Citations:mince

English citations of mince

• [1]

  Bring in to a groaning board half a dozen officers, a well-dressed young lady doing the patriotic behind the coffee-pot — they will mince like school-girls!

• [2]

  Mince like a maiden bride. — Nichoias Breton.

• [3]

  He may take strides as long as Sir William Grant, it is true, or he may mince like the miss who has been taught by mamma that no young lady's shoe should ever be seen beyond the verge and limit of her flounce [...]