in a sentence
Would you have Providence to shoot you here sitting, like so many hares hunted into a pinfold?
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE GERMAN (VOL 3 OF 3)THOMAS CARLYLEWhy, they must have been fairly starved on purpose; nay, they must have been in the pinfold all the time he had been laid up.
STORIES OF COMEDYVARIOUSPinder, the man in charge of the pound or pinfold, was the name of a famous wicket-keeper of the last century.
THE ROMANCE OF WORDS (4TH ED.)ERNEST WEEKLEYLike sheep hounded into their pinfold; bleating for mercy, where is no mercy, but only a whetted knife?
THOMAS CARLYLEHECTOR CARSEWELL MACPHERSONHe was a servant of corruption, holding a candle to disorderly walkers and happy sinners on their way into the devil's pinfold.
THE MANXMANHALL CAINEPinfold Street takes its name from the "pound" or "pinfold" that existed there prior to 1752.
SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELLWho is not sick of our long confinement in that pinfold there?
STORIES FROM THE ILIADH. L. HAVELLSurgeon Pinfold was prescribing for a row of sick people, seated before him on a bench.
THE FALLEN LEAVESWILKIE COLLINSAmelius went back to the cottage, to see if Toff had returned, in his absence, before he paid his daily visit to Surgeon Pinfold.
THE FALLEN LEAVESWILKIE COLLINSPinfold is a pound for cattle; but no place of the name of Lipsbury is known.
THE SHAKESPEARE-EXPOSITOR: AN AID TO THE PERFECT UNDERSTANDING OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYSTHOMAS KEIGHTLEYWORDS RELATED TO PINFOLD
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