Assertion: napoleon's emperor | /r/CapableOf | pinch his intimates
Facets:
value: by the tip of the ear
type: MANNER
value: in his moments of good humour
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: M. de Bourrienne, whose excellent Memoirs I have read with the greatest pleasure, says somewhere that the Emperor in his moments of good humour would pinch his intimates by the tip of the ear; I have my own experience that he pinched the whole of it, and often both ears at once; and that with a master hand.