All the infections that the sun sucks up / From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him / By inch-meal a disease!
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Inchmeal
//ˈɪnt͡ʃ.miːl//
Synonyms for "inchmeal" (27 found)
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Related words (13)
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3 translations across 2 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- малко по малко adv (little by little)
Russian
2 entries- дю́йм за дю́ймом adv (little by little)
- ма́ло-пома́лу adv (little by little)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Those who are not thus slippery in the tail, are light of finger; and of these the most pernicious are those who beggar you inchmeal.
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I am a sanguinary murderer of time, and would kill him inchmeal just now.
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He could be as patient as Death, that inchmeal stalker of his prey; he could be as ruthless as the sea, and incredibly generous upon occasion.
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