How To Use Cinch In A Sentence

  • That blue racing car is a cinch to win the next race.
  • The wide planing hull lends stability for easy shots down tough rapids, and the boat's upturned bow makes punching through big holes a cinch.
  • Everything from tobacco sacks and cigarette papers to a spare cinch and a rope, from a change of clothes to a picture of his family or his girl, from old letters and reading material to a marlinespike, was kept in it. This Calder Range
  • John, yo 'oncinch thet saddle, an' then, Horatius Ezek'l, yo 'an' David Golieth, taken the hoss to the barn an 'see't he's hayed an' watered 'fore yo 'come back. The Gold Girl
  • The station is so sprawling and packed with vehicles that it took longer than usual for Discovery to be tightly cinched down. Discovery arrives at space station
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  • The method ultimately includes the step of cinching the band about the joint.
  • Seemingly every palazzo had a party, but the winner was a cinch.
  • My examination was a cinch and I passed easily.
  • Taking his saddle and pad from one horse, Ty threw it onto a buckskin and pulled the surcingle through the cinch ring. Calder Born, Calder Bred
  • Cinching : Practice of pulling the end of a roll to tighten it. It's not recommended.
  • If you know the child well enough, buying that perfect gift is a cinch.
  • In the mid-seventeenth century, Spain began to import the bitter bark of cinchona trees from Peru and Ecuador as an antidote for malaria.
  • On the coasts of New Andalusia, the cuspa is considered as a kind of cinchona; and we were assured, that some Aragonese monks, who had long resided in the kingdom of New Grenada, recognised this tree from the resemblance of its leaves to those of the real Peruvian bark-tree. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
  • He turned to see Umber staring back with his mouth cinched tight. End of Time
  • Kemp walked to his horse, tightened the cinch on his saddle and walked it past men standing around talking.
  • It sounds difficult, but compared to full-time work it was a cinch.
  • It's a cinch to make your own ‘convenience-type’ food.
  • _Cinchona_ supplies us with quinine, while _Ipecacuanha_ produces ipecac, which is an emetic and purgative. All About Coffee
  • Cinchona bark contains two alkaloids, cinchonia and quina, to which its active properties are due; the former is best obtained from gray bark, the latter from yellow bark. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • Without any reference to the greater or less force of medical theories as to the efficacy of cinchona bark, I now only take an experienced and practical view, well knowing that the sufferings of many millions of poor and rich natives, especially in the jungle districts, are yearly very great, and the mortality quite enormous from remittent and intermittent fevers, by far the greater part of which would be immensely relieved, or wholly cured, by the free use of cinchona bark. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • I was a bit of a rockabilly in those days, 50's gear, backcombed hair (it was cool, honest), and I used to wear circle skirts with tight polo-necked tops and a very, very cinched waist.
  • She didn't slide up into the saddle, she jerked the cinch and used her spurs before I'd even pitched.
  • The crew in the back of the aircraft was cinching down their safety belts and shoulder harnesses.
  • Hereditary and constitutional taints of sycosis, scrofula, psora, syphilis; mercurianism, cinchonism, iodism and many other forms of chronic poisoning. Nature Cure
  • The galette was a cinch to put together- blitz some nuts and sugar in the Cuisinart and sprinkle on the puff pastry, place sliced fruit on top of sugar mixture, brush some egg wash around the rim, sprinkle the top with additional sugar and bake. Archive 2007-05-01
  • It turns out that picture-perfect springerle are a cinch to make Joy to the World! Wunderbar Cookies
  • The night I came home to find my CD player broken and all my wine drunk cinched it.
  • It features the new Bouquet Bunch stamp set from the Summer Mini and lining up the topiary was a cinch with the new clear mount stamps. Summer Mini Catalog Sneak Peek - Day 2
  • There are two kinds of leashes: clip-ons, which can be removed from the tool, and permanently attached cinch-downs.
  • The L.A. Dodgers are a cinch to win the division.
  • The saddle is fastened by pliant ropes, or broad belts of leather, called in the West "cinches," to fasten which securely requires some skill, as they pass through a circular ring and are secured by a hitch or peculiar knot that holds well and can be unfastened with a quick jerk. Healthful Sports for Boys
  • The first man cinches his arms around his opponent's waist from behind, bucks forward and then simply dead-lifts him up and drops backward with him, tracing an arc of perhaps 140 degrees so that they land together, their weight on the neck of the man being thrown. Has UFC Found Its Transcendent Star?
  • As soon as I come out of the show ring I have to immediately cinch up the saddle.
  • She had her dress cinched at the waist with a belt.
  • Question 5 will be a cinch if you are a bit of a telly watcher.
  • Sadly, you can't see my sparkly deely-bobbers (actually, I suspect I'm wearing stripy tiger-ears in that photo) or my purple fishnet stockings or my big gold lame frou-frou skirt worn in homage to the goddess Belinda Carlisle or my darling spike-heeled yellow patent leather Mary Janes or my waist-cinching wide-elastic belt or my red lace push-up cleavage-inducing nipples-revealing bra, but take it from me – they were there; they were there with bells on. Bluemeany Diary Entry
  • The south facade is a curiously flat and blocky affair, only partly leavened by the awkward, two-bay, single-column upper arcade, the unsatisfactorily cinched lower entablature, the four eccentric little ground-floor windows, and the raised platform supporting it all. Archive 2009-03-01
  • The cinchona tree contains more than 20 alkaloids of which quinine and quinidine are the most important.
  • The cast-iron grate can hold 18 burgers, and one-touch ignition makes lighting the fire a cinch.
  • I can only imagine what you are sensing as you, someone who works for and still has faith in the efforts to find commonalities for progress, watch the tightening of the power cumberbund, onethat iscinchingup aroundour waists. G20 Pbgh; Police State Ghost-Town; Pics and Video of Tear-gassing
  • You've got a cinch-nobody to think of but your own precious self -- an 'a lot of young hoodlums makin' eyes at you an 'tellin' you how beautiful your eyes are. CHAPTER I
  • Accessories include wedged shoes in crocodile, aged leather belts cinched around jackets and blazers recalling Dr. Zhivago.
  • The cinchona tree contains more than 20 alkaloids of which quinine and quinidine are the most important.
  • The stable man worked quickly, putting a velvet saddle blanket on, then the saddle, which he cinched securely.
  • The stereochemistry of quinine is formidable: it has four chiral centres, and thus 16 stereoisomers - of which only one is the natural ingredient of cinchona bark.
  • Cinchona bark contains two alkaloids, cinchonia and quina, to which its active properties are due; the former is best obtained from gray bark, the latter from yellow bark. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • It was tucked into his jeans under a black belt cinched tight around his slim waist.
  • The yellow, among which figure the _Cinchona calisaya, lancifolia, condaminea, micrantha, pubescens, _ etc., are placed in the first rank: the red, orange and gray are less esteemed. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873
  • It made broadcasting from Antarctica seem like a cinch.
  • If NUMA could raise the Titanic, the Doria should be a cinch. SERPENT
  • Waves of applause greeted a cinched blue silk jacket with a shawl collar scattered with silver embroidery, worn over a citrine skirt in mille-feuille layers of stiff organdie.
  • Cinchona bark had long been used by indigenous people as a remedy for fevers, and at the end of the seventeenth century, a British physician, in one of the earliest controlled studies of a drug, proved that its effect was unique to what was then known as tertian fever. MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
  • And from there, getting the ménage up and running will be a lead-pipe cinch. THE SAVAGE GIRL
  • Quinine is derived from cinchona bark, and mixed with lime.
  • `Sure," Bob said, his throat somewhat dry, `It'll be a cinch. THREE IN ONE
  • In the 17th Century, Quinah (Cinchona sp.) was introduced into the therapeutics, of paludism, this being a major contribution to universal pharmacopoeia. Chapter 12
  • The true cinchona barks, containing quinine, quinidine, and cinchonine, are distinguished from the false by their splintery-fibrous texture, the latter being pre-eminently corky. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
  • Compared to a strip of land in Hungary, it's a cinch.
  • Instead, you pull your jeans up high and cinch them with a belt.
  • Leather snapped against leather as Reno tied off the mare's cinch with smooth, strong motions. ONLY YOU
  • While I had to purchase it, it was VERY easy to setup, and recording was a cinch that is actually the first time that I have ever typed the word cinch ... weird. Doing Research: A Tool Inventory « open thinking
  • There have been at least three noted galenicals which appeared in the middle of the 17th and 18th centuries, used an infusion of Cinchona bark as a remedy for agues and fevers.
  • When cinchonine is distilled with solid potassium hydrate, it yields pyrrol and bases of both the pyridine and quinoline series. Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883
  • After quickly brushing Mesa, I began to saddle him up, carefully tightening the cinch.
  • I knew that I was prodding him deeply and severely, thrusting the iron into his soul with as little compunction as a Mexican _charo_ exerts when he "cinches" a heavily burdened _burro_. Princess Zara
  • The two men stepped out of the showers simultaneously and cinched towels at their athletically chiseled waists. Larger Than Lyfe
  • Some patients are hypersensitive to quinine and even small doses may give rise to cinchonism.
  • Her white linen chiton was cinched at the waist by a thin silver belt, and her spiky orange hair was even spikier than usual. PERSEPHONE THE PHONY
  • It deserves notice that he experimented with the most boasted substances - cinchona, aconite, mercury, bryonia, belladonna.
  • She stood there cinching her robe until Lester came out of the kitchen.
  • The corseted bodice cinched in my waist slightly so it was defined.
  • I've cinched my belts inward relentlessly, drilling new holes as the slimming down process did its job.
  • Repeating the word ‘field’ in the second clause, however, Warner balances it with form, alliteratively cinching together the natural ‘field’ with its scientific meanings.
  • Sign up for a free account and you can post "cinches," create albums, track your favorites, and share them on a host of social network sites, including Twitter. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • Running both Germany and UK will be a cinch for her.
  • Susie's domination here, however, cinched her first-place victory and secured her a place in fitness history as the only three-time winner.
  • Quinine after or during the operation of the pills, in large doses every two or three hours, until deafness or cinchonism ensued, completed the cure. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
  • Waves of applause greeted a cinched blue silk jacket with a shawl collar scattered with silver embroidery, worn over a citrine skirt in mille-feuille layers of stiff organdie.
  • The label's Italian designer, Stefano Pilati, delivered bulky overcoats cinched tight at the waist - sometimes with what appeared to be fringed scarves - and suits with drop-crotched harem pants and long shirts with tails of tiny pleats that emerged, flirtily, from beneath the jackets. StarTribune.com rss feed
  • It is stated that incomplete examinations have detected _cinchonine_ in the bark. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
  • The men now added their coats, and Wemple, for additional traction, unsaddled the roan, and spread the cinches, stirrup leathers, saddle blanket, and bridle in the way of the wheels. WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
  • The splined interface accepts the rotor much like freehub accepts the cassette - just slide the rotor on and cinch-down using a single lock-ring.
  • `Norris himself is away: Java, making up his mind about cinchona futures. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
  • There are baggy cinched-ankle satin pants, sexy cotton pinafores, and embroidered T-shirts, perforated tulle overlays, crystal beaded dresses and sheer shell tops.
  • The zip gaped open an inch at his waist, which was cinched in far too tightly by a fake crocodile belt.
  • Pretty by itself, the arrangement also makes a nice backdrop for a bowl offering party favors - this one a little linen bag filled with potpourri and cinched with a satin ribbon.
  • Pilati sent out bulky overcoats cinched tight at the waist - sometimes with what appeared to be fringed scarves - and suits with drop-crotched harem pants and long shirts with tails of tiny pleats that emerged, flirtily, from beneath the jackets. Daytondailynews.com - News
  • My examination was a cinch and I passed easily.
  • [61] More than a score of species of the tree from which this bark is obtained grow in the higher eastern slopes of the Andes, but a very large part is obtained from the tree, _Cinchona calisaya_. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges
  • I'm now in the sad position of not having a pair of pants left that don't require a degree of cinching under my belt.
  • The program is a cinch to install.
  • Once I met the challenge of getting there for under $500, keeping costs down was a cinch.
  • Now the two acids last mentioned are simple substitution products of pyridine, oxycinchomeronic acid being a pyridine-dicarboxylic acid, C_ {5} H_ {2} N (COOH) _ {3}, and cinchomeronic acid, a pyridine-dicarboxylic acid, C_ {5} H_ {3} N (COOH) _ {2}. Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883
  • Dr. Farr detected a considerable amount of cinchonine in it, but was prevented from completing his examination. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • The corpsman and doc told me I was lucky that I had worn my cranial and had cinched the chinstrap.
  • Adam had checked his cinch then stepped into the stirrup before swinging on to the chestnut stallion.
  • And from there, getting the ménage up and running will be a lead-pipe cinch. THE SAVAGE GIRL
  • He instructed me on how to correctly place the saddle and cinch it up.
  • `With two more steps to go before we can cinch the case against Gino, if he is mixed up in this. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
  • She had tinted blond hair, large glasses, a blue dress cinched at the waist by a wide glossy belt.
  • She rolled out of bed and had just cinched the belt on her bathrobe when she heard tapping on her window.
  • The rider, in this space, takes a hurried look at the "cinches," slips the whip back on the wrist, and whispers a few words into the neck of the big yellow horse who is in fine fettle for this day and hour. Janey Canuck in the West
  • He's a cinch, and he will add luster to one of the best classes ever.
  • Hereditary and constitutional taints of sycosis, scrofula, psora, syphilis; mercurianism, cinchonism, iodism and many other forms of chronic poisoning. Nature Cure
  • Waves of applause greeted a cinched blue silk jacket with a shawl collar scattered with silver embroidery, worn over a citrine skirt in mille-feuille layers of stiff organdie.
  • En el siglo XVII se introduce la quina (Cinchona sp.) a la teraputica del paludismo, siendo este nuestro mximo aporte a la farmacopea universal. Chapter 9
  • You would think that occupying my time would be a cinch.
  • This spring, Ms. Taylor likes the look of army-inspired trench coats, which feature details such as a cinched collar and a style of stitching called trapunto. Spring Coats: How to Stay Dry With Style
  • You'd think that this story would be a cinch to pull off for the king of the swashbucklers, but Niblo's direction is so unimaginative that it was all I could do to stay awake.
  • I’m going to town to see a specialist about this damned cinchonism, Linda. The Fashion in Shrouds
  • That cinched it: I knew I was going to college because I couldn't exactly give up a scholarship, right?
  • Cleaning silicone toys is a cinch: you can boil them or throw them in the dishwasher.
  • The club is located just around the corner, so getting there is a cinch.
  • It is unquestionably true that, with great strength, the game will be won nine times out of ten with the No-trump declaration, but in every such case it is absolutely "cinched" by the Heart or Royal call. Auction of To-day
  • He was impressed with cinchona, the South American tree bark that was the first effective treatment for malaria.
  • Quinine is a natural extract of the cinchona tree, and was used to treat malaria.
  • I have always wanted to go to Australia ... this cinches it! Australian Humor
  • Leather snapped against leather as Reno tied off the mare's cinch with smooth, strong motions. ONLY YOU
  • The catechu which is obtained in India from the Bonga differs from that obtained from the _Acacia Catechu_ and is a tonic analogous to rhatany and cinchona. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
  • He cinched the belt of his knapsack around his shoulders.
  • This quote is what cinches my position.
  • One of my favorite ginger uses is in this tangy salad dressing that's a cinch to make.
  • While washing Redtail 213, a wash team had on protective gear: splash-proof goggles, gloves, and cranials with cinched chinstraps.
  • Hahnemann carried out tests on himself with extracts of cinchona bark, which contains quinine, and found it caused fever.
  • But instead he pushes himself on, shrugging back into his parka, cinching the hood, donning one mitten and then the other with the help of his teeth.
  • The name cinchona is derived from that of the wife of a viceroy of Peru, who is said to have taken the drug from South America to Europe in Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
  • But any sensible reptile at Cable Beach wouldn't dare mess with David when they see the crocodile skin belt cinching his trousers!
  • Quinine, a famous malaria treatment, and quinidine, an antiarrhythmic medication, are made from the bark of the cinchona tree. Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible
  • How about a more traditional stock saddle, with a hand-tooled leather skirt and a rope cinch?
  • She poked a few more holes in the belt and then cinched it around her waist.
  • Mexican saddle, cinched it tight without mercy, then mounted with a slam over of a leather-trousered leg, let the almost crazy horse go like the wind, and if he slackened his speed, spurs or "quirt," perhaps both, drove him on again. Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
  • At one point I pulled her in completely and dismounted on the pretext of tightening a cinch. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • Whenever Declan woke, his anxiety was worse than the day before, as if acid seethed in his belly and barbed wire cinched around his heart. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
  • Me: You know that little slotted plastic disc thing that cinches the bag closed? Gene's true calling ... is calling
  • At one point I pulled her in completely and dismounted on the pretext of tightening a cinch. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • The eminent lawyer, his calculating eye still on Garrison, then proceeded with much forensic ability and virile imagination to lay the full beauties of the "cinch" before him. Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course
  • Homeopathy was developed in the 18th century by Dr Samuel Hahnemann after he discovered that small amounts of cinchona bark, the treatment for malaria, caused malaria-like fevers when he took it while healthy.
  • She grabbed a belt from the dresser, cinching it tight to keep the jeans up.
  • There's something about that turned-up collar and the cinched in waist and the shape of a trench coat that flatters every single woman.
  • After adjusting her buoyancy compensator and cinching her weight belt, she and Rodgers made a final check of each other's equipment. INCA GOLD
  • There are still cinchona trees in the area, though modern medicine has rendered them useless.
  • And from there, getting the ménage up and running will be a lead-pipe cinch. THE SAVAGE GIRL
  • January 15th, 2010 at 10: 43 pm tombaker says: crazypup1-4! tinnnnnnn-HUT! groom that chucknorris beard, soldier! and straigh-ten out that ninja do-rag and cinch it down to regulation tightness!! back in line!! this is gravely serious mission young man – do NOT let me catch you dozing on patrol again – IS THAT UN-DER-STOOOOOD!?!? Think Progress » Wall Street Investors Lavish Scott Brown’s Campaign With Money, Get Out The Vote Operations
  • I’ve actually done that and while I would not call it easy, compared with the hoops people go through to purify practically any other protein getting pure hemoglobin is a stone cinch. Balloon Juice » 2006 » March
  • Don't you just love this long cinched white jacket?
  • There never yet has been a substitute found for cinchona bark and its salts, as an antiperiodic and tonic. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • He gave her one look before he finished cinching the saddle.
  • It was a cinch getting insurance for me because I was 30, even though I had never driven unaccompanied.
  • He pulled the white gloves from the leather belt that cinched his tunic at his waist and tugged them over his hands.
  • It will be remembered that in some of the _Cinchonaceæ_, e.g. _Mussænda_, _Pinckneya_, _Calycophyllum_, one or more of the calycine lobes are normally dilated and petaloid, the others remaining small and comparatively inconspicuous. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • He had then developed, or said he had developed, severe cinchonism, which was a peculiar condition inasmuch as any doctor consulted had only the patient’s word for the symptoms experienced — blindness, shakiness, headache, congestion of the middle ear. The Fashion in Shrouds
  • The pumpkin layer is all done in a food processor which made the labor and cleaning up a cinch and the pecan layer is a few ingredients whisked together in a bowl -- also, very easy. TWD: TWOFER PIE
  • At the time, Hull had racked up 27 goals and he seemed a cinch to break his own record of 50 goals set in 1962.
  • Leather snapped against leather as Reno tied off the mare's cinch with smooth, strong motions. ONLY YOU
  • Malaria victims were treated with quinine, an extract from the bark of the cinchona tree.
  • _Cinchonidine_, when heated with potassium hydrate, yields quinoline also, and with nitric acid the same products as cinchonine. Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883
  • Ivy cinched the belt high and tight over her slacks and vest, turning herself into a chic urban huntress. Three Stages of Amazement
  • She’s making a nasty face, her risorius muscles cinching her face tight around her nose while she dries her hands on her dark skirt. Diary
  • Life should be a cinch for a wine-loving pop star.
  • Since finishing eighth in his first NASCAR start (a Nationwide race in November 2004 that cinched a full-time ride at JGR), Hamlin has four wins and nine top-10s in 10 starts with a worst of 13th at Darlington. Denny Hamlin's mastery of Darlington bodes well for career
  • Tiny Tape, a helmet compatible hood and a side- cinching drawcord minimize weight and bulk.
  • Tack is not defined, but presumably means saddle and bridle and normal accessories, such as girths, cinches and saddle pads.
  • If you need further convincing, perhaps this will cinch the deal.
  • Trucker Guy refused another and left me forty-six cents as a tip, which cinched my feelings of ill will toward him. How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf
  • The youngest was only 4, but his stirrups are cinched up to accommodate his little legs and there are spurs on the heels of his boots.
  • Clothing droops and drifts on his small body; faded denim pants slip despite cinching with a braided belt.
  • What we learned at the time from some of the world's leading security experts was that breaking into even the most sensitive sites on the Internet was a cinch.
  • `With two more steps to go before we can cinch the case against Gino, if he is mixed up in this. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
  • But because of cultural differences and a dearth of long-range radio transmitters those initiatives also ended up being small-time, such as fake surrender orders from their commanders dropped on Japanese troops in Burma or rumors spread that their quinine, which comes from the cinchona, was made from the worthless bark of other trees. Wild Bill Donovan
  • If I'm riding hunches one and two, I just got to ride this cinch, which is number three. Chapter IX
  • John's completed saddles are 100% ready to ride with their custom mohair cinches, latigo and stirrups.
  • Okay Mark, that cinches it: You have no taste in music.
  • `Sure," Bob said, his throat somewhat dry, `It'll be a cinch. THREE IN ONE
  • Joshua cinched the girth on his horse's saddle, pulling it tight and swinging upon the animal's broad back with ease.
  • The wasp waist, achieved with the help of a corset and a tightly cinched belt, became popular at the end of the nineteenth century.
  • ~ -- Picric acid forms insoluble salts with many of the alkaloids, and picric acid may be determined in the following manner: -- To the solution of picric acid, or a picrate, add a solution of sulphate of cinchonine acidulated with H_ {2} SO_ {4}. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
  • Just treat me nice, Omnus, and you'll be a cinch to win that position.
  • “He called it cinchonism, and Mercer’s still laid up. The Fashion in Shrouds
  • The stereochemistry of quinine is formidable: it has four chiral centres, and thus 16 stereoisomers - of which only one is the natural ingredient of cinchona bark.
  • Hereditary and constitutional taints of sycosis, scrofula, psora, syphilis; mercurianism, cinchonism, iodism and many other forms of chronic poisoning. Nature Cure
  • Fortunately, the group was traveling through the very region that is home to the fabled cinchona tree—the "fever tree," as the natives called it—whose bark is the source of quinine, used as a treatment. An Expedition Without End
  • Play up your figure with fitted tops, spaghetti-strap blouses and dresses, jackets with cinched waists and sleeveless tanks with round, high necklines.
  • The zip gaped open an inch at his waist, which was cinched in far too tightly by a fake crocodile belt.
  • I could probably do it in a "cinch" at some other point in my life and if circumstances were different. Hemopoetic Diary Entry
  • If Mercer’s cinchonism was fictitious, why should he have gone to London on Friday to see a specialist? The Fashion in Shrouds
  • Diamond file, tugged at the hem of her waist-cinching bouclé jacket, and strode down the wainscoted halls of Hallingby and Hallingby. One Flight Up
  • Writing is hard work; talking is a cinch.
  • Artificial human gills could make free-diving a cinch for even the puniest pair of lungs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then a large cream-colored Mercedes convertible pulled up in front, and Willow got out wearing a short white poofy dress with big bright flower patterns, cinched at the waist with a thick pink belt and a matching pink hair band. Famous
  • -- This belongs to the cinchona family, and produces the fruit called genipap or marmalade box. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
  • The suggestion that it was too much for the cop to ask Gates, a fragile, elderly, easily frightened man, to step out onto the porch, but instead he and a bunch of other cops should have forced his way into the house, kind of cinches it. The Volokh Conspiracy » Gates Charges Dropped:
  • You would think that it would be a cinch to give an exciting or glamorous, or appropriately poetic, account of 36 hours in Rome.
  • After a lackluster performance, it was a cinch for the judges to send him home.
  • If we closed our eyes, we could almost see men with mutton-chop whiskers and stem expressions, and women with cinched waists and skirts with floor-sweeping trains.
  • The men now added their coats, and Wemple, for additional traction, unsaddled the roan, and spread the cinches, stirrup leathers, saddle blanket, and bridle in the way of the wheels. WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
  • The base is inserted into the top of the carrying handle and cinched down with a thumbscrew that goes through a hole in the top of the carrying handle.
  • This is not the most sophisticated-looking dish but it's a cinch to prepare and tastes terrific.
  • In 1735, Joseph de Jussieu, a French botanist, collected detailed information about the cinchona trees.
  • All this makes vote fraud a cinch.
  • There was no manual with the beta version, but the package as a whole is a cinch to use.

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