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Definition of Pitchiest
1. pitchy [adj] - See also: pitchy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitchiest
Literary usage of Pitchiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama by Rupert Brooke (1916)
"Its flights were to the strangest corners and the pitchiest barathrum of the deep.
Intellect was pressed into the service of the emotions, and the emotions ..."
2. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1845)
"... had the property of dilatation in the dark, that he could see his way through
the most intricate passes during the pitchiest darkness, that he required ..."
3. The Child in Human Progress by George Henry Payne (1916)
"... no labour call me to toil for bread through pitchiest night; What moves my
longing to live is but that well do I know how low the fatherless lies, ..."
4. Arabian Poetry for English Readers by William Alexander Clouston (1881)
"... bread through pitchiest night ; 2. What moves my longing to live is but that
well do I know how low the fatherless lies—how hard the kindness of kin. 3. ..."
5. A Diary of the Siege of the Legations in Peking: During the Summer of 1900 by Nigel Oliphant (1901)
"... are just the people who would go wasting ammunition in the pitchiest darkness,
just because they liked to hear the ..."
6. John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama by Rupert Brooke (1916)
"Its flights were to the strangest corners and the pitchiest barathrum of the deep.
Intellect was pressed into the service of the emotions, and the emotions ..."
7. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1845)
"... had the property of dilatation in the dark, that he could see his way through
the most intricate passes during the pitchiest darkness, that he required ..."
8. The Child in Human Progress by George Henry Payne (1916)
"... no labour call me to toil for bread through pitchiest night; What moves my
longing to live is but that well do I know how low the fatherless lies, ..."
9. Arabian Poetry for English Readers by William Alexander Clouston (1881)
"... bread through pitchiest night ; 2. What moves my longing to live is but that
well do I know how low the fatherless lies—how hard the kindness of kin. 3. ..."
10. A Diary of the Siege of the Legations in Peking: During the Summer of 1900 by Nigel Oliphant (1901)
"... are just the people who would go wasting ammunition in the pitchiest darkness,
just because they liked to hear the ..."
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