Example Sentences

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"Funiculi funicula Vincente y Blasco Ibanez vermicelli sul campo della gloria risotto!" said the second waiter clinchingly, and scored a technical knockout.

From The Adventures of Sally by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

He's dead," said Mr. Prohack clinchingly, "but he's left me ten thousand a year.

From Mr. Prohack by Bennett, Arnold

I guess Leon knows the way to Varney’s Paintpot anyhow,” he advanced clinchingly.

From A Scout of To-day by Hornibrook, Isabel

"And we know you haven't got a tail at all," Maria added, clinchingly.

From The Extra Day by Blackwood, Algernon