The other girl nodded, then, pinning on her hat, the two left the building.
"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"
Pauline Lester
She wondered if he had ring-barked the tree-score its living green wood-if he had killed it, and in turn it had killed him, pinning him to the earth with its great bulk of dead and rotting timber.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Smarting with the agony of the blow, and concentrating into that one moment all his feelings of rage, scorn, and indignation, Nicholas sprang upon him, wrested the weapon from his hand, and pinning him by the throat, beat the ruffian till he roared for mercy.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes