It was -- _The kinchin will bite the bubble_ -- I pondered, and fifty times questioned -- 'Who is _the kinchin_? ❋ Thomas Holcroft (1777)
Nein, nein; the kinchin got about the old mans heart, and he gave him his own name, and bred him up in the office, and then sent him to IndiaI believe he would have packed him back here, but his nephew told him it would do up the free trade for many a day, if the youngster got back to Scotland. ❋ Unknown (1917)
Not sheshe wont startshe swore by the salmon, 1if we did the kinchin no harm, she would never tell how the gauger got it. ❋ Unknown (1917)
"That's the kinchin as was to try the dub for us, ain't it?" muttered ❋ William Harrison Ainsworth (1843)
Claypole, bespeaking his good lady's attention, proceeded to enlighten her relative to the arrangement he had made, with all that haughtiness and air of superiority, becoming, not only a member of the sterner sex, but a gentleman who appreciated the dignity of a special appointment on the kinchin lay, in London and its vicinity. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
Noah Claypole, bespeaking his good lady's attention, proceeded to enlighten her relative to the arrangement he had made, with all that haughtiness and air of superiority, becoming, not only a member of the sterner sex, but a gentleman who appreciated the dignity of a special appointment on the kinchin lay, in London and its vicinity. ❋ Unknown (1838)
'Not she! she won't start; she swore by the salmon, [Footnote: The great and invoidable oath of the strolling tribes.] if we did the kinchin no harm, she would never tell how the gauger got it. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
'Nein, nein; the kinchin got about the old man's heart, and he gave him his own name, and bred him up in the office, and then sent him to India; I believe he would have packed him back here, but his nephew told him it would do up the free trade for many a day if the youngster got back to Scotland.' ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
'Nein, nein; the kinchin got about the old man's heart, and he gave him his own name, and bred him up in the office, and then sent him to India; ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
Any fool can a put down his five nothings; but a's a clever kinchin an a can place a so much as a I afore 'em. ❋ Thomas Holcroft (1777)
Claypole, bespeaking his good lady’s attention, proceeded to enlighten her relative to the arrangement he had made, with all that haughtiness and air of superiority, becoming, not only a member of the sterner sex, but a gentleman who appreciated the dignity of a special appointment on the kinchin lay, in London and its vicinity. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Me let him escape! the bastard kinchin should have walked the plank ere I troubled myself about him. ' ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
'Tip me the clank, like a dimber mort as you are; trim a ken for the gentry cove; he is no lanspresado, or I am a kinchin.' [ ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)
"Look you, my kinchin cove," said she, -- and in order to give peculiar dignity to her aspect, she put on while she spoke a huge pair of tin spectacles, -- "if so be as how you goes for to think as how I shall go for to supply your wicious necessities, you will find yourself planted in ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
"Look you, my kinchin cove," said she, -- and in order to give peculiar dignity to her aspect, she put on while she spoke a huge pair of tin spectacles, -- "if so be as how you goes for to think as how I shall go for to supply your wicious necessities, you will find yourself planted in Queer Street. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
We were [strolling] along and saw a Sam [Kinching] (Leafy [look-alike]) ❋ TheMagicPosterOfStJ's (2016)
