pinfold
Example Sentences
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Why, they must have been fairly starved on purpose; nay, they must have been in the pinfold all the time he had been laid up.
From Stories of Comedy by Johnson, Rossiter
It meant no more than inconveniently crowded; thus Milton: “Confined and pestered in this pinfold here”.
From English Past and Present by Palmer, Abram Smythe
The chapel has been long considered as common ground, my dear, and used for a pinfold, and what objection can we have to the man for employing what is his own to his own profit?
From My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Scott, Walter, Sir
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
I have seen, on a mountain near Callendar, a sort of pinfold, composed of immense rocks, piled upon each other, which, I was told, was anciently constructed for the above-mentioned purpose.
From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Scott, Walter, Sir
