It just takes two or three pinches of bone powder to find molecular evidence. We have protein sequences from material believed to be in range of half a million years old. We are carefully working our way back in time.
Quotes about pinches (9 Quotes)
Flesh and blood,
You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,
Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian-
Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong-
Would here have kill'd your king, I do forgive thee,
Unnatural though thou art.
I am indifferent if my spinach is leaf or creamed if I work to fatiguing point or spend days doing nothing if I smoke fifty cigarettes a day or none at all if it rains or shines if the dentist hurts, or the shoe pinches, or I secure a bargain.
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, 'Was she not chaste Was she not fair Was she not fruitful' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. 'Yet,' added he, 'none of you can tell where it pinches me.'
It's no good. I started throwing, and when I go down, when I release the ball, it pinches me.
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.