When a pitcher starts to talk back, it is a cinch that he is irritated.
It was back in 1905, at the time the club could cinch the pennant by winning one contest, and the flag-assuring game is the hardest one to win.
We had a cinch on getting out, but some geezer led us a fool chase by cutting our cord and steering us around in a circle.
We thought sure we had a cinch on the coin several hours ago!
Whenever a man's got a dead sure cinch like that, it's a drag and not a pull!
We thought we had a cinch on getting out by way of this cord and so we followed that.
Cora came out of the house and stood looking on, while Mose tightened the cinch again, and grasping the pommel with both hands put his toe in the stirrup.
The sawbuck followed it, the cinch flying high so that it should go clear.
As Mose roweled him he kicked with both hind feet as if to tear the cinch from his belly.
That I'm a-going to cinchher with a priest an' license?
And he said it was a cinch that Pershing realy wrote it on acct.
It's a close race and getting closer all the time and no matter which one of 'em finishes first it looks like a mortal cinch that neither winner nor loser is going to be here to enjoy his little triumph afterwards.
It was a cinch any jury would have sided with his widow.
And whatever else might come of it, it was a cinch that it would squeeze the last little breath of life out of the Norcross management for good and all.
Once more the clerk shook the names out of his box and within half an hour the district attorney had the very jury he wanted—every man of them interested in the cattle business and ready to cinch a rustler as they would kill a rattlesnake.
Taking into account the natural limitations of age they play golf very well, but they play a cinch even better--and harder.
Now it is a cinch to handicap two women or two men if they are to play as partners, but to handicap a woman and a man is quite another matter, and all recognised rules go by the board.
Old Martin cackled and turned his cigar round and round in the corner of his mouth--a wolf when it comes to a cinch bet.
Bobbie Cinch continued for some moments to coolly observe his cards.
Then he died, and young Bobbie Cinch came to New York in order to more clearly demonstrate that there was a good deal of fun in twenty-two million dollars.
Well, believe me, that trail was a cinch and I could follow it as easy as a clothes line.
He could lay the saddle-blanket smooth and unwrinkled, slap the saddle on and cinch it without fixing it either upon the withers or upon the rump of his long-suffering mount.
He is blinded again, again seized by the ear, the cinch pulled very tight, and the rider mounts into the saddle.
But it lost the race, all right, an' the cinch he had on breakin' the record.
He wrote himself down on the register of the New American as John Armitage, Cinch Tight, Montana, and took a suite of rooms high up, with an outlook that swept Pennsylvania Avenue.
Say, John, when I saw Cinch Tight, Montana, written on the register down there it increased my circulation seven beats!
But these two will gocinch to cinch all the way, like two brothers --like you and me.
With mechanical readiness the guide alighted from his horse, loosened the cinch on the pack-horse, and disclosed the usual camp-bed.
The fortune of the McReadys lies over there, at the foot of that peak, and now's our chance to cinch it.
Hawley will steal this claim if he can, but it's a cinch he'll do it in such a way the law can't get a hold on him.
If ever a fellow was true to his friends, it's a cinch that it's Motor Matt.
If it hadn't been for Matt's plucky getaway from that hole in the rocks, it's a cinch dad would probably have been down in the old shaft yet.
I'll be darned if I know what you came for; but it's a cinch you didn't come just to be riding on the cars.
He did not know whether he ought to unsaddle it or leave it as it was; but on second thought, he loosened the cinch in kindness to the animal, and took off its bridle, so that it could eat without being hampered by the bit.
He moved over beside Rex an unbuckling the cinch of Beatrice's saddle, pulled it sullenly off.
Keith turned and readjusted the cinch on his saddle, though it was not loose enough to matter, and before he had finished Sir Redmond rode up.
Now, put your saddle on that there Rex horse, and cinchit tight!
It gives them a cinch on the best of the range, and all the water.
They can lease land from the government, fence it--and they've got a cinch on it as long as the lease lasts.
An' to make a dead cinch out of a good gamblin' proposition, I looked her in the eyes.
The story of the way Mr. Lungy Addison committed grand larceny in getting away with the Mortal Cinch mine is one that, falling from the mouth, as it does, of a person not learned in the law and its beauties, must be true.
