| 单词 | pair of tongs |
| 例句 | He brought the colt around to the front of the gate, had the assistant place a pair of tongs on the horse’s lips to distract him, then had him backed into the stall. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Five carried rifles, but the last held a long pair of tongs with tips that formed a large black circle at the end. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He flips the metal he’s shaping with a pair of tongs and continues hammering. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z At once, her huge well-trained jaws started chewing away on it like a pair of tongs. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z He transferred prints from a tray of chemicals to the water bath in the last container and gently swished them with a pair of tongs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Poe appears, wearing a face mask, a scrub cap, and gloves, and swings a pair of tongs in the air. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z From one, filled with boiling water, she fished out three metal plates with a pair of tongs and clanged them onto the table. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She removed it with a pair of tongs and carried it dripping into the living room. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She MacGyvered it to the sink with a pair of tongs, a Mason jar and a roll of tape. The inflatable pool is the official symbol of America’s lost summer 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z First up is a documentary interviewing the cast, crew and fans followed by a new Christmas episode in which Mark buys Dobby a pair of tongs as a Christmas pressie. TV highlights Christmas Eve 2010-12-20T02:05:00Z When the sculpture is working, she'll be hitting herself on the lips with a pair of tongs, ruining the careful paintwork. Michael Landy: patron saint of destruction 2013-04-29T17:39:01Z Pierce, better known to his TV fans as Shangela, snapped a pair of tongs as if he were playing castanets and executed a high kick to show off his neon-yellow sneakers. Shangela Cooks Wiener Schnitzel While ‘Quaranqueening’ 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z There are few things more useful than a pair of tongs. 9 essential tools for cooking all the vegetables 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z When the tortilla is charred, use a pair of tongs to flip it over and expose the other side to direct heat. How to warm up corn tortillas, once and for all 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z In a different embrace “the thighs are used like a pair of tongs.” Books of The Times: The Kama Sutra, Newly Translated 2012-01-31T17:03:33Z All you'll need for this quick hack is a piece of aluminum foil and a pair of tongs. The absolute easiest trick to cleaning your grill 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z A good pair of tongs is a grilling essential. Throw the ultimate cookout this summer with these must-have grilling tools 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z And then the main thing is to just get yourself a decent spatula, a big spatula, and a pair of tongs. "I don't like chicken breasts": Alton Brown on what to grill, from skirt steak to bone marrow 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z Similarly, many New York bartenders still work barehanded, dropping limes into gin-and-tonics but keeping a pair of tongs handy for visits by inspectors, said Aaron Smith, executive director of the U.S. In California, chefs fight for bare-hand contact 2014-03-24T13:05:20Z Include a pair of tongs, spoons for the dips, small plates, and napkins for serving, too.. A 1-2-3 guide to building the perfect charcuterie board 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Do you have a good pair of tongs? Heat up the grill and shake out the picnic blanket — summer’s here! 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Some customers roll down their windows just far enough to stick out a pair of tongs. Drive-Throughs Are Now a Lifeline for Fast-Food Chains 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z With an up-to-date vaccine record and a pair of tongs to aid letterbox drops, David is considering launching his 10th election campaign this year, despite announcing his retirement from politics in 2017. The election losers who keep coming back for more 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z In one swift motion, Kenny proffered a box of rolls and hovered a pair of tongs over the selection. “Son of Friedman” 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Grill the potatoes for 1 to 2 minutes, then rotate using a pair of tongs to get good grill marks. Grilling? Mayo may be your new best friend 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull grabbed a pair of tongs and rolled sausages on a grill on election day morning as he mingled with voters at a Sydney polling booth. 'Democracy sausage' snags Australia's official word of 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z He watched the beef sizzle and flame, holding a pair of tongs in one hand, a blow poke in the other, smiling his trademark wide smile, clearly enjoying the “very Flintstones” moment. Curtis Stone dishes on Gwen, his new butcher's shop and restaurant opening soon in Hollywood 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Bring a pot of water to a rolling boil and, using a pair of tongs or rubber gloves, add the nettles to the pot. Stinging nettles are in season. Here's what to do with them 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z I asked, as I leaned back to make room for the waiter, who was laying lettuce on my plate with a pair of tongs. The Terrible Beauty of Brain Surgery 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z A good pair of tongs is key for turning and rearranging food as it cooks on the grill. 6 Tools You Need for Summer Grilling 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z I grabbed the rogue with a pair of tongs and tossed it over to Apple to analyze for broken meta data or anything else that would prevent it from being recognized by iOS. Apple Does Whatever It Takes To Address Problem 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z A pair of tongs are then put through the finished hub end, while the wings are punched and trimmed under the steam hammer, and subsequently finished by hand. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The commissary came from the guard-house with a long pair of tongs, and receiving them open, read them at the longest possible distance. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z One of the smallest man-figures I ever saw; shaped like a pair of tongs, and hardly above five feet in all. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z Forceps, for′seps, n. a pair of tongs, pincers, or pliers for holding anything difficult to be held with the hand.—adj. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z These rivers, after running close together for a long distance, spread apart, like the two arms of a pair of tongs, at their mouths, making an egg-shaped peninsula which extended far into the main river. The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel 2012-01-02T03:00:21.167Z The toes can be widely separated, or brought close together, like a pair of tongs. Through a Microscope Something of the Science Together with many Curious Observations Indoor and Out and Directions for a Home-made Microscope. 2011-12-29T03:00:20.733Z Of course I told him he was a horrid wretch, and I would not touch him with a pair of tongs. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z Staten Island, of course, is the borough that so many New Yorkers regard as something to be held away, as if with a pair of tongs. Big City: Hoping a Project Will Lift Staten Island 2011-12-03T16:45:57Z He wouldn't touch one of them with a pair of tongs. A Mere Chance, Vol. 3 of 3 A Novel 2011-11-24T03:00:45.990Z Dyspepsia means indigestion, and I can digest a pair of tongs—no matter at what hour I should eat it. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z A hot brick is then to be grasped in a pair of tongs, and held about a foot beneath the nose. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z But the money they wouldn't touch with a pair of tongs. A Humble Enterprise 2011-10-29T02:00:12.483Z The man bent a thin stick double, and using it as a pair of tongs, held some indistinguishable object over the flames before him. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z Two stoves and their pipes, one pot-hook and its accessories, one pair of andirons, one pair of tongs, and one shovel 4th. How to Collect a Doctor Bill 2011-10-15T02:00:30.593Z Some thought he was reluctant to exhibit his legs in their primitive and unclothed simplicity, in respect they have an unhappy resemblance to a pair of tongs. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z One held a stick, another a pair of tongs, a third a poker. The Strange Story Book 2011-09-15T02:00:13.747Z It was the purchase price of an immortal soul, and I wouldn't touch it with a pair of tongs. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z Why, there have been times I’ve seen him when you wouldn’t pick him up off the road with a pair of tongs.” The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z Sylvia shivered slightly, and bending down, took up a pair of tongs to put some more coals on the expiring fire. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z That moment the eleven brothers made eleven pairs of tongs of themselves; their father, the old Gruagach, was the twelfth pair. Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 2011-06-29T02:00:25.760Z There they met the king's smith, who was going to the smithy, and had a great pair of tongs in his hand. Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales 2011-06-13T02:00:24.710Z Captain Bob was spinning around like a dislocated pair of tongs, and smirked like a happy fiend. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 2011-04-21T02:00:47.647Z The lover seized a pair of tongs and broke the head of the angry parent, who was cured with great difficulty, and who still bears the marks of the wound. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z As to the mattress and the spring-mattress, we could not have touched them with a pair of tongs, covered as they were with spots of grease. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z Mrs. van Does, holding a little pair of tongs in her double-jointed fingers, laid a couple of stones carefully on the velvet: “Ah!” she cried. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z To this end you must put a knife in the child’s cradle when you leave it alone, or you must lay a pair of tongs across the cradle. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z In The Daily Telegraph, the columnist Judith Woods said his gesture was “best lifted with a pair of tongs and inspected from every angle before being taken at face value.” Letter From Europe: Blair's Offer to Veterans Draws Scorn 2010-08-27T10:40:00Z For more than an hour, Mr. Grayson held a pair of tongs and handed out biscuits as people passed through the buffet line at a Masonic lodge in the southern Kentucky town of Nancy. Kentucky Senate Primary Is Vital Test for Tea Party 2010-05-17T03:47:00Z Mr Ombler, a market trader from Hull, was found battered to death on his kitchen floor on 30 May 1914, the victim of a vicious attack involving a fire poker and pair of tongs. Open cases 2010-05-06T09:17:00Z The scorifier is taken from the muffle in a pair of tongs and the contents poured into a mould, the lead forming a button in the bottom while the slag floats on top. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" “Why, making such a pair of tongs of me, with which to fish for her hot roast chestnut—meaning you, of course, Charley,” said Lingon, with a laugh. By Birth a Lady Or the glass at the end of the tube may be pressed together to close the tube, and the mass of glass may be seized with a pair of tongs and drawn away. The Methods of Glass Blowing and of Working Silica in the Oxy-Gas Flame For the use of chemical and physical students The file-leader had an old pair of tongs, which he snapped viciously when Nan gave the word to fire. Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction But it would have required a large pair of tongs to draw our nephew from behind the stove. Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 A pair of tongs should be used instead of a fork for turning all broiled meat and fish. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" Pierre replaced the bottle of acid on the shelf and picked up a pair of tongs. The Blue Goose And we shall need him as we need a pair of tongs to handle live coals. The Co-Citizens When it glowed he took it out, cut off the glowing piece on the chisel in his anvil, caught it up in a pair of tongs and thrust it back into the fire. Dwellers in the Hills "You couldn't hire a cowman to eat any other kind, you couldn't put one of them slick fresh fellers down him with a pair of tongs." The Duke Of Chimney Butte Here is shown a pair of tongs that makes easy work of the job. The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair So we ups and hog ties the old natural, picks him up with a pair of tongs and dips him in the crick. Louisiana Lou A Western Story Do you think Phœbe would touch them—with a pair of tongs?” cried the angry grandmother. Phoebe, Junior In a moment he came back, bringing a pair of tongs. The Nursery, February 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 2 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers The pair of tongs.The top.The swing. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks His own teeth were clenched upon a rank cigar; and he was reading a paper-bound novel that she would not have touched with a pair of tongs. Captain Desmond, V.C. A pair of tongs were at once produced, and under the direction of the blacksmith the captive and the woman held hands, and took each other for man and wife. Border Ghost Stories I could not stop to retrieve the question papers with a pair of tongs—as I might, had I not been hurried. Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers She wrote me a letter which would have put another girl in such a rage that she would never have touched any one of you again with a pair of tongs. Girls of the Forest When the woman holds the lingam in her yoni, draws it in, presses it, and keeps it thus in her for a long time, it is called the "pair of tongs." The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks Old stories have it that the contracting parties jumped a broomstick or a pair of tongs, or something of that sort, but whether there were any signatures I really do not know. The Day of Judgment Bannon, a short, thickset man with a mop of unruly black hair shoved a pair of tongs into Ben’s hands and quickly explained how to hold the rivets with which the group was working. Daughters of Doom ‘I have read all about that in “Keysler’s Travels,”’ said I; ‘do you tell her that I would not touch her with a pair of tongs, unless to seize her nose.’ The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' "I think I'll have to take you out with a pair of tongs." Little Prudy Lift it carefully with a pair of tongs into a bath full of vinegar. The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story One of the smallest man figures I ever saw; shaped like a pair of tongs, and hardly above five feet in all. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism The cunning person takes a long pair of tongs, catches the Devil by the nose, loads his horse, and returns in safety. Italian Popular Tales None had more than a sword and a pair of pistols: one page had only a single pocket-pistol; and another page and equerry had broken a pair of tongs, and taken each a half. The Peasant and the Prince After that he took a pair of tongs, caught hold of the lady by the feet, flung her into the furnace, and burnt her up; nothing was left of her but her bare bones. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore “You wouldn’t get any of them to touch him with a pair of tongs,” added another. The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story "My husband said last night that politics had sunk to such a pass in this town that no decent man would touch the City Hall with a pair of tongs," said Mrs. Mason. A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day He also has a chimta or small pair of tongs, and, if he can obtain it, the skin of an Indian antelope, on which he will sit while taking his food. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II It called forth a bitter wail from Jefferson Davis, on the 12th of January, 1863, and soon after the Confederate Congress elevated its olfactory organ and handled the subject with a pair of tongs. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens At the end of that time, the agent seized the crucible with a pair of tongs, poured the metal into an iron mould, and threw away the dross. Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines “What! crying out for that!” said Edmund Burgess, who had just come in to ask for a pair of tongs. The Armourer's Prentices "Mason wouldn't touch politics with a pair of tongs,—so he says," the secretary answered. A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day I wouldn’t cheek her with a pair of tongs. The Cock-House at Fellsgarth Of course I ought to have known I was not solid silver, and had no claim to class myself of the same metal as a genuine silver pair of tongs. The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch Who wants to touch you with a pair of tongs? Tom, Dick and Harry A heavy pair of tongs, like ice-tongs, is attached to one end, and the log is snaked out by horses to the skidway. Handwork in Wood I wouldn't pick her out of a gutter with a pair of tongs. Can You Forgive Her? But get an idea like the wheel, or even a pair of tongs? Naudsonce When Thor came into the hall, and stood opposite Geirrod, the latter seized with a pair of tongs a red-hot iron wedge and threw it at Thor. The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda But Brent used a rather more practical pair of tongs in a businesslike manner. Space Tug “Only we are very glad he did run away!” said Bob, “but as to touching him, why, I wouldn’t with a pair of tongs.” Polly A New-Fashioned Girl The fireplace first, unless indeed he have the chance, as I had when a boy, to get him a pair of tongs. The Hills of Hingham I have told them how dreadful civilization has become, and they are afraid of it; they will not touch it with a pair of tongs. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties I shouldn't think those trousers would wear out any faster on a five-year-old boy than they would on a pair of tongs. The Jamesons He had picked up a pair of tongs and was stooping to pick up the charred ends of wood and pile them to revive the blaze, when another sound fetched him upright again. Corporal Sam and Other Stories Bouchard bent toward the fire and with the aid of a pair of tongs drew forth the end of a broken spit, white with heat. The Grey Cloak Now a scowdher is an oaten cake laid upon a pair of tongs placed over the greeshaugh, or embers, that are spread out for the purpose of baking it. Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three The child went to the work-house—I would not have touched it with a pair of tongs—and there it, too, died of lack and care. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week Have these men entered into a secret compact not to touch a problem even with a pair of tongs? Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 For himself, he says, he has always found a pair of tongs more convenient. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 31, 1891 Mrs. Goldsmith was touching the skirts of musical comedy with a very long pair of tongs. The Real Adventure Yes, or I'd take it with a pair of tongs and throw it out of the window. Sevenoaks There they met the king's smith; he was on his way to the smithy, and had a large pair of tongs in his hand. Folk Tales Every Child Should Know Master then said "you lie, you infernal villain," and laid hold of a pair of tongs and said he would dash my brains out if I did not tell him the truth. Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846, and 1848 When he heard it, he came at me with a pair of tongs which he had just taken from the fire and was going to kill me. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 As the music ended sharply with the click of Young Zeb's two heels, the stranger bent, took up a pair of tongs, and rearranged the fire before lifting his head. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales I wouldn't touch it with a pair of tongs: I'd run from it. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 It was a loathsome and nameless vice, only to be touched with a pair of tongs, rapidly and with precautions. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion They coaxed the janitor to find a pair of tongs, and with this implement Phin's books and papers were conveyed to the purifying blaze. The High School Captain of the Team Dick & Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard A piece of elm or hickory, 3 ft. long and 1-1/2 in. thick, makes a good pair of tongs. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do Soldiers, officers, government officials, and superintendents, the latter of whom are armed with sticks and pairs of tongs, stand at the entrance to drive those forcibly back who will not be content with fair words. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy The eight bullies, who packed themselves in a circle around us, were so filthy in appearance that I should have wished to give them my money with a pair of tongs. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 He, like the savage cited, is occasionally agitated in a convulsive manner; and cases are quoted in which the twig writhes when held in a pair of tongs! The Making of Religion "Why, Aunt Linda," said Robert, "there are numbers of things the Lord has made that I wouldn't touch with a pair of tongs." Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted An ordinary cast-iron glue-pot makes a good crucible and can be easily handled by a pair of tongs, made out of steel rod, as shown in the sketch. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do She excused her father because he was her father; but according to her thinking there should have been no dealings with such men as these, except at the end of a pair of tongs. Mr. Scarborough's Family "I wouldn't touch one of them with a pair of tongs," I assured him. Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon For like me, She delights in your dance, Fire, and chastises you when you're quiet, with a stern pair of tongs. Barks and Purrs Presently he went into his shop and brought out several pairs of tongs. Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont After all, why should he care for a pair of tongs? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 George picked up the hot flask with the second pair of tongs and dropped it into a bucket of water. O+F I was so ragged and dirty, that you wouldn't have touched me with a pair of tongs.' Hard Times The bolt, white-hot, was seized with a pair of tongs, thrown violently through the air, sending off a shower of white sparks as it went. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers There is only one way of escaping the danger, and that is, when you go to milk her, take with you a pan of burning coals and a pair of tongs. The Violet Fairy Book Thereupon they seized the stump with a pair of tongs, drew it out, cut it twice, and the third time to the very roots, and left him lying half dead. Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway A short sunburnt man came in and our friend sprang up and saluted, clicking his heels like a pair of tongs. Greenmantle Feeling utterly miserable, I had my hair cut; and, rendered perfectly reckless by my appearance, I consented to have what was left of it tightly curled with a pair of tongs. Tracks of a Rolling Stone It was wonderful the way these children would work up their compassion for that bedraggled thing I wouldn't have touched with a pair of tongs. Falk A Reminiscence I never saw such a pair of tongs as you carry about! Grettir the Strong, Icelandic Saga Mr. Banker received me with a sad and dejected look, and not “with open arms,” or with any arms at all, but with—a pair of tongs! Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East It took two months to have a pair of tongs made, and it cost twenty-eight pounds at the customs for a piano to enter the country. George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings “What! crying out for that!” said Edmund Burgess, who had just come in to ask for a pair of tongs. The Armourer's Prentices Presently he made a sign, and with the aid of a long pair of tongs, the white hot crucible was lifted from the fire. The Mystery of the Four Fingers The blacksmith had previously cut and welded the tire, reducing its circumference, and when it was hot enough, he and Sandy, each with a pair of tongs, lifted it from the red-hot circle of fire. In the Midst of Alarms To the lower jaw, A, of a pair of tongs is pivoted a platen or bed, B, having a hole through its center, which is continued through the jaw for the passage of the drillings. Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. And she, who had formerly been heard to say, "she would not touch him with a pair of tongs," now unreluctantly gave him her envied hand at a ball at Bagnigge Wells. Tales and Novels — Volume 02 There they met the King's smith, who was going to the smithy, and had a great pair of tongs in his hand. East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon She got some meat from Mrs. Glass, and we set forth furnished with a pair of tongs in place of a landing-net. Three Years in Tristan da Cunha After they went out, Salina removed her tin oven from before the fire, took up a huge pair of tongs and deliberately fished out Mr. Farnham's will from behind the back-log. The Old Homestead Thereupon one of the Seraphim flew to the Altar and, with a pair of tongs, took from it a live coal. Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile) But there's never anybody comes to his parties you could love with a pair of tongs… I wonder if he would? The Wishing-Ring Man The offending and irresolute gentleman was then seized upon with a pair of tongs, carried in solemn procession to the remotest room in the house, and burnt. A Girl Among the Anarchists "Ag-low!" he shouted, and a native servant ran up with a piece of red-hot charcoal held in a little pair of tongs. In Times of Peril The beak of a hornbill is nothing else than a pair of tongs long enough to reach and strong enough to wrench off a wild fig from its thick stem. Concerning Animals and Other Matters A couple of cuts are almost enough to make a fork, a pair of tongs or a hook. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes At the end of ten minutes he drew it out with a pair of tongs uninjured. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction It is as if one very cordially shook hands with you by means of a pair of tongs or a ten-foot pole. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 "Come, come Gentlemen!" remonstrated the Auctioneer, "this isn't a coal-scuttle, nor a broom, nor yet a pair of tongs,—this is a magnificent mahogany side-board,—and you offer me—nineteen pound!" The Money Moon A Romance But, my dear Colonel, without that protecting clause you couldn't get a banker to touch your bonds with a pair of tongs. Colonel Carter of Cartersville So at last the sheriff called for a pair of tongs, to seize the sticks himself and fling them into the fire. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 I choose the outer one, a round ring with terminations shaped like viper heads;—the smith inserts a pair of tongs between these ends, presses outward slowly and strongly, and the ring is off. Two Years in the French West Indies She takes the fork, or a pair of tongs, and therewith doth throw it over the pales. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 I said if I found one of those shirts in my house I'd put it in the fire with a pair of tongs, and I would. The One Woman From time to time she stirred them with a rickety pair of tongs, or with her foot kicked into the grate the matches he invariably threw short upon the floor. A Prisoner in Fairyland Mrs. James Blaisdell spoke the word as if her tongue were a pair of tongs that had picked up a noxious viper. Oh, Money! Money! "Yes, but they couldn't thrust a pair of tongs into your butler's sitting-room, extract Johann Wolff, and set him down inside Norwich Castle or whatever prison he may be in," Seaman objected. The Great Impersonation I say this is a conspiracy to kill me between Feemy and Strapper because I wouldn't touch Feemy with a pair of tongs. The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet An instrument like a pair of tongs, for old or very fat people to take any thing from the ground without stooping. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue In his left hand he grasped a pair of tongs wherein was set a glowing iron scroll, upon which he beat with the hammer in his right. The Broad Highway We cleared a space of 10 ft. by 20 ft. round the rudder and propeller, sawing through ice 2 ft. thick, and lifting the blocks with a pair of tongs made by the carpenter. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition Finding none, he glanced about, and seized a pair of tongs from beside the grate. The Exploits of Elaine "I wouldn't touch him with a pair of tongs, if he were kneeling at my feet!" He Knew He Was Right If I were you, B. B., I shouldnt touch him with a pair of tongs. The Doctor's Dilemma I took the rabbit with a pair of tongs; the others had handled their baits and pug crept round 'em and nosed the trick. It Is Never Too Late to Mend ‘I wouldn’t touch him with a pair of tongs!’ Friarswood Post Office The earnest critic would hardly touch his name with a pair of tongs, but the theatre managers fought for possession of his work. The Malady of the Century Raoul was seated by the fire, stirring up the coals with a pair of tongs. File No. 113 "I would not touch him with a pair of tongs," spoke Mr. Carlyle, his lips curling again. East Lynne “Hold!” to the servant who was bringing the red-hot irons in a pair of tongs. The Little Duke Let us suppose the case of a pair of tongs that falls upon a man's foot, causing a cruel hurt. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 "No gutter in the world's as wet as this," said Agnes, who had peeled off her brother's sock, and was now toasting it at the embers on a pair of tongs. The Longest Journey Then with a deft motion he seized the whole thing with a long pair of tongs and plunged it into a vat of running water. The Silent Bullet Ephraim is the pair of tongs, the hand, and the unlovely job, are a royal man's. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 They set the spluttering mess on fire, and drew it off, skin and all, with a pair of tongs. A History of the Moravian Church Consider how exactly, how marvelously, indeed, its situation corresponds to that of a pair of tongs. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 Taking a pair of tongs from the grate he nipped the creature between them. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Then the "fairy-man" of the village, who was keeping watch with the family, heated a pair of tongs red-hot, and with deafening shouts all burst at once into the sick-chamber. Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology He emerged, asked for a pair of tongs, and returned, bearing in the tongs a bloody glove, and the noise ceased. A Collection of Ballads |
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