| 单词 | mincing |
| 例句 | Walking in a tokar demanded small, mincing steps and exquisite balance, lest one tread upon those heavy trailing fringes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” I tell him, without mincing words, “I was cheeking my meds.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “We want no songs about the gallant exile,” the eunuch had tittered, in that mincing voice of his. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He moved on stiff legs with little delicate mincing steps to investigate the newcomer and in the manner of dogs and people did not look directly at the object of his interest. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a pleasant enough woman, with her steps made mincing by age and her little hands like gentle claws that liked to touch young skin. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Katherine gives the man a small smile and takes a mincing step back, putting a few additional inches between her and the holy man. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z "Treason is vile enough," she declared furiously. "but this is barefaced naked villainy, and I do not need that mincing eunuch to tell me what must be done with villains." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Their gallants— young squires in the height of fashion, many of them wearing Mordred’s badge as Thrashers—came mincing in with their long-toed shoes, in which it was impossible to walk upstairs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Because often old men’s voices grow high and reedy and they take on a mincing walk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z For hours one of us hauled while the other guided, mincing along like a cat on eggshells, sounding every step in advance with the stick. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Boys always forget other people’s birthdays. “You have committed the following crimes,” he continued: “having a dog with an unauthorized alarm, sowing confusion, upsetting the applecart, wreaking havoc, and mincing words.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z He was mincing the floor with his feet. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s not mincing words any more than I am—and clearly, he’s not negotiating. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr.Jones’s trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z When I walk in, she’s mincing Dad into tiny pieces about putting a knife in the wrong drawer. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z A column of shining black ants walked across a windowsill, their bottoms tilted upwards, like a line of mincing chorus girls in a Busby Berkeley musical. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Harley took mincing steps and dropped the mirror into Helen’s purse. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I can see them out there now mincing around like they’ve got icicles stuck up their butts. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know you’re good with a dagger, but...how are your mincing skills?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Dee-lighted!” said the Lion in rather a mincing voice, and he offered her his arm. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z She was not like the mincing daughters of Zion! Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z It doesn't matter if you're slicing, dicing, or mincing, it all hurts. The unfailing way to make any onion last forever 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z His Dee, who trades in his hermit guise for the equally startling mustache and goatee worthy of a mincing courtier, is the one person here who may earn the designation of hero. 'Detective Dee': A Masterpiece from a Hong Kong Cinema Swami 2011-09-01T05:10:00Z Baton in his right hand, variously slicing, slashing, flicking, flipping, mincing, he employs his left as moderator, calming, urging, silencing. The world's best orchestra 2011-02-27T00:04:15Z Their pleasures include encountering Klee’s intimate art — with its frayed, mincing lines and blushing colors — in relatively intimate surroundings, and a chance to see several rarely exhibited works. Art in Review: Paul Klee: ‘The Bauhaus Years’ 2013-06-06T18:18:58Z But it's a very sexual play – there's no point in mincing matters, really. Not so black and white: South Africa on stage 2013-07-20T23:06:08Z Brainstorm strikes the same tone as Fearce — strong, reflective — and tells his story without mincing words. Dyme Def is back in business with 'Yuk the World' 2011-12-05T17:31:58Z A Parisian mademoiselle making arch comments about the models, who did their mincing runway walk and then paused and posed in a mock photo studio, made an overwrought and long-drawn-out show. Fashion Review: Phoebe Philo at Celine and Haider Ackermann on Paris Catwalks 2011-10-02T18:48:42Z I watch one woman, tall and graceful, perfectly proportioned in her tank, get in and demonstrate a gruesomely mincing, hesitant freestyle. I didn’t make the Olympics. Now what? 2012-07-11T00:01:00Z The mincing effeminate is a Galifianakis staple; he played the same character in Due Date, but without the civic pride that fuels Marty. Funny and Offensive? The Campaign Must be a Will Ferrell Movie 2012-08-09T12:00:49Z Many of the columns were lovely, elevated by gorgeous flower tones, but I hate to see women take mincing steps to get where they’re going. A Vision in Melancholy 2011-07-06T22:31:19Z He used potatoes in a variety of ways, including mincing them as fine as rice, then cooking them like a risotto. Michel Richard, innovative chef who made D.C. a capital of dining, dies at 68 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z She not only mined a title — the Divine Miss M — but also mastered a signature geisha-like walk of tiny, mincing steps. A divine showing of divas put the ‘broad’ in Broadway 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Fifty years later she was still writing criticism for The Wall Street Journal and, as ever, mincing no words. ArtsBeat: Remembering Ada Louise Huxtable 2013-06-05T12:43:23Z He got in people’s faces, mincing and skittering around the three sets of audience bleachers. Dance Review: An Otherworldly Wildness This Way Comes 2011-01-30T22:12:14Z Eventually more dancers join in; as they take small, mincing steps in unison — spreading out and converging back together — a lyric pokes through the melody: “You are one of those creatures.” Review: Exposing the Heart in a Brutal Dance of Love 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z "I would not want your skin to burn," he sings, less mincing than menacing, blowtorch in hand. New band of the day ? No 811: Diamond Rings 2010-06-18T16:16:00Z Behind him were more than a dozen men furiously mincing large bunches of vegetables and cilantro in preparation for the day. Pursuits: A Culinary Pilgrimage to Punjab 2014-03-18T20:25:02Z Think of Divine mincing through Baltimore in “Pink Flamingos,” gleefully indifferent to the stares of passersby: Waters’s work, however absurd and disgusting, celebrates this indifference and in so doing aims to expand tolerance. Review | John Waters wants to wrap you in his filthy embrace 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z However, your attempts to say this “in a nice way” suggest you’ve undermined your goal of communication by mincing around the truth. Carolyn Hax: Skipping the destination wedding when it’s a world away 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Without mincing words, these artworks are heirlooms of the great people of the Benin Kingdom and Nigeria generally. ArtsBeat: Nigeria Wants Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to Return Trove of Benin Artifacts 2012-07-23T19:00:42Z He taps all through the show, mincing the floor with small and quick steps to punctuate his stories, and in several stand-alone dance numbers. Maurice Hines Opens His Heart in ‘Tappin’ Thru Life’ 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Baxter would be mincing around in a tutu, and my dad would say, "He fought in the far east, you know." Where does all the best comedy come from? Death and war 2012-07-06T21:30:01Z Derek Jacobi plays a mincing etiquette master hired to school the princess in the royal graces. Review: ‘Grace of Monaco,’ a Fractured Fairy Tale on Lifetime 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z When I did get home, I'd race into the kitchen, but then start carefully delving into the recipe as listed: mincing the shallots and onions, pureeing the roasted peppers, grating the Parm. Beyond bolognese: A primer to 6 delectable, lesser-known pasta sauces that deserve some love 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Here society swirls everywhere in quiet, mincing steps. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Dances Balanchine and Wheeldon - Review 2011-09-25T22:17:14Z Without mincing words, the fact is that school is boring. Perspective | An 8-year-old who’s being ‘silly’ in school? Not an emergency. 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z In the penultimate episode of the last series of Broadchurch, David Tennant’s Hardy finally faces the schoolboys who have been making his daughter’s life miserable – and he’s not mincing his words. Broadchurch is a place overrun with casual misogyny – just like real life 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z So I use it for fine work like dicing an onion, but save my Western knife for heavier work, like mincing garlic or chopping parsely. These Are the Only Kitchen Tools You Need 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Let the infidels in the tabloids mock Liberace for his mincing ways, his ostrich-feather frocks, his retinue of winsome piano prodigies or “protégés.” Soderbergh’s Behind the Candelabra: Michael Douglas IS Liberace 2013-05-21T18:32:58Z "Basic knife cuts, like the slicing, dicing, mincing, are really great to be armed with in the kitchen." The best kitchen wisdom from our favorite cookbook authors 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z Tosh never made things easy for himself, relentlessly challenging those in power and not mincing his words on any topics. Arise Black Man: the Peter Tosh Story ? review 2010-11-24T07:59:00Z This takes the work out of ricing a head of cauliflower, for instance, and makes mincing garlic and ginger less of a chore. How a $20 food processor made me a better weeknight cook 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Opening night attracted crowds of leaflet-bearing Christian and Jewish protesters, who regarded what The New York Times writer Guy Flatley called “the strutting, mincing, twitching, grinding, souped‐up ‘Superstar’” as theatrical sacrilege. ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ at 50: What Was the Buzz? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Mr. McCraven recorded the gig to a four-track, then set about mincing and splicing and augmenting the sounds, until he had this. The Best Albums of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z It was red reds, blue blues and there was no mincing it. As Gronk's set designs go on view at CAFAM, the artist talks opera, painting and B-movie crab monsters 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z His movements are a bizarre pantomime of limp-wristed mincing and skipping, like a 12-year-old schoolboy's notion of how a gay man might conduct himself. Alexis Petridis on MTV's wild years 2012-10-07T19:31:01Z “They were swishy — not mincing, but like a sword slicing air.” In ‘Gay Bar,’ Time-Hopping Snapshots of Queer Nightlife 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z "Gross commercialisation," was how one sage – not mincing his words – described the Maharishi's methods. From the Observer archive, 24 February 1968: the Beatles check into an ashram 2013-02-24T00:05:26Z Mr. Cassella indeed played the peacock, strutting, mincing, posing and slapping the women, sometimes hard, when the mood struck him. Dance Review: Recalling a Collector of Bold Art and Life 2010-10-21T22:12:00Z But some, like Al-Halabi, a timeless restaurant in Antelias, a northern suburb of Beirut, manage to achieve the same smooth texture despite mincing the meat in a grinder. Must-Eat Dishes, From Myanmar to Mexico City 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z “Those are your orders,” Claudia said, not mincing any words at that point. 'The Americans' Recap: Season 2 Ends With an Answer (Jared) and a Question (Paige) 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z Painting didn’t pay the bills, and so she ran a boardinghouse where her tenants ranged from “inanimate, mincing ninnies” to “door slammers.” Vancouver Island, Through an Artist’s Eyes 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Don’t let your love be known, don’t let your desires be known to anyone … But if you’re going to be openly gay, you’re going to have to be a mincing, obnoxious queen.’ Alexis Arquette obituary 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Mr. McKellen and Mr. Jacobi acknowledged that they have been criticized for their involvement in “Vicious,” which some reviewers have said offers a stereotypical depiction of a mincing, over-the-top gay couple. Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi, in a Gay Pride March Debut 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z There’s a sycophantic assistant who’s a mincing cliché, and the white owner of a Japanese restaurant who speaks in broken English. ‘Licorice Pizza’ Review: California Dreaming and Scheming 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z The dancers romp through this evocative, shifting space, often linking hands, like children, while waltzing one another about and running in myriad ways, their steps now mincing, now muscular. Dance Review: Playing Like Children, but Much Is at Stake 2011-06-10T23:56:26Z This is also when you'd want to work on any other prep work, such as mincing garlic, slicing shallots to fry later, toasting nuts in the oven or poaching chicken to later pull. Get cozy with homemade pureed soups that are shockingly simple to make 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z In line for a burrito, a generously proportioned man mentioned that I had ‘‘some stones’’ to be mincing around a public place dressed this way. T Magazine: A Leg Man 2011-03-10T16:00:01Z As a kitchen neophyte, I diligently practiced mincing garlic and shallots and experimented with the timing of the dish. Cheesy chicken parmesan meets creamy red pepper pasta for the ultimate Italian mash-up 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z He added: “There’s a lot of mincing, campy straight guys that I know.” ‘Vicious’ on PBS Follows Two Gay Characters 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z They’re mostly physical: mincing down a school hallway in formfitting, scarlet couture under a parka; uttering the word “Peoria” then appearing there, as if the mother ship abandoned her. ‘Marry Me’ Review: Putting ‘I Do’ on the To-Do List 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z After the two leaders met there was no mincing of words. How India-Canada ties descended into a public feud 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z What a sight it must have been, the trainer and I mincing in unison around the centre's car park with me exclaiming: "Who's a good boy?" My 40 years of guide dogs and good friends 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z Some striking writers expressed their thoughts without mincing words: Writers’ strike: Here are some of the cleverest signs from the WGA picket lines 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z Woodrow Wilson, Virginian though he was, has a fast, mincing way of talking; Warren G. Harding, extolling “Americanism,” speaks at a slow tread; and Calvin Coolidge preaches frugality in a peeved, high-pitched Yankee creak. Perspective | Carter, Bernie, Reagan: Who is the best audiobook narrator? 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z There were no mincing words and no equivocation over Ethics Committee hearings. Kevin McCarthy "stands by" George Santos: Now the MAGA caucus owns his lies 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Bass was straightforward, not mincing words or using political euphemisms to explain exactly what she as mayor plans to do for Black Angelenos specifically. Column: Mayor Karen Bass wants Angelenos to 'believe again.' Black women already do 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z The aftermath of the 2020 U.S. presidential race offered a memorable example of mincing an oath, even though it wasn’t one the authors specifically examined. The Linguistics of Swearing Explain Why We Substitute Darn for Damn 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z "Are you men or not? Do you have any balls or not? Why are you still mincing your words lest something bad happens? You are still defending Lapin in your cowardly posts," Ms Kashevarova said. Ukraine war: Lyman retreat sparks rare criticism of Russian top brass 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Chinese officials aren’t mincing words, sending a message that a visit by Pelosi would be viewed as a change in U.S. policy and treated as a provocation. Biden, Xi to hold talks amid new tensions over Taiwan 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z “I think we need to quit mincing words and just talk about truths,” he said, “and what it was going to be was an armed revolution.” Perspective | A regular guy believed the lie, joined the riot, apologized. Now what? 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z “If you saw him on TV, he’s just bold-faced saying, without couching or mincing his words, what he stands for.” Biden’s leadership of Democrats faces test in next primaries 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z House Republican Whip Steve Scalise is not mincing words when it comes to the perils of the porous U.S. border with Mexico. True perils of a porous border 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z I flashed back to Marilyn Monroe on another May night in Gotham, doing similar mincing steps in a similar shimmering dress she was sewn into, when she suspired “Happy Birthday” to J.F.K. Opinion | Marilyn Monroe v. Samuel Alito 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z The included splash guard also doubles as a lid, so they can easily store their concoction once they've finished mincing. The Verge’s 2022 Graduation Gift Guide 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z And rather than mincing all of those cloves, I pull out my trusty garlic press. Skillet chicken and rice goes bold with a whole head of garlic 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The conservative think tank is not mincing words here. Heritage Foundation gets fierce in new priorities list 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z The Seattle Aquarium is not mincing words about a new fish exhibit featuring eight Pacific spiny lumpsuckers. Seattle Aquarium debuts new ‘swimming golf balls’ fish exhibit 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z And she isn’t mincing words or playing nice, not any more. Opinion | Justice Sotomayor drops the S-bomb 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z The rental agent listened to my concerns and matched me with the Harley Heritage Softail, a thinking man’s bagger with leather panniers, weighing in at a mincing and elegant 700 pounds. I Fell in Love With Motorcycles. But Could I Ever Love Sturgis? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z At the Carlyle hotel, a pair of Upper East Side doyennes are discussing their country homes between mincing bites of their $30 salads. On 'Succession,' Gerri calls the shots. J. Smith-Cameron knows the feeling 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z “The owners of the house, without mincing words, just said they needed us to move out as quickly as possible,” said dance teacher Yesid Puche. Influx of Haitian migrants pushing locals out of housing in Colombia beach town 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z “There’s just no mincing words about it,” she said. Democrats promised to slash drug prices. Now internal clashes are standing in the way. 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z With new coronavirus cases rising by more than 1,000 each of the last five days, some Los Angeles County leaders are not mincing words about the need for people to get vaccinated. No time or 'enormously selfish'? People who haven't gotten a COVID-19 shot may have many reasons 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z The “Bachelor” franchise’s first Black lead is fed up with toxic fans and the stereotype-driven reality property, and she’s not mincing words. Rachel Lindsay calls out 'Bachelor Klan,' says franchise tried to make her a 'token' 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z “Publicly, in his press conference, he not only spokes out about that quite directly, mincing no words, but he also spoke about American values, something the last president never talked about.” Sullivan says Biden ‘pulled no punches’ in meeting with Putin over Russian cyber conflict 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z Blinken’s word “quash” to describe what Beijing is doing — contrary to treaty obligations — to Hong Kong’s democracy is commendably without mincing nuance. Opinion | Biden’s Trumanesque foreign policy 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z “I’m mincing garlic,” Legend replied coolly while wearing a Versace robe. Where was John Legend when he won a Grammy? Busy in the kitchen with Chrissy Teigen 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z While the Chiefs wisely rested Patrick Mahomes with nothing to play for, Rodgers clinched the NFC’s top seed for the Green Bay Packers by mincing the Chicago Bears. What to know from NFL Week 17: The Browns make the playoffs, and Aaron Rodgers makes his MVP case 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z A few weeks of somewhat less mincing coverage of Trump means nothing. Some in media are supposedly "going hard" on Trump — but it's too little and too damn late 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z My chef’s knife rocks back and forth on the cutting board, mincing the vivid green spice and filling the house with a scent like sunlight. Perspective | As a homeless teen, I foraged for wild food to survive. The lessons still shape my cooking. 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z If you incorporate a lot of fresh garlic, ginger, or turmeric into recipes or drinks, it makes short work out of what's otherwise a tedious mincing job on the cutting board. The Verge Holiday Gift Guide 2020 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z In it, she plays Oraetta Mayflower, a nurse with a polite manner, a mincing gait and a habit of murdering her patients. Early on, critics dismissed her. Now Jessie Buckley is having the last laugh 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z The cleanup was an apt backdrop for Macron’s street walk, but he had come to talk solutions of another kind, and he wasn’t mincing his words. 'Moment of reckoning': angry Lebanese vow not to let leaders off the hook 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z In the 1974 TV documentary All That Glitters, Priest spots the camera as he exits a limousine and suddenly starts mincing, one hand on hip, wrists limp. Steve Priest: the outrageous Sweet bassist who presaged heavy metal 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z No mincing of words, no rhetorical “fairness” bones being thrown to the flat-earthers in this document. Editorial Roundup: Georgia 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Hollywood is a political place, and many of its starry inhabitants aren't known for mincing their words. The stars who have criticized Trump for coronavirus response 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Babe Ruth and his mincing home run trot saved baseball after the Black Sox scandal. David Beckham's signing with the Galaxy made lasting impact on MLS 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Without mincing words, Hubbard said she was “terrified” that the controversy surrounding the movie would take away from the women who “are bearing their souls about they got their lives back as survivors.” Russell Simmons assault doc stuns at Sundance, but survivors brace for 'fight' ahead 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z "So it's quite a nice thing that it's sort of in recognition of what I've been mincing about doing." Working with The Rock was 'utterly bizarre' 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z I recommend one little one, for things like mincing garlic or making pesto, and one large, for everything else. 9 essential gadgets worth the real estate in your kitchen 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z One wag on social media joked the plug holes provided a direct route to Australia while another person said they were told as a child there was a giant mincing machine at the bottom. Why does Ladybower Reservoir have plug holes? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z As you get more comfortable in the kitchen, you will learn to multi-task, so you are mincing fresh herbs while the chopped onions are browning. Stop fiddling with the food! And other mistakes cooks make 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The artist’s virile exemplars helped liberate gay men from society’s cheap assignations — as mentally disturbed fops mincing out roles as faux women. An L.A. home where homoerotic artist Tom of Finland lived is a shrine to his legacy 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z “Eddie got to where he is today by not mincing his words, and people loved him for it,” she said. Constance Wu’s Hollywood Destiny 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Professor,’ he said without mincing a word, ‘you just do not understand. I had the security of this country in my hands.’ From mind control to murder? How a deadly fall revealed the CIA’s darkest secrets 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The infused cells were, in fact, destroying the cancer, slicing apart its membranes, mincing its innards. The Promise and Price of Cellular Therapies 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Fraser wins handily, as an eccentric sanitarium director who unaccountably speaks with a mincing lisp. Reviews: Scott Adkins’ career-best ‘Avengement’; ‘The Poison Rose’ and more 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Still, he is not mincing his words, calling Iran “hostile” and the “No. 1 provocateur of terror.” Trump says Iran provocations will be met with ‘great force’ 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Every once in a while, use the side of the knife to smear the garlic against the cutting board, then scrape it back up and keep mincing. 6 little tricks that every cook should know 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Fertile ground for forgiveness is sown as they humbly and unequivocally acknowledge past behaviors without mincing words. Opinion | Is there life after disgrace? My ex-husband Rob Porter shows that is hard to answer. 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z He was used to discussing the human body, and the many things that could go wrong with it, without mincing words. Family Medicine 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Guardian works on his liver dish, mincing pre-marinated lumps alongside bell peppers, purple onions and shredded carrots. Behold New Mexico’s ultimate pork fiesta: 43 pigs, 300 gallons of chile and 22,000 tortillas 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z None of them — picking and chopping parsley, peeling and mincing garlic, browning pans of ground meat — were particularly difficult. The Key to This Creamy, Thick Pesto? A Mortar and Pestle 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z So OK, nobody ever accused Gronk of penning the theory of relativity nor the SI Swimsuit social team of being anything other than total mincing creeps , but this is some truly special #content right here. Gronk excited that Gronk girlfriend is officially an SI Swimsuit model now Gronk - Golf Digest 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z And when another round is needed, it’s usually best to say so clearly, without mincing words. What I Learned From Having Steve Jobs Swear At Me 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z She called accusations against Kavanaugh “disturbing” and said he “refuted them without mincing any words.” Sen. Hyde-Smith: Accusations against Kavanaugh ‘unproven’ 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Back then, they were mincing about in his’n’hers leatherwear, swapping underwear, getting married on golden thrones and basically behaving with all the exuberance of lottery winners. The 1990s are back! But they’re much more depressing this time around | Joe Stone 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z “It didn’t seem to me like he was mincing words or engaging in a hedging language,” Ms. McMeans said. Pope Francis Condemns ‘Atrocities’ of Church Sex Abuse and Cover-Up 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z His voice took on the mincing drone he used for reciting headlines on the air. “Ways and Means” 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z That scientists are increasingly comfortable with using language like this — not mincing words anymore — is nothing if not hopeful. Terrified by “hothouse Earth”? Don’t despair — do something 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Brandel Chamblee's reputation of not mincing words on TV carried over to his return to competitive golf at last month's Senior Open Championship. Brandel Chamblee says Tiger Woods "got the least out of his talent of any player in history" - Golf Digest 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Overall, the rest of the questions on the president’s new survey are not mincing words either. Inside the Beltway: Do you ‘publicly admit’ support for Trump? 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Uganda’s president praises Trump: Uganda’s longtime president says that he loves President Trump and that the U.S. leader should be praised for not mincing words. World Digest: Jan. 23, 2018 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Women who are tired of mincing uncomfortably through such a soiree—or even a more basic bash—might welcome the evening wear that’s surfaced this season, inspired by high-performance clothes. The Case for Athletic-Inspired Evening Wear 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Some analysts said it sounded as if the foreign minister was mincing words on the issue. Protesters burn Trump photos in Pakistan as anger grows over Washington’s halt of financial aid 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z And the late-night TV host is not mincing words on the matter. Seth Meyers eviscerates Trump's response to Puerto Rico's crisis 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Gardner was on national television over the weekend blasting President Donald Trump for mincing words about racial violence in Virginia. Colorado GOP senator talks to voters about health care 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Now, Seattle City Council wants to pass an illegal income tax, mincing no words in a May Day resolution that it intends to adopt a citywide income tax by midsummer. Hate to break it to you, Seattle: Your proposed income tax is illegal 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Cooperman, 74, declined to comment on the settlement — a bit unusual for man known for not mincing words. Leon Cooperman’s Hedge Fund Settles Insider Trading Case 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Trump has made a point of declaring war on radical Islam, mincing no words in using the religious label. Trump says walls work: 'Just ask Israel' 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z El Paso County Commissioner Mark Waller, former Colorado House minority leader, is done mincing words and accepting excuses. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z But nor are they mincing words about what is at stake. As global axis of power shifts, a cold wind blows through the Baltic states 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z For many parents, talking with children about eating, weight or nutrition is like mincing through a conversational minefield. 3 Ways to Get Kids to Eat Better 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z “At least I wasn’t one of those mincing little girls; I never wanted to be that.” Classic Hollywood: Raquel Welch reflects on her life as a sex symbol and movie star 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z “Killing Reagan” star Cynthia Nixon isn’t mincing words about how the late Nancy Reagan might react to the freedom granted to the man who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan. Sarah Jessica Parker goes thrift shop in new HBO comedy 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z There is no sense in mincing words, even at the risk of sounding alarmist: Donald Trump is an existential threat to American democracy. This is how fascism takes hold: The media is turning Donald Trump into just another candidate 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Trump deals: “You do ’em one at a time, folks,” he said, mincing, holding his thumb and finger apart to show something small, deals he would crush as he had Marco Rubio. Donald Trump, American Preacher 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Kahra Buss explained they would be mincing the garlic - chopping it up into small pieces. Cooking program teaches students healthy eating 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z Sass took mincing steps around the foulness on the floor and stopped at the woman's hands. The human is late to feed the cat : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z At the Pentagon, Mr. Rumsfeld was known for not mincing words with his memos. Former Defense Secretary Marches Into New Territory: Videogames 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z The Daily Star watched Good Morning Britain and reveals he won't be following in the dance steps of EastEnders co-star Kellie Bright - because he's "too lazy" and couldn't cope with "13 weeks of mincing about". Newspaper review: Villains, real and fictional, on front pages - BBC News 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Men’s fashion, which once changed one mincing step at a time, is transforming by leaps. Fashion 2015: A little more diverse, a lot more naked. And men looked better than women. 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z The students all took part in mincing garlic, chopping onions and picking apart the rosemary they would use for seasoning. Cooking program teaches students healthy eating 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z There is comfort in the familiar rituals — chopping tomatoes, mincing garlic, pinching pastry. Fleeing Syria: An Unwelcoming World 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Bill Gurley, a venture capitalist at Benchmark, fired off a series of tweets last week about the market stumbles, mincing no words. Daily Report: Potential Unicorns, Meet a Rough Market 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z However, Australia are now mincing along merrily at 61/0, so we have effectively forfeited 152 runs. Ashes 2015: England v Australia, fourth Test, day two – as it happened 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Sacca is known for not mincing words on stage at conferences, on Twitter and on his blog. Meet 'Shark Tank's' Newest Sharks 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z But the filings in the case show neither side mincing words. Judge to decide on Menendez bid to move trial to Washington 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Using a garlic press is even better than mincing, as it releases more of the compounds that combine to create allicin. 10 Surprising Ways You're Making Vegetables Less Nutritious 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z A day after the shooting outside the Texas event, Ms. Geller was not mincing words. Pamela Geller, Organizer of Muhammad Cartoon Contest, Hails Results 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z However, Australia are now mincing along merrily at 61/0, so we have effectively forfeited 152 runs. Ashes 2015: England v Australia, fourth Test, day two – as it happened 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z “Without mincing words or really embellishing anything … I consider Mike Alsbury the renaissance man,” said Brian Binnie, another test pilot who worked at Scaled Composites for 14 years before leaving the company in February. Spaceship co-pilot was experienced test pilot 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z Jennifer Lawrence is speaking up in Vanity Fair about the theft of her private photos this summer and isn’t mincing words. The October 11 'MHP' Syllabus 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z A vortex of time could be lost counting how many wrong tones and semi-excuses are crammed into that mincing sentence. Racism, sexism and appalling apologies – the week that shamed football 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z So Bell spent the spring focusing on his footwork to avoid the mincing steps that he’s certain cost him valuable yardage a year ago. Bell looking for more decisive, productive season 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Cruz, not known for mincing words, shot back on social media several times Tuesday, drawing a comparison between the undead and Democrats. Congress can’t work in August — it’s against the law. We’re not joking. No use mincing words about it, right Mike?: The Weekly Oil And Gas Follies 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z Global Times, a Chinese English-language daily, denounced America as: “a mincing rascal”. Cybersnoops and mincing rascals 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Chinese state media labeled the United States a "mincing rascal" and "high-level hooligan" on Wednesday in response to Washington charging five Chinese military officers with hacking U.S. companies to steal trade secrets. In cyber spying row, Chinese media call U.S. a 'mincing rascal' 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z In January 2008, while Mr. Fisher was pointing to the optimism of chief executives in Texas, Ms. Yellen was not mincing words about her views. As Crisis Loomed, Yellen Made Wry and Forceful Calls for Action 2014-02-22T03:00:38Z But there was no need for a translator Monday because nobody was mincing words: The Sochi halfpipe is substandard, the top riders in the world agreed. In Sochi, snowboarders critical of Olympic halfpipe 2014-02-10T20:29:00Z I'm no longer mincing about but striding in my gorgeous green sari, feeling in control - feminist, rather than just feminine. How I learned to love the sari 2013-12-09T00:32:34Z Next into the mincing machine was James Anderson, clean-bowled for a golden duck and given a fierce send-off by the close fielders as he departed, head bowed. Johnson leaves England in disarray 2013-12-07T07:41:09Z "Regarding the issue of network security, the U.S. is such a mincing rascal that we must stop developing any illusions about it." In cyber spying row, Chinese media call U.S. a 'mincing rascal' 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z When slicing or mincing, keep fingers holding the food curled and out of harm’s way. Well: Tested Recipes for Kitchen Safety 2013-08-19T04:01:51Z The drone industry itself is less mincing in its choice of words. With Drones, States Balance Economic Opportunity with Privacy Concerns 2013-05-01T10:50:22Z This time, Mr. Norquist and other conservatives are not mincing words. Bill on Sales Tax for Internet Purchases Divides Republicans 2013-04-29T01:46:38Z "We assure our customers by showing them the meat and mincing it for them in front of their eyes." UK shoppers buy less meat after horsemeat scandal 2013-02-18T15:39:25Z He was following several lines of inquiry, including the possibility that horsemeat was brought into slaughterhouses illegally, or that the meat entered the supply chain during the mincing process. Polish supplier linked to burger scandal 'had been providing meat for a year' 2013-01-30T19:44:54Z Back in the '80s, he said he did not like a couple of videos "where we're mincing about" and the title of their third album Seven and the Ragged Tiger. John Taylor: I was so arrogant 2012-09-23T00:52:34Z “It’s football,” said Cunningham, mincing quarterbacks and not words. Michael Vick hurt again, will have MRI on ribs 2012-08-21T14:22:00Z She’d been drawn out of her home, following the light, and now was taking mincing steps across a white bed sheet. Zombies Invade Google Campus 2012-08-21T14:45:03.067Z A leading figure in civil society and a longtime member of the political opposition, Ms. Fernandez’s habit of not mincing her words has often landed her in trouble with the authorities. Malaysian Activist, Irene Fernandez, Speaks Out for Migrant Workers 2012-08-06T19:20:55Z We are not mincing our words at all. India Ink: A Conversation With: Bollywood's Aamir Khan 2012-07-27T04:16:51Z He comes up and he's not mincing any words and cussing and screaming at me. Did Fredy Montero and Eddie Johnson have a punchup at practice earlier this season? 2012-07-19T21:33:05Z The baron continued on his way down-stairs with a kind of mincing dignity, and Mrs. Meares came out of her bedroom. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Enid and her mamma, following the neat and mincing parlourmaid, made a stately procession to the main thoroughfare, where the really handsome equipage provided by Mr. Young was awaiting their pleasure. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z I didn't mean to say that, dear, but now that I have said it, there's no use mincing matters. Mademoiselle Blanche A Novel 2012-04-07T02:00:33.037Z If the latter, the blubber is cut into “mincemeat,” and chopping knives, and even mincing machines, are employed. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z Along the wire walked a harlequin, taking mincing dance steps and balancing across his shoulders a pole from whose extremities dangled two huge baskets. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z I feel in a communicative, garrulous mood to-night, and it's no use mincing words. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z St Augustine long afterwards says that "till yesterday" they were to be seen in the streets of Carthage "with wet hair, whitened face and mincing walk." The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z We do not want the tone of qualification or mincing apology. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Acherley blurted out his news, neither sparing oaths nor mincing matters. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Here was an over-corpulent Dowager Empress of China, there an Indian warrior in full paint and toggery, and mincing along behind him two giggling Geisha girls. The Chase of the Golden Plate 2012-02-27T03:00:13.060Z "Cruel one," he piped out in ecstasy, mincing towards her. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z She still wore the big flapping slippers and had much ado to keep them on when she climbed on the table with the mincing air of a young miss making an elocution lesson. The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door 2012-02-21T03:00:19.740Z He would follow a likely subject about, stumble against him as though by accident and make an elaborate apology in mincing, female tones. The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports 2012-02-19T03:00:17.513Z The one found fault with his effeminate manners and mincing ways, the other vowed that he was so sweet as to be mawkish. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z The Volunteers were furious, Albion was perfidious; the Irish senate was playing a double game, there was no use in mincing matters in the way of compromise. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z Mr. Pitt, when he showed this letter to Lord Clare, spoke openly without mincing matters. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Here a rabbit had crossed the trail—not with leisurely bounds or mincing hops, but stomach to earth, in flight for very life. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z The situation, therefore, must be looked at straightforwardly and spoken of without mincing words. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z While I can’t see any movement, I imagine the chopping of onions, the mincing of garlic. | Townies: Where Lupo the Wolf Goes for Dinner 2012-02-02T02:31:14Z As for me, I don't think it's worth mincing matters. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, September 30th 1893 2012-01-27T03:00:22.100Z Imagine a short man, a fat man, a man with thin, crooked legs, a mincing gait, a head too bald, a face too red; in short, a clown of a man. Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German 2012-01-25T03:00:33.660Z Holding the beef between his forepaws, he proceeded to devour it in mincing little squirrel-bites. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z Close to the southern end of the bay is a detached rock called The Irish Lady, which with some imagination may be likened to a mincing dame flouncing out to sea. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z When minced-meat is required for a large number of fowls, a mincing or sausage machine will save much time and prepare the meat better than chopping. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z She was proud and mincing in her deportment. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z There was no use mincing matters, we were in the fight to win out. A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River 2012-01-11T03:00:29.487Z Its length only permitted a short step and a mincing gait. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z XII Soon as Brunhild's women were all come to the strand, Many a courtly warrior took by her lily hand A lady fair, and gently her mincing steps upstay'd. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z Brand assumed the mincing accent which he reserved for his impersonations of the aristocracy. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z I suppose you think that mincing thing would have put the box on her head to go out with you, don't you? Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z And Enslee answered with a helpless, mincing burlesque of dignity: "I told him he was a cad, and I didn't want him ever to speak to me again." What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Before it had altogether ceased, an inner door opposite opened, emitting a whiff of cookery, and a woman, without cap, her hair very much dressed, came forward in a mincing manner. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z With mincing step the maidens forth to their chambers pass'd, And eke in rest the strangers slept on till break of day. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z A mincing damsel in a lace tucker conducted them to their seats, which were situated in the fourth row of an unpeopled desert of stalls. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Rhys, then engaged sowing barley on last year's turnip ground, looked as black as two thunder-clouds rolled into one, and without mincing his words gave a decided refusal. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z It was no use mincing the matter: Cora and he were not getting on. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z And as Kate spoke in a soft, clear English voice, with that lip speech which, to users of the rough, thick, guttural Dutch, seems mincing and super-refined, Christina detested her yet more. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z From pricking ears to mincing feet She was all tense with blood and quiver, You saw her clipt hide twitch and shiver Over her netted cords of veins. Reynard the Fox 2011-11-20T03:00:13.153Z In military affairs especially there was no mincing matters. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z Not for him the sweet felicities of the mincing phraser or the dreamy languors of the riming troubadour. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z He understood this quite clearly, and often it happened that after parting from her he upbraided himself, not mincing words, and in his soul made a solemn promise of reformation. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z They were marching in their own way; no stride or swing about it; but a more subtle jauntiness, a kind of mincing strut, perhaps not unconsciously sinister and unconventional, an aggressive part of themselves. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z He looked to men like young delight Gone courting April maidenhood, That has the primrose in her blood, He on his mincing lady mare. Reynard the Fox 2011-11-20T03:00:13.153Z A mincing gait was soon acquired, but I found sitting still more awkward. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z "Viscount Kneedrock is mad," she affirmed, mincing the manifest fact no longer. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z "I hadn't expected this," he said, without mincing words. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z Yes, there's no mincing matters—lost, beyond hope. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z Those silk stockings of yours must not be wasted in a mincing gait. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z No use in mincing matters in this case. The Bradys' Chinese Clew The Secrect Dens of Pell Street 2011-08-17T02:00:26.867Z At one moment the dancers would stoop near the ground, and dance forward with short, mincing steps, shading their eyes with their hands, as if searching for the trail of their foes. The War Trail 2011-07-30T02:00:15.833Z It was no use mincing matters, he told his comrades. The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the ?Discovery? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.487Z Give like orders to your daughters, the mincing harpies that eat me.’” John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z He spoke in a peculiarly mincing way in a high voice. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z Meanwhile, the Churchwarden had gone on to the farm, and entered by the kitchen door, where Mrs Portlock was busy dividing her attention between scolding the maids and mincing meat for sausages. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z He is gross, jovial, self-indulgent; she is delicate, mincing, conventional. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z Another dropped beneath mincing hoofs without a sound. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z The mincing step, the woman's air, The tender sigh, the soften'd note, Poor Adeline must now forswear, Nor think upon the petticoat. The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts 2011-06-26T02:00:10.547Z About a week after his return, and when Jim Wiggin was able to be about again, Justice Sherman walked into the kitchen with a mincing air quite unlike his ordinary free stride. The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work 2011-06-23T02:00:25.403Z His mount, too, was circling around the rock with mincing steps, quite as unfavorably disposed toward the beast as was Freckles. Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Schoolgirls Among Cowboys 2011-06-14T02:00:23.130Z Nevertheless, she continued with a mincing imitation of Violetta Pax, who could be heard discoursing on art. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z She rode back to the men, who had continued on their way, holding her horse to a mincing trot, for he seemed to have caught the tensity of her mood. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z With her dress picked up, and holding a flower in her hand, she came mincing along smiling at the world with a puckered face and out of a pair of very black and brilliant eyes. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z Had she forgotten the fate of the daughters of Jerusalem, that went mincing and tinkling with their feet? Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z In fact, I paid more attention to Babe Ruth, his Yankees teammate, mincing around the bases after a home run. For Columbia Class of ?41, It Is Always the Day After 2011-05-28T20:13:46Z In fact, we have become so accustomed to strutting tenors and mincing sopranos that we accept what they have to offer as a matter of course. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z She told Sir William all that she had heard and all that she believed was true, without mincing facts or wincing at the expletives which more than once interrupted her tale. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z "I was about to propound the same inquisition to you when I seen you approaching I," she answered with a mincing manner. Vacation with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-08T02:00:04.123Z Ferreted out by his mandatories, threatened with arrest by the Council, this Greek chose the lesser danger, and re-entered the Hôtel-de-Ville in mincing attitude. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z Anybody who had no interest in mincing matters must have described the State finances as in a hopeless muddle. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z Tempest talks just as Nell did, and walks with the same sturdy stride,—there was nothing mincing about Nell,—and, if one may trust to fancy's eye, she looks just as Nell looked. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z This statement is fairly straightforward, with no mincing of words, or confused rhetoric. Should everyone have access to life saving medicines? 2011-04-21T13:15:02.817Z She had warned him, without mincing words, that if any crime in which the Rat was involved was carried through to its fulfilment she would hold him responsible and hand him over to the police. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z Our people have behaved infamously, disgracefully,—there's no mincing the matter. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z "You are perhaps not aware, ma'am," said she, with a mincing, lisping accent, the very essence of gentility, "that this instrument is not a 'house piano.'" The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z There was no circumlocution, no mincing of language, but aggressive candour, and, when it was considered necessary, wholesale censure and vituperation. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z I talked to him sharp enough: no mincing of words I assure you. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z He is smoking a pipe with a china bowl decorated with a mincing odalisque. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z My employer didn't like it—did not want a strange child about the house and told me so without mincing words. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z There's no need of mincing the matter; we need fear no eavesdropper here. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z Then, with mincing little steps, they closed the distance between them. Swamp Cat 2011-03-06T03:00:20.453Z I'm very ill, Izzie," he said; "it's no use mincing the matter; I am ill. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z This was only an excuse for foolery, for he took it and, walking with it, assumed a mincing gait to the accompaniment of remarkably comic grimaces. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z Maudie herself, with her gait of swimming importance, came mincing across the road. The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z Tripping and mincing with the most unseemly capers and gestures, he brandished his crooked blade in a fashion which could alone have proved dangerous to himself. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z The fawn was stealing toward him with mincing steps—as graceful a creature as dwelt in all this wilderness world of grace—and its eyes were soft and tender as a girl's. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z She went, carrying her little head very high indeed, and taking dainty, mincing steps. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z "I asked you, Captain," said Merl, resuming the mincing softness of his usual manner, "as to which of these securities might be the more eligible for immediate negotiation?" The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z "My own sentiments to a 'T,' miss," said a soft, mincing voice behind her; and Mary turned and beheld Mr. Crow. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z Sally chanted in the quaint, mincing voice with which she had been taught to make her revelations. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z So Betsy walked along beside her sister with a slow and mincing step, her face as long as if she had lost her best friend. Napoleon's Young Neighbor 2011-01-24T03:00:18.637Z There had been no mincing of matters; what he had said had been short and soldierly, as man to man. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z Begone! and let me not hear thy soft, mincing voice, which is an infamy to a man! Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z I use the Doric, in place of the more modern and mincing term of "colored man;" for the Doric alone will convey to the American the meaning in which I wish to be understood. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z "Have you my tea there?" she asked in a rich, clear voice, with a touch of the mincing French accent. The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z "It was no good mincing matters, so I asked, outright: "'Are you going to report me, sir?' The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z And good Aunt Rikchen, with her anxious little face under her great white cap, and her little mincing steps, how would she get on with the beautiful aristocratic young lady? The Breaking of the Storm, Vol. I. 2010-12-20T17:12:22.067Z Royal watchers and the British media are not mincing words about the humble lineage of "Commoner Kate." Kate Middleton's 'commoner' status stirs up Britons' old class divide 2010-12-19T02:45:08Z The author, Cordelia Fine, who has a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from University College London, is an acerbic critic, mincing no words when it comes to those she disagrees with. Books on Science: Peeling Away Theories on Gender and the Brain 2010-08-23T21:14:00Z “Iceland has apparently returned to the business of mincing whales to make meal, and seems to be testing out potential markets for their products,” said Chris Butler-Stroud of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. Could Icelandic Whale Make Its Way Into Danish Pork? 2010-03-19T19:33:00Z Crushing does cause greater garlic cell damage than mincing, and so a greater release of pungent, garlicky substances. Cooking Tips: Oats, Garlic and Tomatoes 2010-03-12T15:33:00Z The chef takes it from there, mincing them to a fine dice and whipping them with chopped walnuts, olive oil and spices into a vibrant, stop-sign-red version of the appetizer spread called muhammara. New Jersey Dining | Paterson: A Gentle Introduction to Syrian Cuisine 2010-02-20T03:13:00Z "Perhaps not," replied Leo, wrinkling his forehead; "the devil knows how it is that I have suddenly got into this mincing way." The Undying Past When you put on those confounded would-be manly airs, and grow affected and mincing as some confounded Burlington Arcade dandy, I think to myself, What a contemptible little puppy it is!” A Double Knot She had now come back to his side, and with a mincing gesture pushed her hand again through his arm. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers These giants in their baggy blanket trousers, their brass-buttoned coats and Leander ties nearly as pink as their own faces, made Wedderburn's white Apollos look almost mincing and the embroideries rather insipid. Sinister Street, vol. 2 He buried himself in a deep embroidered chair, with an ebony box of cigarettes at his feet, while Mr. Wilmot, after a myriad mincing preliminaries, sought out various highly coloured bottles of liqueurs. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Then she assumed a mincing air—finger on chin, lips pursed, and eyes rolling upward, you know. The Haunted Pajamas It was the two dowagers, with Othomar; the old ladies were talking in a courtly, mincing way to the young prince, who brought them chairs. Majesty A Novel You mustn't mind my not mincing words, but it's clear to me he doesn't care a fig about you, and that your money is the attraction. An Engagement of Convenience A Novel However, the report that Jane had attempted to kill herself and was about to die reached some of her female associates, and in their perfumed finery and with mincing, high-heeled steps they rustled in. The Cottage of Delight A Novel Either the gentleman must take little mincing steps like the lady, or she must accommodate herself to his pace by making long strides, which is still more ugly. The Children of the World My father was and is a bad man; there's no mincing the matter. The Shadow of a Man Many of the tales are unfit for reproduction in our more mincing times. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Ha!--would not she be a delicate morsel for an artist, who looks farther than a trifle of white and red and those mincing ways that attract the crowd. L'Arrabiata and Other Tales There she goes mincing down the row, and there's a coach waiting at the end with white horses. Little Miss Joy Yea, but they say, sir, you were Not half so mincing in your carriage, nor so majestic. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 It is true that the author is anything but mincing in his expressions and descriptions, but there is nothing in the Sleeping Bard which can give offence to any but the over fastidious. The Welsh and Their Literature from The London Quarterly Review, January 1861, American Edition It was as wrong for me," I went on with a wild idea of not mincing matters with this pure soul, "to obey your innocent request, as it was for you to make it. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life As a rule she was careful and mincing in her speech, but anger opened the flood-gates of her vocabulary, and words rushed forth bruised and decapitated. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle I see them moving on before me—with white peacocks mincing after.... Shadows of Flames A Novel He had been taught to imitate his mincing walk and other gestures. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Those whose walk is mincing, affected, and artificial, rarely, if ever, accomplish much; whereas those who walk carelessly, that is naturally, are just what they appear to be, and put on nothing for outside show. The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology "Is she of royal blood?" said Guise, who, though he had to be upon his manners with Valentine herself, saw no reason for mincing matters with a mere Jesuit scribbler. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion "Raise thy hand to my lips, mejuffrouw," he said mincing his words, "momentarily I have not the use of mine own." The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel He, too, enjoyed these ambles on the big, shining beasts, that rattled their nostrils with high spirits, and stepped mincing sideways, as Loring walked at the bridle-rein. Shadows of Flames A Novel It seems, even to me, so absurd to think of men mincing and capering about a room. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance It is all nonsense talking in mincing terms about English smuggling in Spain. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 He brought his gallop to a mincing trot and came straight toward Jacob, but a yard away he stopped and leaped catlike to one side; with head tossed high he stared at Connor. The Garden of Eden "Didn't you lose some blankets about a year ago in the Wet Mountain valley, near Buena Vista?" asked Jack without mincing matters. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter Your pride forbids the carriage of a sword, which is borne behind you—much use may it be!—by a mincing fellow in your dainty livery. English Costume Dainty principal girls with dainty tiers of petticoats smiled and said good evening in their mincing, genteel, principal girl voices. Carnival You see that I am not mincing matters with you, boys. A Daughter of the Union Timeh flaunted her heels at the sun and then came with short, mincing steps. The Garden of Eden Isolde over the body of Tristan, Br�nnhilde over the body of Siegfried, exhibited no mincing pathos; the mood established was one of lofty calm. Interpreters She advanced, walking with short, mincing footsteps, while her eyes swept the room. Lady Cassandra There was not any use in mincing the matter. Fairfax and His Pride I smiled at the idea of this courteous, little, mincing creature ruffling my nerves. The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen Her comedy of course is "high"; it is of the highest conceivable kind, and she has often been accused of being too mincing and too artificial. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. He was a languid mincing creature whose decadence glowed around him like phosphorescence around a piece of rotted swampwood. The Ambassador On that particular morning, after the death of Maximilian had become known, the answer came not as readily as usual; for the chief of the secret police was not in the habit of mincing matters. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections The reeve, the miller, and the cook are several men, and distinguished from each other as much as the mincing lady prioress, and the broad-speaking, gap-toothed wife of Bath. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Each girl as she received her book said "thank you" with quite superfluous unction, all in different tones of voice, some gruff, some squeaky, some mincing, and some affected. Loyal to the School You see, I am not mincing matters, but avowing nakedly what many scientific thinkers more or less distinctively believe. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse No, Virginia Temple, there is no longer any need of mincing matters between us. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion No stately minuet or mincing cotillion was the order of the evening. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge There's Sally Kittridge likes me; I can see that plainly enough, for all her mincing; and why couldn't I have had the sense to fall in love with her? The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine In the ghostly light of fog and breaking day he performed an uncanny pantomime, presenting a liner's officer, resplendent in collar and cuff, strutting, mincing, on a steamer's bridge. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea It is no use mincing matters at a moment like this. The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror Haven’t I seen you mincing downstairs, with all your colors harmonized, even to your gloves and gaiters? Household Papers and Stories This one’s descent was mincing, hesitant, adumbrating dread of disclosures—these expectedly ample, columnar, massive. The So-called Human Race He never quite lost the mincing speech of the class from which he sprang, nor could he acquire facility in the vigorous mode of expression proper to his new and exalted station. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 9, 1920 But it had not been done without several days' hard work, in the way of coy glances, aimless laughter, childish pranks, mincing ways and numberless little tricks. The Grandee It’s strange how it hits a man when he’s in love; for there’s no use mincing things—Kanaka and all, I was in love with her, or just as good. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) Joe couldn't but remember the fracas the mincing Hungarian was talking about. Frigid Fracas “To think that this great force for evil should be swayed by the same sentiment that sets a lassie mincing to her glass!” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) The dandy of the school came mincing along the sidewalk with the evident intention of joining the auto party. The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna or, The Crew That Won As shown by his strong accent, which was mincing and lisping, he was Andalusian, of the province of Malaga. The Grandee I speak with the bluntness of gravity, madam; this is no hour for mincing. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) In character we seldom see Traits so diverse meet and agree: Can the affected mincing trip, Exalted brow, and pride-pressed lip, In strange incongruous union meet, With all that stamps the hypocrite? My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. Back flew the bolt, uprose the latch, And open swung the door, And little mincing feet were heard Pat, pat, along the floor. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 Out of the faint mist which hung over the farther end of the square advanced a procession of tall, dust-coloured animals, with long, delicately poised necks and a mincing gait. The Brass Bottle Went to Lady Dudley Stewart’s last night; a party; saw a vulgar-looking, fat man with spectacles, and a mincing, rather pretty pink and white woman, his wife. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II The curtains rose before him, the usher called his name, and he entered the room with an exaggeration of his usual mincing and airy dignity. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) So he continued his threateningly mincing progress toward Finn, and whinnied out a declaration to the effect that this could be no resting-place for dingoes, however huge and diversified in their smells. Finn The Wolfhound But thus it is when rude calamity Lays its strong gripe upon these mincing minions; The dainty gew-gaw forms dissolve at once, And shiver at the shock. Jane Shore A Tragedy Mr. Sweeting is mincing the slice of roast beef on his plate, and complaining that it is very tough; Mr. Donne says the beer is flat. Shirley It was uttered in the same soft, mincing, judicial accents. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly The chit is so unreal; a mincing doll; she will and she will not; there is no counting on her, by God! The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) In gait and manner he affects a mincing delicacy, by which he seeks to impress the thoughtless with a sense of his superior refinement. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 Though I don't go much on mincing words, I won't specify the priest nor the Levite right here in Cedar Mountain; but I will make mention of the Good Samaritan. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country Jacqueline wheeled in time to catch a glimpse of her in the crowd; a flashily dressed, too-stylish figure, mincing along on very high heels, and dangling in one hand a gilt-mesh bag. Kildares of Storm Instead of that, it seemed to tickle her mightily, for she came forward, with her bare feet, and made a little mincing bow, and almost laughed. Phemie Frost's Experiences Their mincing monosyllable is too weak to bear the structural weight of the clauses. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) The thing was too utterly absurd—yet Gordon was positive that the strong oak floor of the dancing space was visibly swaying and creaking beneath the stranger’s mincing tread! Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 You fly from your husband and throw yourself on my hands and say to me,"—again she assumed the mincing tones—"Yes, here I am again. Tante It struck him even at the moment as fine in her that she met it with no wincing nor mincing. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II She painted her face, wore patches on her cheeks, drove in her chariot, and adopted a mincing foolish gait that has come down to us even in this day. In Times Like These But he looked very fit and fearless as, after a moment’s supercilious survey of his rival’s ooze-dripping form, he came mincing forward to the attack. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories So, you paste jewel, you’ll go mincing into church and see her married and dance with everyone afterward; and I’ll sit in the office licking postage stamps while you kiss the bride! The Gorgeous Girl The attitude of this mincing fribble, as he danced twittingly away, was the first intimation Mauville had received that he would soon be relegated to the ranks of gay adventurers thronging the city. The Strollers The analyst begins by making a series of what may be called "brews," mincing, pounding, boiling, cooling, filtering, decanting, and distilling, over and over again. The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 The hideous mincing gait of the tightly-skirted women seems to speak. In Times Like These Some butter if you please,'" he satirized in mincing tones, "'this soup is cold—this beef is underdone. The Vagrant Duke He began to resent the fact that after his lucky strike on the exchange he had played copy cat and gone mincing into the hide-and-leather business, using Constantine’s good will as his stepping stone. The Gorgeous Girl A quavering voice, near at hand, recalled him to himself, and turning, he beheld the marquis approaching with mincing manner, the paint and pigments cracked by the artificial smiles wreathing his wrinkled face. The Strollers Had he been guilty of mincing daintily about in this old house while a woman was being done to death under his nose, when a little bolder action on his part might have saved her? Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 After a moment, he began to take little mincing steps sidewise, pulling impatiently at the reins. Rim o' the World The inconvenience and sometimes positive pain caused to the eyes by mincing or chopping the onions on a board is thus obviated, and a large quantity can be quickly prepared in the above way. Nelson's Home Comforts Thirteenth Edition Once she puzzled the nursery community who had not been visiting the bungalow, by mincing about on pointed toes, with shoulders shrugged like a dancing master in caricature. Lotus Buds Geoffrey, she remembered, had not been addicted to mincing words, but, at least, he had lived in accordance with a Spartan moral code. Thurston of Orchard Valley "What has the naughty man been doing to our darling?" they asked in a sort of playful, mincing lisp. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real A trim programme-seller was tripping down the gangway with mincing daintiness—down and down to the very front row of the stalls. The Education of Eric Lane There's no use mincing words, no use holding up the mask any more. Sunlight Patch Now the whilom Gabbai and Town Councillor found himself almost patronized—as a poor provincial—by this mincing, genteel clerical couple. Ghetto Comedies No flights and vapors, no fine airs, no affected, mincing ways. The School Queens It is no use mincing the matter; as the disease is dire, so also must be the remedy.... General Gordon A Christian Hero She’s behaving in the most idiotic fashion—goes mincing about the school, and sighing, and even mopping her eyes when she thinks anybody’s looking at her. The Madcap of the School The Sheriff's daughter, a pale, hard-faced girl, with straw-colored hair and mincing ways, announced in inaudible voice the terms of the contest. Robin Hood What's the use of mincing words, fencing about the truth any longer? When Dreams Come True Although it was shady in the garden, she held a lace parasol over her head, and her walk was so mincing and airy that Twinkle almost laughed in her face. Twinkle and Chubbins Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland Usually silent and uncommunicative, occasionally he exploded under stress; and when he did so, there was no mincing of words. All About Coffee It gave him courage to speak out—his whole mind and no mincing matters. The Combined Maze There's no use in your mincing matters with me in this way. True To His Colors Dryden rightly calls her "the mincing Prioress;" Mr Horne wrongly says, "she was evidently one of the most high-bred and refined ladies of her time." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Augusta came mincing up with a triumphant air, and related the action of the fairy. Harper's Young People, January 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Not sugar nippers, ma'am, I beg; or your large work-box, or the mincing machine! Soap-Bubble Stories For Children There is no use in mincing matters; you have talents. A Romantic Young Lady “There's nothing to tell, it's all so foolish,” answered Maximov at once, with evident satisfaction, mincing a little. The Brothers Karamazov The Cat put on a mincing tone: "Children," said she, "I love you both as much as you deserve." The Blue Bird for Children The Wonderful Adventures of Tyltyl and Mytyl in Search of Happiness What did she want to speak to me for, in her nice little mincing voice! Judith Lynn A Story of the Sea "Well," said Mr. Grey, when David had finished, "I don't know your holding-out powers, Larkin, but you do certainly speak the truth without mincing." It, and Other Stories He remembered perfectly her cheap prettiness, her mincing manner, her flamboyant smartness of apparel from Grand Street emporiums of fashion. Making People Happy He remembered also rebuking her priggishly for unintelligible language and mincing away. The Rough Road In respect to her bewitching endearments, there's no mincing matters, at all. Christmas Eve at Swamp's End But the little mincing voice had said, “I’d be pleased to see you—I like you.” Judith Lynn A Story of the Sea Miss Slocum had a queer, mincing gait which her long limbs appeared averse to, and the result was a little hitchy. That Girl Montana In set words, mincing no terms, it accused Alec MacKenzie of sending George Allerton to his death in order to save himself. The Explorer The animals approached the fire with mincing steps. The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers Kate put her fingers into her uncle’s hand, and with a mincing step, walked into the hall. Jessie Carlton The Story of a Girl who Fought with Little Impulse, the Wizard, and Conquered Him The artless graces of a child seem mincing affectations in a grown-up woman. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature You surely would not have us a couple of mincing girls peacocking round in this fashion, would you now?' The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys She took him delicately at the end of his short white beard between her long finger and thumb, and, with her high and mincing step, led him through the door. Privy Seal His Last Venture There is no mincing the matter in this sturdy volume. History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians Ultra-genteel young bucks would have had such buckles set with brilliants, that they might twinkle and glitter at every mincing step. A Virginia Scout Too short steps detract from dignity very much, forming a mincing pace; too long steps are masculine. How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Behavior At Home; The Etiquette Of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, The Street, The Church, Places Of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., With Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies I would not flatt'ringly your Highness flatter With mincing terms, nor will I mince the matter. Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx And you know how we usually denominate style: it is the little lace-frilled petticoat of the 29 lady novelist’s mincing passions, or the breeches that belong to a male author’s mental respirations. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance I am more than suspicious of any constrained formal method, bringing up children in a mere manual drill, crimping them into a mould of mincing proprieties, and making them speak with an automaton click. Humanity in the City He folded his hands on his breast, and said in a demure, mincing tone, "I beg your pardon, Miss Nelson." The Children of Wilton Chase In making horse-back riding a social diversion he taught a lot of fine old family buggy horses a number of mincing steps, so that thereafter they were impossible in the family phaeton. In Our Town Then she paced the floor with her mincing little steps, now quite nervous and flurried. Five Little Peppers at School At last the hollowness of his pretensions was detected, and there was no mincing of epithets for the man who had befooled and destroyed a great party. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 After much coaxing the black colt came mincing up to her old master. The 1926 Tatler Clare, clad in the little Norfolk suit and the boy’s stout boots and hat, crossed the yard with the little mincing steps so characteristic of her, and therefore so charming to the man who waited. The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] Lady Staines disposed of her at once as "a mincing ninny." The Dark Tower It moved slowly, daintily, almost mincing as its legs sampled the surface of the shore. This Crowded Earth The Baroness is thanking His Excellency with a mincing smile, which covers the thought 'This Turk is a revolting beast.' The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 Instantly Athol had sprung to his feet and was mincing along behind the Admiral in such perfect mimicry of his sister that Archie hooted. A Dixie School Girl It was infinitely droll to see the two, mincing, bowing, and pirouetting in front of the mirror. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg We of the cuddy," he began in a tone of mincing severity, "are not pleased at the raucous uproar said to be coming from a mess of officers and gentlemen. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions When the Mexican began speaking all the rustle died out in the court, and in the deep silence his precise, mincing utterance made every word distinct. The Other Side of the Door Having delivered this most effective blow, the ram stepped back a pace or two, mincing on his slender feet, and prepared to repeat it. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life "It's perfectly agreeable to me," assented Gray, in the mincing, elaborate voice characteristic of him when drunk. Barbarians It was a young woman in flowing, classic draperies—a goddess she looked; and after the mincing shepherdesses and their artificial, conventional mannerisms, this woman came as a breath from Nature's grandeur, young, forceful, untrammelled. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg "What disgrace, sir?" repeated the Deemster, mocking his son in a mincing treble. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 The gold-and-ivory walls of the lobby seemed to rise immeasurably to a ceiling flashing with frescoes of light lovers in blue and fluffy white, mincing steps and ardent kisses and flaunting draperies. The Job An American Novel "Oh—had not thought so!" he mimicked, mincing over to the dressing-table and surveying the array of perfumes and pomades and curling irons. The Reckoning “Simply because I wanted to stop some place, and I really can’t stand that mincing Miss Mitchin and her half-baked yearners and that odious creature with the beard and the ballet skirt, again.” The Innocents A Story for Lovers And yet, when he trippled home with mincing steps, there was in his face an expression of cowardly, petty smirking. The Goose Man And the middle of him—he seemed to bulk and fill out the entire chair—so incongruous with his little feet and mincing gait! Stubble Those, he declared, are “victories, plantations, frontiers, staples of commerce, pedantry of schools, affectation of travellers, translations, fancy and style of court, vernility and mincing of citizens, pulpits, political remonstrances, theatres, shops, &c.” Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley (1712) and The British Academy (1712) Do not your officers from Philadelphia and New York come mincing and tiptoeing through Halifax and Quebec, all smiling and staring about, quizzing glasses raised? The Reckoning With mincing step, just dotting the ground, his whole body shaking like a delicate structure in danger every moment of tumbling to the ground, he advanced to where Miriam and Elbridge stood before Mr. Barbary. Chanticleer A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family Herr Carovius walked away with mincing, merry steps down toward the small end of the alley, singing an aria from the “Barber of Seville” as he went. The Goose Man "I say," cried Jack, "the man you come to marry shall be a man and not a mincing exquisite with no ideas beyond the cut of his coat." The Honourable Mr. Tawnish Then, you came, and without mincing your words you told the whole brutal truth; and you uttered it with a spirit of brutality and bravado that would be unbelievable under any other circumstances. The Last Woman At last, however, a chance came, when Mr. Assheton said in his mincing voice— "I believe, Miss Carolan, that like me, you are quite a new arrival in this country." "Chinkie's Flat" 1904 Through confusion and annoyance he caught nothing of the conversation till Elias, in a mincing voice, announced: "The grub quite ready." The Valley of the Kings Teach her, but teach her plainly, without mincing, that in reality they are nothing. Hortense Makers of History Series It equally reprobates an ungainly rusticity, and a mincing, tripping, over-soft manner. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing You see I am not mincing matters, but avowing nakedly what many scientific thinkers more or less distinctly believe. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 This time there would be no mincing of matters. The Black Phantom At a trot for the time over the pans, which were flat, and in delicate, mincing little spurts across the bending ice, Doctor Rolfe proceeded. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. She took his arm with a mock fine-lady air, and walked beside him with mincing steps across the hall to the dining-room. Peggy-Alone Mrs. Bennett, a very pretty woman with mincing manners, received Goddard graciously, and made room for him on the sofa by her. The Lost Despatch The city man, accustomed to crowded pavements, comes with a short and mincing step. Mushrooms on the Moor Oh, that was just it, there’s no use mincing matters!” The Girls at Mount Morris One day last year, with hems and haws and sidelong steps and nervous caws, the crows came mincing forth to mail gay valentines, you know. Zodiac Town The Rhymes of Amos and Ann The next minute she was dancing, but not in the dull, mincing fashion in which she had so recently been coached. The Fifth Ace There were whisperings below, and apparently a hurried consultation, and then a young woman came mincing up the stairs. A Little Union Scout After six months she has acquired a mincing speech, from which she is still liable to lapse into appalling indiscretions; but after another six months the product might pass muster in any modiste's showroom. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914 And so it followed that, as she fed the mincing pea-fowl, Madame de Vallorbes' smile changed in character from reflection to impatience. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Mr. Makins, sir, who wrote yesterday's Liberal leader for the syndicate, wound up by saying the time had gone by for mincing our opinion of the front Opposition Bench. Shining Ferry As a girl on Sabbath mornings I entered it with all the mincing worldliness of my young mind unabashed. A Circuit Rider's Wife His gait is changed, and he travels with short, mincing steps, without any of his accustomed ease and freedom. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Still she would not like to see me placed in the pillory, and that would be my fate if I was caught poaching—there’s no use mincing the matter, that’s the word. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea Think of the distance lost, Charles, for such a little mincing forward step. Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes It had rather a meaningless face, a long thin nose, and mincing, dainty ways of walking and taking its food. Black, White and Gray A Story of Three Homes He received us politely enough, and without mincing any words he gave us to understand that we were on a fool's errand and that he would not yield. Fifty Years of Public Service The folds, extended above his head, naturally added to his height, so that he suggested a ghostly giant mincing across the clearing to the river. The Phantom of the River There is such mass in his criticism; so little of the mincing and niggling of the small virtuoso. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. "Such sweet shoes!" ventured Josie in a mincing tone quite in keeping with her henna wig and lace ruffle. Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman Keen blows the blast, and eager is the air; With flakes of feather'd snow the ground is spread; To step, with mincing pace, to early prayer, Our clay-cold vestal leaves her downy bed. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency Laughter and shouts greeted this order, and when Kid Conner offered to impersonate a lovely damsel and, with mincing step and bashful mien, appeared at the opening, Jake was game, and a skuffle ensued. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old “Have you my tea there?” she asked in a rich, clear voice, with a touch of the mincing French accent. Danger! and Other Stories Presently there appeared at the head of the path, by the bridge, the form of a stranger, a little man who came on with nervous, mincing steps. Mary Louise in the Country "Yes, yes," she insisted, in a mincing whisper, as if she were laying claim to a distinction. Aunt Rachel The rope slackened, and securing a firm grip on the halter, the Texan edged slowly toward the door, the horse following with nervous, mincing steps, and nostrils aquiver. Prairie Flowers He mimicked what he thought to be her mincing accents. Good Old Anna “Spinster” is equally uncomfortable, suggesting, as it does, corkscrew curls and immoderate attenuation of frame; while “maiden lady,” which the ultra-punctilious substitute, is entirely too mincing for sensible, whole-souled people to countenance. The Love Affairs of an Old Maid He turned around and with the same mincing, regular steps retreated along the path. Mary Louise in the Country Rachel ceased her emphatic noddings and her mincing whisper, and sat with her hands folded in her lap to listen. Aunt Rachel "Why, sir—she went to Montreal," said the servant—"to Montreal, you know, sir," she repeated, in a mincing tone, bridling and blushing at the same time. The Lady of the Ice A Novel This becomes, as in ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ curiouser and curiouser——” There was a tone of rising excitement in his quiet, rather mincing voice. Good Old Anna In the little mincing societies addicted to intellectual and moral culture the creative zest is lost. Milton Scarcely were mother and child out of sight when Mr. Sinclair came mincing along from an opposite direction and entered the hotel. Mary Louise in the Country "I know of no joke, Niece Ruth," said the old lady, with mincing iciness. Aunt Rachel Mrs. Blake laughs in a little mincing way. April's Lady A Novel He caught my mincing Miss by the arm, with her doll and her bundle, and bundled her home, leaving me and the postchaise, looking like two fools. The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook With all his mincing manners and fine talk, depend upon it he’ll prove a Tartar at bottom.” Paddy Finn After some time our artist approached us with mincing steps and a hand thrust in his breast-pocket as if for possible recourse to defence. Vesty of the Basins She was her prim and mincing self again, though there was still a tremor in her voice, and the exalted look in her young eyes was more marked than common. Aunt Rachel In the very exordium of it there was something eminently absurd in the Serjeant's extraordinarily precise, almost mincing pronunciation. Charles Dickens as a Reader Why, it’s all in rags,” cried Burney, and the unhappy-looking beast went mincing on, to be followed by another van labelled “Birds.” Glyn Severn's Schooldays She now put on her most mincing air as she replied: “Agnetta and me’s to play a duet, the ‘Edinburgh Quadrilles,’ and Mr Buckle accompanies on the drum and triangle.” White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Stirling was never addicted to mincing matters, but Weston could not quite repress a grin. The Gold Trail Now, my dear," Aunt Rachel began again, with a return to her customary mincing tones, "you are not far from your own residence. Aunt Rachel Rex paraded the room with mincing steps, and simpered at his own reflection in the looking-glass. Sisters Three Would they imitate her brogue in their thin mincing voices, and if so, how, oh, how would Pixie conduct herself in return? Pixie O'Shaughnessy "Very seasonable," she began in a mincing tone; but suddenly she broke off to exclaim in a voice and accent more natural and spontaneous, "Good gracious, I've seen you before, haven't I?" Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House Abellino, holding himself sideways, advanced with little mincing steps, frequently pointing his pistol as if he were on the point of firing. A Hungarian Nabob Jack Fenn was very funny in his bear-skin costume, and he pawed and scraped as he ambled ludicrously about, and kept time to the music with mincing steps or sprawling strides. Patty Blossom This thing is too important to permit of mincing words or actions, it's a waste of time. The Skylark of Space No, Charlotte"—she turned upon Mrs. Pope—"this is no time for mincing language. Major Vigoureux A short foot gives a mincing walk, while a long one requires the person to bring his body aplomb with the foot before taking the step, which thus resembles a stride. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852 There is no beating about the bush here, and no mincing of phrases. Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees It is true that the Author is any thing but mincing in his expressions and descriptions, but there is nothing in the Sleeping Bard which can give offence to any but the over fastidious. The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell |
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