inch (n.)
inch (v.)
inch (adv.)
Ay, every inch a king.
For every inch that is not fool is rogue.
For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell.
I 'll not budge an inch.
I am in earnest. I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard!
One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span,
Because to laugh is proper to the man.
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now; your gambols, your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? Quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.
