| 单词 | pincer |
| 例句 | “What is it?” he said, clicking his pincers rapidly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z If I went for the tail, the thing’s pincers came from either side and tried to grab me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Harry thought he heard the tinkle of bottles as Slughorn bent over the pincers, apparently examining the enormous hairy head. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Its shell was mottled blue and green, its pincers longer than my body. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Well, what’s on your mind, Stuart?” asked Dr. Carey, seizing hold of the man’s tooth with a pair of pincers and giving a strong pull. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z When they hit the water, they fan out, forming a pincer like a crab's. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z It had been hard to tell, because he clicked his pincers with every word he spoke. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Grasping the point with his copper pincers, he began to tug it toward him, his muscles knotting. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z A giant spider, six feet tall and covered in hair, was advancing on Ron, clicking its pincers menacingly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z A splash, a labored beating of wings, and Zerubabel was in a gull’s beak, its pale, pink shell already crushed, its tiny pincers loosely dangling. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He heard the menacing clicks of thousands of pincers around him, the rustling of the spiders as they scuttled across the underbrush, but he didn’t dare look back. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “You!” said the Queen, laying her hand on his shoulder—a white, beautiful hand, but Digory could feel that it was strong as steel pincers. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z But one day I will have your tongue ripped out with hot pincers, and that will be hilarious. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Merry was trapped: another crack had closed about his waist; his legs lay outside, but the rest of him was inside a dark opening, the edges of which gripped like a pair of pincers. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z "Where are your pincers, Master Dunstan? Will you catch the devil by the nose?" Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Even though only about fifteen atoms were involved, they kept falling out of the awkward pincers set up to hold them the correct distance from one another. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Spines and fins were severed in the morning before the awakening of the town; claws and pincers worked in mute terror at the soundless approach of serrated teeth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A Grievers pulsating, bulbous body had squirmed halfway through the destroyed window, metallic arms with pincers snapping and clawing in all directions. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Click, click, click went the pincers of the spiders all around the hollow. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z By evening Alba was crying in humiliation and pain, terrified by the pincers in her guts and by this stream of blood that was so unlike her usual flow. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I kicked one away from Annabeth s leg and its pincers took a chunk out of my new surf shoe. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z On a wide shop table, Shin saw a large pair of pincers, a tool used for gripping and carrying pieces of hot metal. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He could hear Cedric yelling “Stupefy!” too, but his spell had no more effect than Harry’s — Harry raised his wand as the spider opened its pincers once more and shouted “Expelliarmus!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z "How I have yearned to have that eunuch's tongue pulled out with hot pincers," Cersei replied. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I pressed my sleeve against my cut cheek until the throbbing pain spread like red-hot pincers, twisting into the flesh and burrowing deeper. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z When she called, it waved its tiny pink pincers at her frantically. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z It scuttled out of the fountain and came straight at me, pincers snapping. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I watched as Briares bellowed in rage and picked up the lobster, which thrashed and snapped its pincers. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Head hanging, Harry saw that what had hold of him was marching on six immensely long, hairy legs, the front two clutching him tightly below a pair of shining black pincers. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z He could see some sort of thick, gluey secretion from the spider’s pincers on his torn robes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The ant struggled in the soft, sandy trap until a pair of pincers suddenly reached up and grabbed it, thrashed up a little dust, and pulled it under. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They were moving wildly—a dozen black-bristled appendages roughly the size of his own arms and with pincers for grasping prey and dragging it toward...its mouth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He hoped the knife would be enough, because they hadn’t figured on wire and had brought neither pincers nor a wire cutter. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Three of the Grievers swarmed on him at once, their long pincers and claspers and needles flying in from all directions. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Josh handed up more ornaments with an extended pincer tool, and I snagged them on the branches. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Over time, the finch’s beak would harden and become pincer shaped. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Magnificent,” said Slughorn, approaching the spider’s head, where eight milky eyes stared blankly at the sky and two huge, curved pincers shone, motionless, in the moonlight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He was lifted into the air in its front legs; struggling madly, he tried to kick it; his leg connected with the pincers and next moment he was in excruciating pain. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Aragog clicked his pincers furiously, and all around the hollow the sound was echoed by the crowd of spiders; it was like applause, except applause didn’t usually make Harry feel sick with fear. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z If I ever stepped on one in my bare feet I was sure it would chop my toes off with those big pincers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It kept its beady black eyes on me, clamping its pincers as it crawled onto my shoe. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Head Buster swayed back and forth with his arms out like the pincers of a scorpion. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “In trouble?” said the aged spider, and Harry thought he heard concern beneath the clicking pincers. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Coming out of the woods was a glistening amber insect, tenfeetiong, with jagged pincers, an armored tail, and a stinger as long as my sword. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z But she had named it Zerubabel, and it had held its little pincers so prettily. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Harry had one horrifying glimpse of eight shining black eyes and razor-sharp pincers before it was upon him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Even though only about fifteen atoms were involved, they kept falling out of the awkward pincers set up to hold them.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z His plan for a pincer failed and it was Ramsay who used a pincer. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 9: The Hungry Dogs of War 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z War and sexual passion are not opposites: they are in the same business, two parts of the same pincer attack on the sanity of the individual. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z Two of the three clubs the crab held onto were freed, but the final one remained firmly in the crab's left pincer. Giant crab splits golf club in half with pincers in viral video: 'He's beaten us' 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z The space between the pincers is Quartermaster Harbor, at whose innermost point rests the village of Burton. Overnighter: Vashon Island, near Seattle, a Rural Throwback 2012-03-30T18:21:52Z “The Force” is a stunner of a cop novel, with dialogue, gritty New York setting and moral pincers all in the service of a devastating plot. Books to Breeze Through This Summer 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z There were the maps of Europe, with arrows diagraming pincer attacks and fire-red explosion graphics. Ukraine on TV: We’ve Seen This Before. And We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It. 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z In 2002, for his futuristic ballet Nemesis, he teamed up with Jim Henson's Creature workshop to fit his dancers with prosthetic pincers based on the multiple-jointed arms of the praying mantis. Ballet's rock star 2011-01-02T00:03:05Z Bill directed me to contort my mouth into a variety of shapes: different aperture, different sound, all of it further modified by the pincer movement of the tongue and the soft palate. A Brief Tussle with the Great American Songbook 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z And what they do is put their giant pincers around a man. Without Dave: Life After “Late Show with David Letterman” 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Lucas Cranach the Elder later depicted her as a comely young woman with a pair of pincers, intent on a bit of self-dentistry. Salvaged saints: Michael Landy's martyrs invade the National Gallery 2013-05-22T18:30:01Z The sequential zoological parade continues with an emphasis on sharp pincers, claws and incisors but also includes intriguing glimpses of long-ago landscapes. Review | Best new children’s and young-adult books this month 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z To modern ears the Beatles and the Rolling Stones might seem like two sides of the same coin, the twin prongs of a British Invasion pincer attack. ‘Beatles vs. Stones’: Which side are you on? 2013-12-13T21:49:48Z Noting the pincers at the bottom of one, he says, “I am reminded of the manual toolkit owned by the eponymous hero of the movie ‘Edward Scissorhands.’ ” Books of The Times: ?Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms,? by Richard Fortey 2012-04-12T19:42:43Z Even as an elderly woman, she threw herself into the service of Spain's anarchist republic, only to see the dream crushed between the iron pincers of fascism and Stalinism. Emma Goldman: a thoroughly modern anarchist 2010-10-06T12:00:00Z Armored personnel carriers rumbled toward us from different directions, trapping protesters in a pincer motion. Two Thai Novelists Explore Bangkok’s Swirl of Remembering and Forgetting 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Its painted pincers pushed against a banner of sky encircling the walls, reminiscent of the fake bounds imposed in The Truman Show's reality-TV world. Artist of the week 146: Jess Flood-Paddock 2011-07-14T11:38:47Z Using metal pincers, they could pull it into all shapes before it cooled down too much. Mark Miodownik: an obsession with materials 2013-05-24T15:53:00Z Then one pair of pincers cut through the cable, roughly, to make the break look like an accident. Secrets of the Conqueror by Stuart Prebble – review 2012-10-12T07:00:02Z Another recurrent image was that of the arms aiming downward and vibrating, like quivering pincers. Review: Thomas Adès Calls for Complexity at City Center 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Landy's figure is an impossibly elongated woman in red, smashing herself in the gob with the pincers. Salvaged saints: Michael Landy's martyrs invade the National Gallery 2013-05-22T18:30:01Z The crayfish varieties, including so-called spiny lobsters and rock lobsters of Australia and Brazil, for example, generally have thinner, less powerful pincers. Lobster’s cheap. Lobster’s luxurious. Discuss. I tried to keep looking at the drawing to understand the name they used for the pincers in the movie. Without Dave: Life After “Late Show with David Letterman” 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z And then they put these giant pincers, which I looked up in ant anatomy—they’re just called feelers there on Google—they put the pincers around a man. Without Dave: Life After “Late Show with David Letterman” 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z The tablets were beautiful, the first time I saw a friend use two fingers to pincer out the multicolored pills from the pocket of her skintight bell bottoms. How getting caught with two cans of Olympia turned teenage Susan Straight into a writer 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Back at base in Scotland after the Falklands, the Conqueror was secretly fitted with two pairs of giant pincers. Secrets of the Conqueror by Stuart Prebble – review 2012-10-12T07:00:02Z The peplum of one blush pink dress, with a metal pincer belt, recalled the layers of a jellyfish, and the tooth of an octopus. Chanel and McQueen entice fantasy in Paris shows 2012-03-07T03:01:04Z “It’s a battle between your fingers and their pincers,” Douglas said. Wildlife galore in the Bahamas, where the whole world’s a park 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z It is a pincer movement of science and philosophy that will, ultimately, crack the mystery of consciousness. Understanding Consciousness Goes Beyond Exploring Brain Chemistry 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z The northern pincer of any such Chinese naval blockade would pass through, or close to the Ryukyus, most likely in the strategic Miyako Strait. Japan struggles to match rhetoric, policy on defending Taiwan 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z For Italy, the extreme heat has forged a pincer with the country’s most pressing demographic trend — an aging population — to present an especially acute crisis. For Europe’s Older Population, Heat Is the New Covid 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Watching her gracefully somersaulting through the water — her silvery tail towed, at one point, by Sebastian’s tiny pincer — you can’t help feeling something not present enough on screens these days: joy. Review: Everything is bigger in the new 'Little Mermaid' — but is it worth watching? 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The photo shows a black, shiny scorpion with very large chelicerae, or pincers. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Troops advanced in a pincers movement, attacking from the southwest and northeast, reaching at times the two roads. Inch by Bloody Inch in Ukraine War, Russia Is Closing In on Bakhmut 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z "It will pose a 'pincer' threat which is why they are trying to fight for this area so heavily - this is no less important than Bakhmut." North of Bakhmut, another key battle tests Ukraine's defences 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z As Russian pincers were closing on the city, a presidential aide warned last week that the military could “strategically pull back” if needed. Battle for Bakhmut takes center stage in war in Ukraine 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z They return with pincers gripping dead young ants to feed the settlement. Mutant, Parasitic Impostor Queens Lurk in Ant Colonies 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z "Many firms are caught in the pincer movement of soaring inflation and rising interest rates," said David Bharier, head of research at the BCC. UK businesses most downbeat about profits since Q4 2020 - BCC 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Its hold of the Luhansk region appears increasingly shaky, as Ukrainian forces make inroads there, with the pincer assault on Lyman. Putin: Russia will use ‘all available means’ to guard annexed regions 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z There’s the snap-trap, where two groups of arms extend like a pincer around the prey. How to Hunt Like an Octopus 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Gorbachev soon found himself caught between the pincers of established glasnost and delayed perestroika. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Along with the forces landing at Hostomel and spreading to the western side of the capital, they would form a pincer movement on Kyiv. Battle for Kyiv: Ukrainian valor, Russian blunders combined to save the capital Forming a pincer around the capital, Russian troops planned to seize Kyiv in three to four days. Road to war: U.S. struggled to convince allies, and Zelensky, of risk of invasion I had leveled its stems with scissors, pinched its buds with my pincers and hung it upside down like a trapeze artist without a net. In Washington state, lavender fields forever 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z They have already had to cope with soaring inflation and rising interest rates, a pincer movement that squeezes borrowers, plus the Ukraine conflict which has rattled Europe's economy, including by constraining its energy supplies. Analysis: Europe's banks brace for bumpy ride after cheap money decade 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z “However, it is probably also attempting to break through at Vuhlehirska, as part of its efforts to regain momentum on the southern pincer of its advance towards the key cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.” Russia pounds major Ukrainian city after expanding war aims 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Moscow’s forces are advancing in Ukraine’s east in a bid to capture the industrial heartland known as the Donbas, where Ukraine fears some of its troops could be encircled in a Russian pincer move. U.S. expected to send $450 million in security aid to Ukraine- officials 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z “It’s a pincer move,” said Lisa Graves, executive director of the progressive watchdog group True North Research and a former senior Justice Department official. Republican Drive to Tilt Courts Against Climate Action Reaches a Crucial Moment 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z From the first days of the war, Pentagon officials have feared that the Ukrainians could be encircled in the east in a classic “double encirclement” pincer movement. Opinion | In Ukraine, is the balance tipping in Moscow’s favor? Not yet. 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Nearby, Russian forces were trying to push southward, part of a pincer move to trap the Ukrainian troops still holding a pocket of territory in the two eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk. From Ukraine’s Front Lines, Bravery and Wreckage 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Russian artillery was also pounding the Lysychansk-Bakhmut road, which Russia must take to close a pincer movement and encircle Ukrainian forces. Russia advances in east; Ukraine calls for longer-range weapons 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z Russian pincers approaching the city from the north and south are separated by just 16 miles, but face “strong Ukrainian resistance,” the British Defense Ministry said Tuesday. War raises famine fears as Russia chokes off Ukraine’s farms and exports 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z But a pincer movement of internal and external political pressure forced the company to publicly oppose the bill. Column: The right-wing mob gets its pound of Mouse flesh from Disney — or does it? 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z But Ukrainian counteroffensives have disrupted the Russians at the two points of the pincer, Kharkiv near the Russian border and Kherson near the Black Sea. Opinion | In Ukraine, is the balance tipping in Moscow’s favor? Not yet. 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z The Ukrainians are located in a north-south crescent between deep Russian lines in the southeastern Donbas region, and a potential pincer movement to their west. Looming ground battle is crucial phase in Ukraine, U.S. officials say 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z How far Mr. Putin will go is unclear, but the Kremlin appears intent on trapping much of the Ukrainian military in a pincer and destroying it. Dug in on the front lines, Ukrainian soldiers fight to repel the Russian onslaught. 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z As Round 2 begins, Russia appears to be attempting a classic pincer movement to crush Ukrainian forces in the east. Opinion | As Ukraine war shifts, the Russians have every advantage but one 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Ukrainian and Western experts expect Russia to try to encircle Ukrainian forces with a pincer movement by advancing from Izyum in the north and Mariupol in the south. EXPLAINER: How Russia’s eastern push in Ukraine may unfold 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Moscow could try to punch through Ukraine’s eastern front while advancing with troops, tanks and armoured vehicles from the north and south in a pincer movement. Analysis-Looming battle in Donbas to shape course of Russia's war in Ukraine 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Ukrainian and Western experts expect the Russians to try to encircle Ukrainian forces in Donbas with a pincer movement by advancing from Izyum in the north and Mariupol in the south. EXPLAINER: New front, same challenges for Russian offensive 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z By all accounts, attempting to grab the air base at the very outset of the war made a lot of sense, helping to complement a prospective pincer movement on the capital with nearby motorized columns. Russia lost the battle for Kyiv with its hasty assault on a Ukrainian airport 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z The Russian tactic was adopted from the German army, which described such pincer movements as kesselschlacht, or “cauldron battle.” Opinion | As Ukraine war shifts, the Russians have every advantage but one 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z That could trap the Ukrainian troops arrayed against the breakaway region in a pincer, caught between Russian forces to the east and west. First Ukraine City Falls as Russia Strikes More Civilian Targets 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Caught in this “pincer action,” about half of the North Koreans surrendered. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z You will need: pincers or tweezers, a lidded container of plastic or glass, pebbles, pine needles, rotting bark or potting soil, a spray bottle. As peak moss season begins in WA, here’s what you need to know 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z This pincer movement might try to envelop the Ukrainian army and destroy it over several weeks. Opinion | Putin’s impending ‘march of folly’ in Ukraine 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z In such a pincer scenario, the official said, “at best they compel them to surrender; at worst they annihilate them.” Biden warns Putin of ‘swift and severe costs’ if Russia attacks Ukraine 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z They said Russian troops had been positioned in a manner that suggested a pincer movement, in which Russia would invade the country from three sides. U.S. Warns of Grim Toll if Putin Pursues Full Invasion of Ukraine 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z He describes the shallow oceans of the early Cambrian period, for example, as being “filled with the spiky clatter of arthropod pincers.” Review | With failed experiments and bizarre successes, evolution marches on 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Sony also showed off a robotic grabber, a mechanized pincer that could be used to let a machine pick up objects. Sony shows off a robot grabber, 4K OLED panels for VR, and more 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z But some military and intelligence officials believe that the figure may go higher, as Mr. Putin distributes his forces in a way to suggest he could try a three-sided “pincer” invasion of the country. Biden Expected to Offer Warnings and Alternatives in Call With Putin 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z With Bottas up with Hamilton at the front, Mercedes can try to pincer Verstappen on race strategy in a race, by forcing him to stop at a time that is not optimal. Hamilton takes dominant pole in Qatar 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Chinese companies have been caught in a pincer this year, with increasing U.S. scrutiny on one side and a domestic regulatory crackdown on the country’s massive internet sector. Analysis: Sovereign wealth funds sweet on China, despite regulatory headwinds 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z It's a shrewd pincers' action: push to cut taxes that fund public universities and then appeal to trustees to accept Koch's ideologically driven campus investments. The secret corporate memo behind today's guerilla war on campus progressives 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z I remember having hopped into the creek first when a large, blue crawdad appeared, its pincers raised to fight. My Father Vanished When I Was 7. The Mystery Made Me Who I Am. 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z With the rehabilitative ideal under this pincer assault and the period's intensifying insurgencies within prisons, the old rationale had fewer defenders, opening up space for this pivotal struggle to redefine the purpose of the prison. The deeper history of "defund": How the "get tough" policies of the '70s and '80s led to disaster 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z Chinese state media described both sorties as an effort to increase combat readiness and to practice a military pincer movement against the self-governing island. ‘Spiral out of control’: China’s ‘confrontational’ provocation on U.S. allies tests Biden’s resolve 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z SRC said shops were "caught in a pincer movement" between local lockdowns at the start of the month and a nationwide lockdown at the end of December. Covid in Scotland: Shop footfall 'falls like a stone' 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z The rubber crafts raced along either side of the fishing boat, squeezing it like a pincer. Sunken boats. Stolen gear. Fishermen are prey as China conquers a strategic sea 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z About midway, Nolan spectacularly ramps up this backward-forward simultaneity: a battle sequences involves a “temporal pincer movement,” with two army detachments working together, but in different directions in time. Review: 'Tenet' has arrived. But is it spectacular enough to lure you back to movie theaters? 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z In 2018 the Rainforest Trust auctioned off the rights to name 12 different species found in South America, including four frogs, a salamander, a mouse and an ant with some very sharp pincers. How to Get a Species Named after You 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Competition A pincer movement of Airbnb and budget holidays has changed consumer behaviour, though Thomas Cook still managed to sell 11m package holidays last year. Thomas Cook collapse: accounting watchdog weighs up investigation 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Upon our approach, the scorpions would sometimes scurry away, sometimes duck into a hole and, just as often, raise their pincers and arch their tails in preparation for battle. ‘I’ve got one!’ Hunting neon scorpions in the Arizona desert 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z “Entirely of their own making, the Republicans in the General Assembly are in a pincer,” Connolly said. Opinion | It'll be harder for Republicans to smother gun control this time 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z The immediate purpose of this giant pincer movement was the liberation of Europe from Nazi domination. Heroes of a More Certain Time 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Andrew Pincus, a Washington lawyer who regularly argues before the court, said another issue is “the pincer of deadlines” facing the justices. Civil rights groups ask federal judge to reconsider conspiracy ruling on census citizenship question 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Making a pincer movement with his hands, Tymchuk demonstrated how Allied forces closed in on all sides on the Germans. South of D-Day beaches, another slaughter is remembered 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Manoeuvring in a pincer movement, the two units hope to flush out anyone attempting to plunder the forest for its riches. The soldiers who protect a rainforest 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z He makes a couple of attempts, but like the pincers of a claw vending machine, his fingers keep slipping off. Science Fiction Doesn’t Have to Be Dystopian 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z They note that it’s not that different from Baxter, another bot with arms and pincers that was meant to work alongside humans. Blue the robot could be the AI-powered workhorse of the future 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z I offered suggestions to improve their farming and taught them to hunt with spears specially designed to be held firm in their pincers. Gifts of Prometheus 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z They cornered him in a pincer movement and one went for a rugby tackle. Cristiano Ronaldo lights up Old Trafford with a cross, a smile and a selfie 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z “You could catch 300 kilos on a good day,” adds Matthew who is now tying rubber bands around the pincers of irate lobsters. Dead kittiwakes, dwindling fish and oceans of plastic: my voyage of discovery 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Ashkin developed optical tweezers made from monochromatic laser beams that act like pincers to grab nanoscopic particles, atoms and molecules. Nobel Physics Prize Awarded to Trio for Laser Inventions 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Instead of shrinking from a threat, they wave their pincers and attack. Canadian crabs with bad attitude threaten coastal ecosystem 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The initial battle plan appeared to involve a pincer movement. Fighting resumes around key Yemeni port city Hodeida 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Romany people, Le Bas argues, are “permanently trapped” in “the pincer of demonisation and romanticisation”. 'You can’t disregard pure racism': Gypsy writer Damian Le Bas on the prejudice against Travellers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z With 60-mile-per-hour pincers that create noisy shockwaves capable of stunning or killing their foes, it's no wonder snapping shrimp are sometimes compared to pistols. These Neon Shrimp Are the Bees of the Sea—Here's Why 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Soft grippers, which are typically controlled by changes in air pressure, can cram and wiggle into hard-to-reach places that would otherwise be inaccessible to hard pincers. Robots Are Learning to Handle With Care 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Ticks' technique for removing themselves from skin is less clear, but Nürnberger says the arachnids may detach themselves by moving their mouthparts around and retracting their pincers. Bloodsucking Ticks Make Cement to Attach to Your Skin 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z They attached the implants to the animals’ healthy, connected esophagi with two steel rings that wrap around the organ like pincers. Tiny robots could help infants with rare diseases. Watch one in action 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z The smaller pincer is unsurprising in size and simply shaped. Hopeful Monsters and the Snapping Shrimp 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Rigged with software that helps it choose songs, the robot’s pincers grab CDs, and then show off some moves before placing them in one of the two CDJs in front of it. The newest DJ at this Prague nightclub is a KUKA arm robot 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z Other moves, with names such as “small avalanche” and “knight’s move pincer” soon followed. 'It's able to create knowledge itself': Google unveils AI that learns on its own 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z In several hours, the waters would move toward her rural home from two sides, like pincers. With Houston's Brazos River headed for an off-the-charts flood, a neighborhood is on the run 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Like its insect namesake, “The Tick” is a tenacious beast — it dug its teeth, or pincers, or whatever it is ticks have, into the culture and held on. 'The Tick' lives again on Amazon in just the right clever and crazy mix 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z The pincers of mature male freshwater crayfish were big enough to wrap around the calf of an adult human, Walsh said, and they had been known to hold – and crush – beer bottles. Numbers shrinking for Tasmania's weird but much-loved giant freshwater lobster 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z The males’ limbs end in pincers, which they use to grab onto prospective mates. This creature has 10 eyes, legs that chew and blood that saved your life 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Under rows of black eyes, the spider has thick, hairy pincers that can deliver a venomous sting. Saucer-sized spider discovered in Baja cave 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z In 2010, at her own confirmation hearing, Justice Kagan employed her own pincer movements, executed with good-natured self-awareness, to avoid answering both specific questions and general ones. Avoid, Sidestep, Retreat: Justices’ Advice on Confirmation Tactics 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z In her case, the condition also caused club feet and a cleft left hand that resembled a crab’s pincers. Punk prosthetics: the mesmerising art of living sculpture Mari Katayama 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Under a plume of water from a fire hose to keep down the dust, workers used concussive rams and specialized pincers to rip down the building’s northwest corner. History coming down: Old Seattle Times building tumbling 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Standing in a pink desert landscape, I looked down and realized I’d become a robot, with skinny metal legs and pincers for hands. Reality Bites: Learning the Future of V.R. at Sundance 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z "It's only small - about three quarters of an inch - and it's jet black with very fine little pincers. " Scorpion crawls out of London to Edinburgh train passenger's bag - BBC News 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Wood chips like footballs fly out of the opening, fed by an excavator whose pincers wield 10-foot-long logs like toothpicks. The 102 million dead trees in California's forests are turning tree cutters into millionaires 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z He bought equipment including pincers, heavy-duty scissors, a putty knife, plastic buckets, carpet cleaner and a perforated metal sheet from a hardware store. Man who dissolved PC Gordon Semple's body in acid jailed for life 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z The performance is so physical — with the pincer fingers, the hyperactive eyebrows, the “C’mon already!” shoulder shrugs — that there’s not much work left for the words to do. I Muted Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton During the Debate. I Still Knew the Score. 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z The Inspector, a formidable mechanism with six menacing pincers, ran the class through a series of standard tests. The Fourth Law of Humanics : Nature : Nature Research 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Carter told reporters traveling with him Sunday that the airfield seizure would create a “pincer” effect, placing Mosul between Iraqi security forces advancing from the south and Kurdish peshmerga forces maneuvering from the north. Pentagon will send hundreds more troops to Iraq following seizure of key airfield 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z The broader political transformation Cohen describes happens in a pincer move: From the left, Democrats shattered the notion that the United States should devote blood and treasure to the anti-communist cause. How did our politics get so harsh and divisive? Blame 1968. 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z These plastic pincers are to hands what spoons are to knives. Let's count the ways this robot is fake 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z After everyone who advises him told him to wait for Ramsay to charge first, Emotional Jon Snow emotionally runs at the Bolton army, forcing his army to back him up and abandon their pincer plan. The Game of Game of Thrones: oh my god, seriously, Jon Snow sucks 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The large-eyed harvestman's toothless mouth pincers also confirm it belongs to a rarely collected type of harvestman that was recently snipped from one family tree branch and grafted onto another, a major taxonomic shake-up. Fossil Daddy Longlegs Sports a 99-Million-Year Erection 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Every time one of them looks like they might finally climb to freedom, another one grabs them with their pincers and drags them back into the pile. The Republican debate is going to get nasty 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z One of the vets who works there, Dr. Meghan Ward, shows off some metal pincers used back in the day to squeeze hooves to locate infected bits. EXCHANGE: Taylorville holiday tour ‘thinks outside the barn’ 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z It raised its pincers, opening and closing them in a disturbingly Pixar-ish gesture of helplessness. How to Feel Like a Castaway 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z This technology is a step up from bulky gloves or crude pincer like robotic manipulators. Lending a Robotic Helping Hand in Extreme Environments [Video] 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The nurses roll towards me, their burnished chrome pincers taking a firm grip on my elbows. The buyout : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z The ceramic legs and pincers are flexible actuators that move quickly and precisely without using much energy. Bionic ants could be tomorrow's factory workers 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Then, in swift, precision choreography, the team moved in with their knives, cleavers, hammers and pincers. An inside look at the first pig biobank 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Beyond that, survival is dependent on protecting your squad from higher-tier enemies and taking them out with strategies like pincer attacks. 'There Came An Echo' Review: On My Mark 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Iran’s supposed activities to bolster its fellow Shiite Muslim Houthis in Yemen threaten to complete a pincer maneuver around Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia's New King Salman Inherits Existing, Emerging Threats From Iran, Yemen 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Pyongyang sees itself caught in a “two-pronged pincers movement,” he said. For North Korea, ‘The Interview’ latest episode in perceived U.S. conspiracies 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Pyongyang perceives that challenge is being executed as part of a two-pronged pincer movement: On the one hand, North Korea attributes the U.N. The Interview and Its Challenge to North Korea’s Leadership The pincer movement worked: After speaking with Mr. Obama, Mr. Clyburn reversed himself and joined 56 other Democrats to narrowly pass the measure. Obama’s Pleas Foreshadow Tense Relationship With a New Congress 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z That stretch of land is still held by an array of rebel forces, but Syrian troops are encircling it in a pincer movement to cut supply lines, an attempt to force surrender and defeat. Will Aleppo finally fall? 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Such a pincer movement raises fears that trapped Kurds could face the kind of retributive killings and abuses that were reported after the Islamic State captured other areas in Iraq and Syria. Islamic State renews push to claim Syrian border town despite widening airstrikes And France, where I am making a BBC2 film on whether its enviable state-funded lifestyle is affordable and sustainable, seems trapped in a pincer of stagnating national income and rising national debt. Chancellor warns of UK slowdown 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Kiosks gleamed with rows of surgical scissors, forceps, pincers and other steel instruments. Why Brazil loves nip and tuck, as told by country’s plastic surgery ‘maestro’ 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z The Kurdish military blueprint is simple enough: Roll back Islamic State in the Kurdish areas, while Iraqi pro-government forces, including Shiite paramilitary groups, squeeze militants from the south in a pincer maneuver. Iran fills key role in battling Islamic State in Iraq 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Its "proof mass" - the bit that moves - is held by pincers inspired by the lobster claw. Mars probe 'inspired by lobsters' 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z The two operations squeezed the Nazi occupiers in a pincer, hastening the German defeat and the end of World War II. World Digest: Aug. 15, 2014 The retailer was trapped in a pincer movement. Philip Clarke feels 'enormous relief' as he quits Tesco 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z When the money is accessible, Mr. Rose forms pincers with his middle finger and the back of his forefinger to extract the cash. The Pickpocket’s Tale 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z The ultimate pincer movement by the authorities would be to find ways to tax unproductive cash holdings themselves. Cash stash may reflect fear of wealth going out of fashion 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z And these pincers connect to arms in the shape of flying buttresses, which support the structure much in the same way they were used to strengthen medieval cathedrals. Mars probe 'inspired by lobsters' 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z They remove fur or feathers from the body with pincers and emit an anti-bacterial secretion that slows decomposition, in essence embalming the body. Effort to bolster beetle in Missouri continues 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z So the main protection for the bomb technicians is no thicker than the clothes they are wearing, and their tools are just a set of pincers, pliers, knives and screwdrivers. Peshawar bomb disposal teams suffer heavy toll 2014-03-11T21:59:33Z In the late evening, the police finally overcame resistance from barricades near the Khreshchatyk Hotel and joined colleagues in a pincer operation to try to secure the flame-encircled center of Independence Square, known as Maidan. 25 Deaths Are Reported in Fierce Clashes in Kiev 2014-02-19T08:19:38Z Mr. Merghani and his colleagues designed a mechanical pincer, to be connected to a small tractor that would grab and cut through trees that produce gum arabic and extract the hardened gum sap. Khartoum Journal: Sudanese TV Show, Without the Cutthroat ‘You’re Fired,’ Rewards Entrepreneurs 2014-02-18T02:03:12Z During the Cambrian period, they slashed their way through the sea, using pincers and clawlike appendages to tear apart their prey before shoving it into their mouths. 'Mother Lode' of Fossils Discovered in Canada 2014-02-11T22:08:00Z Durin’s watercolors bristle with a hard-shelled arsenal of horns, thorns and spikes, of teeth, claws and pincers, all complemented by a writhing picket fence of antennas, from humble nubs to ostentatious lariats. Books: The French Painter Bernard Durin’s Close Look at Insect Life 2013-12-02T22:23:58Z But prosecutor Mr MacTaggart said Mr Dryden was the one defending himself as the brothers came at him in a "pincer movement" with "weapons raised". Kebab shop rivalry killers jailed 2013-11-21T12:05:55Z Falling potential economic growth and an increasing demand on public services created a "vicious pincer movement", he said. Would-be MPs 'should be vetted' 2013-10-22T14:58:32Z A huge industrial claw swoops down, its pincers reaching round a tonne of rubbish, picking it up and transporting it to the other end of the hall, where it is dropped. Norway uses waste as eco-friendly fuel 2013-09-24T01:07:18Z Insects are different—they’re like miniature monsters with their antennae and pincers and multiple appendages. What's stopping us from eating insects? 2013-07-24T15:15:15.430Z They face a pincer movement of high and rising house prices, but stagnating wages. How do you prepare for a lifetime of renting? 2013-06-19T12:35:57Z The report warns: "It might be said that arts and culture is experiencing a pincer movement effect in the aftermath of the financial crisis: reduced consumer expenditure due to squeezed incomes, and reduced public spending." Arts and culture worth more than £850m to UK export trade 2013-05-07T04:59:01Z The oceanic pincushion known as the purple sea urchin relies on its many spines and pincers for protection and food. Can Evolution Beat Climate Change? 2013-04-15T10:15:00.393Z According to Rocketnews 24, two robotic pincers controlled by a motor at the back of the garment simulate a girl’s cuddle from behind when you put the coat on. Japan's 'Girlfriend Coat' Can Hug You 2013-04-10T04:00:00Z It's so powerful that the Guardian style guide says I can only use it surrounded by the protective pincers of quote marks. If You Eat the Mediterranean Way, Can You Drop Your Heart Meds? 2013-02-26T18:39:20Z VR missions unlock as you play through the game, as do a number of secondary weapons dropped by bosses such as a ridiculously clever pole-arm and slow, but powerful, pincer blade. 'Metal Gear Rising Revengeance' Review: Go Ahead Punk, Make My Day (PS3) 2013-02-19T21:02:19Z The Soviets launched Operation Uranus on 19 November, a great pincer movement which snared the Sixth Army and their Axis allies. In pictures: Stalingrad anniversary 2013-02-01T18:50:09Z Then, in a classic pincer movement, they cut off the Sixth Army from its supply lines. Remembering the horrors of Stalingrad 2013-01-31T07:42:13Z The worrying consequence is that the operating companies may find themselves the victims of an uncomfortable pincer movement. NHS service providers' financial positions are weak – at best 2012-12-20T07:00:09Z This mechanism looks like a human-size robot with four "arms" equipped with pincers. Snake robot may help fight cancer 2012-09-21T03:35:33Z The answer is simple: To prevent China’s biggest e-commerce firm to complete a pincer movement with Amazon over smartphones’ operating systems market shares. How Alibaba And Mozilla Are Trying To Break Google And Apple Duopoly On Smartphone 2012-09-20T15:49:52Z It won’t be long now until the pincers close completely around the prey. Liberty Media Almost to the 50% Mark at Sirius XM 2012-09-13T03:22:47Z In the pool, the eight swimmers imitated dolphins leaping, giant crab pincers and fluid waves, wowing the crowd with some of the most daring lifts and leaps of the competition. Synchronized Swimming: Russia take team gold to sweep titles 2012-08-10T18:37:58Z For all the excitement they still get from the game, they nevertheless find themselves in the grip of an awful pincer movement. Football keeps getting richer, but it's the fans who pay for it 2012-06-16T23:03:25Z And these forces are “acting like a pincer movement on the American worker.” Jumpstart Nation: The Clinton Global Initiative Tackles America’s Jobs Crisis 2012-06-08T13:30:18Z Unable to claim that it the controversy is merely got up by the Labour party seeking to gain cheap political points, the Chancellor finds himself in a pincer movement, caught between opposition and Government MPs. Pasties, grannies - and now caravan tax adds to Budget blunders 2012-05-18T06:30:00Z The downside is that fewer workers are being taxed, even as many also collect unemployment and social assistance benefits, placing Spain’s government in a tightening pincer of shrinking revenue and expanding outlays. Spaniards Go Underground to Fight Slump 2012-05-16T20:47:21Z Capistrano seized those implicated, tortured them to confession, and burned them, while a woman who was implicated was torn with red-hot pincers. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z The other arm of the pincers is financial. Football keeps getting richer, but it's the fans who pay for it 2012-06-16T23:03:25Z The Carolina, or criminal code of Charles V., issued in 1530, is a hideous catalogue of blinding, mutilation, tearing with hot pincers, burning alive, and breaking on the wheel. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z He is in fact represented as an idealized Greek craftsman, with the hammer, and sometimes the pincers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z He was followed by a tapestry-hanger with pincers and a ladder. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z In the Inquisitor’s chamber, the eye of God was ever on the boot and the thumbscrew, on the knife and the pincers, on the furnace and all the other instruments of torture. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z We were, thousands of us, trapped, in a pincer movement. Camila Vallejo, the World?s Most Glamorous Revolutionary 2012-04-05T21:31:06Z Bisher occasionally snapped his pincers at unruly spectators or players who he felt dishonored the gentleman’s game. An Appraisal: Masters Is Missing a Fixture: The Late Furman Bisher 2012-04-05T02:54:13Z Iron rules and squares in various sizes, shears, knives, compasses and spring dividers, folders, files, pincers and hammers of different sizes, chisels, gouges, and punches. Practical Bookbinding 2012-04-02T02:00:23.047Z A frightful anguish commenced to torture my heart as with red-hot pincers. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z Appoline, all of whose teeth were extracted at her martyrdom with pincers, was a favourite saint for appeal against toothache. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z At about two years and a half or three years of age, the adult middle teeth in both jaws protrude, and the pincers are becoming black and rounded at the ends. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z It is a much better instrument than pincers of all sorts and shapes. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Once or twice he dropped off asleep in sheer exhaustion, only to be awakened again a moment afterwards by the closing of sharp pincers on some portion of his body. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z The scalpel’s super-heated pincers clamped down like crab claws, searing the kidney from surrounding tissue. Lives Forever Linked Through Kidney Transplant Chain 124 2012-02-19T01:23:17Z As one approaches them they stand on their hind legs and wave their pincers threateningly, while they roll their hideous goggle eyes at one in a dreadful manner. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z From a paradise it was become a pandemonium where all that was best and noblest was torn by devils' pincers. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z If, by giving over her own tender body to the pincers of the torturers, she could assuage the growing trouble of the people, how gladly would she bare her breast. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Men have risen from reading the Bible and torn the flesh of others with red-hot pincers. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z Second, to have their tongues torn out by the roots with pincers of iron. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Before being put to death he was barbarously tortured with red-hot pincers, and molten wax, lead, and boiling oil were poured into his wounds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z His fingernails were torn out with pincers, and long needles thrust into the quick; but the courageous man made no sign. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z Could it be that his fiery nature was consuming, torn by the pincers of remorse? The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z The instruments of torture—the pincers, the thumb-screws, the racks, were produced by the word of God. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z We would tear it with pincers, and fire it with hot irons. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z Nails, hammers and pincers are constantly seen represented on his crucifixes, and are objects of adoration among his followers. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z Awful atrocities were committed on living victims, such as tearing off the flesh with red-hot pincers, pouring molten lead and brimstone into the wounds, and cutting out the tongue. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z 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 The cord and the pincers are in constant requisition in these present days of political convulsion. Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z An angel is dividing the sheep from the goats, and devils are drawing men and women to perdition, by fixing hooks or pincers on the portions of the body whence their sins sprang. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z Surgeon, attend with thy dissecting knife, Aim well the stroke that damps the springs of life, Extract his fangs, dislodge his teeth of prey, Clap in your pincers, and then tear away.— The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z Their hard as armor shelled body is a brownish-purple color, and each is equipped with two ferocious looking pincers. Dungeness crabbing trip in southern Puget Sound reveals eye popping experience 2011-12-29T20:09:36Z It may be easily bent with the pincers by first heating it to redness in a flame. 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 "Search in that turnip head of thine for means to bring the girl to me, or the palace cellars shall hear thee squeak thy self-praise to the tune of the cord or the pincers." Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z I must notice, too, that on other coins a hammer and pincers, or tongs, appear, as if the idea was to show that a maker, fabricator, or heavy hitter was intended to be symbolised. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z And the folk of the flat country say that Ghent died because her son had torn out her tongue with his iron pincers. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z Whoever goes to a dentist with an unbearable toothache may very well find himself thrusting away the dentist's arm when the man makes for his sick tooth with a pair of pincers. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z They went hastily to his assistance, and with a small pair of pincers removed the piece of stem which had stuck between his tongue and his windpipe, like the sound-post of a violin. San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z U Babam Doh quickly made a pair of pincers from a piece of bamboo, and soon had the bone removed. Folk-Tales of the Khasis 2011-11-01T02:00:19.730Z Later in the evening a boy with a basket of rolls wandered by and deposited one on my table with a pair of pincers. Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z And the people of the country round would say that Ghent was dead, now that her son had wrenched away her tongue with his pincers of iron. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z It is that motley-hued, melancholic flower in whose calyx one may behold a counterfeit presentment of the tools used at the crucifixion of Christ—namely, hammer, pincers, and nails. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Only his arm hanging in a splint burned with the fires of hell, as if imps with red-hot pincers were slowly tearing apart the nerves. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z It is well that you did not do as you say, for I should have given orders to nip you with those pincers which were heated for Plaska. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z This held hammer, wrench, hatchet, pincers, and other simple tools. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z And Reb Yechiel himself turned out to be a very honest, pious Jew, and I tell you, his heart was drawn to the Rebbe as if with pincers. Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z To manuscript Number 13, dated the year: 1208, was attached a pair of iron pincers, an instrument of torture, the tongues of which were serrated so that the teeth fitted exactly into one another. The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 2011-08-29T02:01:02.680Z There are no gaping wounds, tragic attitudes, wheels, swords, pincers or other attributes of martyrdom. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z It is soon to be seen how they will tear me with pincers! The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z Not if his flesh was torn by red-hot pincers! The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z A few days later he felt drawn to the bath as though by pincers. Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z Mao's armies were closing the southern half of a great pincers on Wu's troops, and only awaited the dawn to launch the final assault. The Image and the Likeness 2011-08-23T02:00:33.617Z "The nails were torn from the fingers with smith's pincers; pins driven into the places which the nails defended; the knees were crushed in the boots, the finger-bones splintered in the pilniewinks," etc. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Bevis took the iron block, or breech-piece, with his pincers, inserted it in the white-hot tube, and drove it down with a smart tap. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z There is a Victorian flavour to all this: a state-free pincer with titan philanthropy on one side and a melange of religious activity on the other. Kicking charities while Serco profits isn't a plan with legs 2011-08-03T19:59:01Z It was as if every muscle of my body were being drawn by red-hot pincers. A Cabinet Secret 2011-07-31T02:00:10.693Z Joseph and Nicodemus now began to draw out the nails with pincers; the cracking and splintering of the wood was heard, so firm was the iron. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z The long pincers, like those with which a blacksmith pulls out a shoe from the charcoal, were produced.... House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z Mrs. B. Yes, and most kinds of pincers; the great power of which consists in the great relative length of the handles. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z At last a pair of pincers was procured, and Mopela wrenched and twisted with all the strength of his muscular grip. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z I tried to be calm, but rage was throttling me, as if with pincers. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z As the pincers closed in, at the top of the salient, the German command appeared to go back to its original plan of attacking Rheims from the south. Our Army at the Front 2011-06-26T02:00:07.933Z Johnnie turned also, and saw that the torturer was tumbling several long-handled pincers into a wooden tray. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z Near the dog's kennel was a tool-box, likewise garnished with horse-shoes, and containing pincers, files, hammers, and other implements proper to the smith. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z If I, a poor slave, had committed the hundredth part of your crimes, I should have been bound upon the rack, hung up by the feet, lashed with thongs, burnt with pincers. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z At last the spider succeeded in seizing the base of the right pincer of the caterpillar, and tried to cut it, but in vain. Lost in the Jungle Narrated for Young People 2011-06-07T02:00:11.183Z When, hey presto! all the thing's donkey-face came off in a moment, and out popped a long arm with a pair of pincers at the end of it, and caught Tom by the nose. The Water-Babies 2011-06-04T02:00:14.223Z I allowed it to get partly cool, and then began to fashion it with my pincers into somewhat near the size and shape of the ring. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z The part of the pincers below the joint or hinge was about a span long, and of three fingers breadth, hollowed out at the points, one of which was curved, the other flat. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z Some had fenced round a small enclosure, and others had kindled a large fire, in which were heating pincers and long iron spikes wherewith they purposed torturing the Saxon chieftain. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Now and then, with its pincers, which appeared through the magnifying-glass to be very large in comparison with the size of the body, it would try to cut the large pincers of the caterpillar. Lost in the Jungle Narrated for Young People 2011-06-07T02:00:11.183Z “Dinochelus ausubeli” was the name conferred earlier this year on a strange deep sea monster, a lobster discovered off the Philippine coast whose right claw is elongated into a fearsome pincer. | Jesse H. Ausubel: Commodore of a Global DNA Census 2011-04-25T21:43:04Z When he turned round to look what it was, Br�sig held the pistol out to him, but without its dog head which he had just succeeded in twisting off with a pair of pincers. An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. III (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) 2011-04-14T02:01:02.690Z Taking the other end of these pincers in his hands, he easily directed them to the spot where he saw the shells lying. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z The patent pincers at the moment gave him a twinge, as they had several times during recent excitements. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z In less than fifteen seconds it returned to the task, and went at the left pincer, but with apparently no better success. Lost in the Jungle Narrated for Young People 2011-06-07T02:00:11.183Z His mouth was forced open with a pair of large pincers, and a piece of stick was thrust between the teeth to prevent the mouth closing. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z David procured himself a quantity of brown paper, with gum and pincers, sat on the floor by the pile, and, with an effort to breathe no faster than usual, set himself to work. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z A pair of wooden pincers is provided to put the fire in the pipe, and a double-pointed pin, to empty it of the remnant of tobacco which is not consumed. Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. I 2011-03-24T02:00:11.430Z At least he could loosen the buttons of the patent pincers. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z Then, after a while, its attacks were directed to a spot between the pincers. Lost in the Jungle Narrated for Young People 2011-06-07T02:00:11.183Z Then nine teeth were pulled out with the pincers. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z The concern among the necktie set about widespread job insecurity from the twin pincers of globalization and information technologies is real. A College Degree Is Still Worth It 2011-03-20T23:47:00Z I went underneath with a sharp pair of pincers, and, as he stood there with his toes pressed through the bars, I managed to pull the nails out. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 2011-03-20T02:00:35.193Z Standing room was not what Pape wanted—not with those patent pincers on his feet. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z The sensation of hunger I experienced can only be compared to that of twenty pairs of pincers tearing at the stomach. Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z They then proceeded to extract two of his front teeth with a hammer and pincers. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z The flat stones were being taken from the fire with wooden pincers and laid to form a rough pavement before the tent. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z Grandcourt is the second place, abandoned for the same reason—because it was caught in the pincers of our forward movements. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z However, the side areas also allow for pincer movements so there are pockets of violence continually exploding throughout the stadium. Gears of War 3: multiplayer hands-on 2011-02-28T14:27:19Z In Shoa, the practice of surgery directs the removal of a carious tooth with the hammer, punch, and pincers of the blacksmith. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z A small yellow button was finally detached with pincers. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z Indeed, the lower lip of a Dragon-Fly child might well frighten people, for it is fastened on a long, jointed, arm-like thing, and has pincers on it with which it catches and holds its food. Among the Pond People 2011-01-21T03:00:13.507Z To-morrow you must use pincers, only take care not to injure the statue. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z In the higher crustaceans the anterior legs form a pair of chelæ or pincers, and these are generally larger in the male than in the female. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z This recalling of innocence and joy in the hour of remorsefulness and woe; this is as heating red-hot the pincers that tear us. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z With a pair of pincers take each grape by the small stem and dip it into the sugar, and be sure it is entirely coated. The Century Cook Book 2011-01-04T03:01:10.367Z They have eight legs apiece, haven't they, besides the ones that have pincers? Among the Pond People 2011-01-21T03:00:13.507Z While he was gone, I cut a bamboo and split it half-way down to form a pair of pincers, which I knew would be of use to me should I get near the animal. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z In the one form the male is furnished with more numerous smelling-threads, and in the other form with more powerful and more elongated chelæ or pincers which serve to hold the female. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z I'm off to get the small pincers from father's tool chest. Betty's Battles an Everyday Story 2011-01-02T03:00:19.670Z This is of a quadrangular shape, the lower mandible much stronger than the upper one, and both swelling towards the tip, so as to resemble a forceps or pincers. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z But sometimes he straightens the joint and holds his lip out before him, and then its pincers catch hold of things. Among the Pond People 2011-01-21T03:00:13.507Z People who get paid a decent wage for skilled but routine work in manufacturing or services are getting squeezed by a pincer movement of technology and globalization. Restoring the American Dream 2010-10-21T09:00:00Z Bastian Schweinsteiger – 5 Tipped to captain Germany at the World Cup, his action-packed style was compromised by the pressing, pincer movement of the Inter midfield and he endured a frustrating night. Inter v Bayern Munich: Champions League final player marks out of 10 2010-05-23T08:00:00Z BP seems certain to be the target of a familiar pincer movement between lawsuits brought by state attorneys-general and similar suits by private litigators. Suing companies: On top of a wave 2010-05-20T13:25:00Z The bill of the Pique-Boeuf is fashioned as a pair of solid pincers, to facilitate the raising out of the hides of quadrupeds the larvae of the gadflies, which are there deposited and nourished. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z But on either side of the Bustan neighborhood there are disputes over recent Jewish settlement, and residents fear a pincers operation. Mayor?s Housing Offer Sets Off Row in Jerusalem 2010-02-25T17:34:00Z Crawfish are reddish, lobster-like creatures lacking large pincers but covered in spines and are found in exposed areas of rocky seabed around the coast. 2010-01-21T07:00:00Z This person made a raft of five logs, two fathoms in length, which he furnished with a stone anchor, a cable of birch-rope, a pole, and a pair of wooden pincers. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Asmody, lay him down close to the furnace, and now, a pair of pincers for each leg and arm. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 So it is, sir, by this sweet, honey language, I am choused out of my prizes, and must go on with my soap and razors and pincers and combs. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams By the crushing action of their pincers, and an alternate backward and forward movement, they bring the soft blood-holding tissues of the victim close to the minute pin-hole aperture which is the scorpion’s mouth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" The bishop condemned the Jews, heaped bitterness upon them, tortured them with red-hot pincers, finally burned them, and their guiltless souls ascended to heaven. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster And the nightmare clutch laid hold upon his heart with giant pincers. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath There were many vessels containing strong alkalies, tourniquets, and pincers, and shears lay on the tables and window-seats. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. Burl smiled widely and began to grasp the proffered tentacles, pincers and grippers. The Secret of the Ninth Planet He was torn in pieces with red-hot pincers—the torture lasting an entire day—while Margherita was burned at a slow fire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" "Who—me, mam?" exclaimed the Sergeant, hitting himself an amazed blow on the chest with the pincers, "me?" Our Admirable Betty A Romance Something clutched at his heart as with cruel pincers. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath The inhabitants rushed out upon him, nipped him with their pincers, and showed the greatest rage against the invader of their kingdom, while others with great celerity placed the eggs in safety. The Progressionists, and Angela. Between two minute wire pincers or serres, in the cylinder, was a very small piece of some tissue. The Social Gangster Having made this estimate and put all things in order, I took out a pair of pincers which I had abstracted from a Savoyard belonging to the guard of the castle. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII "Well, mam?" he enquired, staring at the pincers. Our Admirable Betty A Romance Yesterday there was recovered by means of divers and pincers, 13 silver coins, being Spanish piastres, 1 gold Louis d'or, 5 brass hoops and casks, and a quantity of cannon and shot. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day He first pierces the stem with his pincers; in consequence of this, the leaf curls up and becomes soft and pliable to the frail feet of the insect. The Progressionists, and Angela. These long pincers, terminating in two large lips, seemed to act powerfully on his imagination. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 The pincers clicked, and the King, with a smile of triumph at his little piece of dexterity, withdrew half-a-dozen folded sheets. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion Many who are now living have had the night-fears of their childhood made monstrous with stories of devils with red-hot pincers to tear one's flesh and with red-hot nails to lacerate one's back. The Book of This and That He looked them over with the pincers very carefully, and asked how much I valued them at. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes It has space for four lancets but contains only one lancet marked “Thompson” on the inner side of the shell cover, and a silver pincers. Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology Material for mending tires is absolutely necessary—a good monkey-wrench, oil cans, a tire inflator, pincers, and a reasonably good supply of small wire and twine for making repairs where such material is necessary. Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895 One, the A B C of all inquisitors, consisted of the indispensable rack, the attractive pulley with the weights for the feet, the useful hooks, the thumbkins, the red-hot pincers, the oil-bath, and the water-torture. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion Beyond occasionally hanging on to a red-hot bar too long and so letting their pincers be drawn through the mills, these men take precious good care not to go wrong. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel A pair of jaws or pincers, imitating the action of the fingers, alternately seized and released the needle on each side of the fabric. The Invention of the Sewing Machine Forthwith they were taken up in the pincers, and placed in solitary confinement in the glass phial, where it was supposed they had learned not to jump. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks Large pincers were glowing in a chafing dish, and in the centre of the room stood the dreadful rack with its fearful and mysterious equipments. Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist And the Young Stork added quickly, "Adieu, Kisika, take this pair of pincers to pluck from your heart the darts which may lodge in it." The City Curious But we must not delay long, for the Prefect has no need of my pincers and screws if he once takes it into his head to torture a man's marrow out of his bones. A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 The pincers were attached to a pair of arms arranged to be moved backward and forward by “any suitable mechanism.” The Invention of the Sewing Machine The glass was placed in position, the spectator looked through it, the performers were lifted in by the pincers, and the dance began—a mixture of the Highland-fling, the sailor's hornpipe, and a "regular" break-down. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks We had to pull the skin out with pincers. A Boy Knight Under Pope Nicholas Breakspeare, alias Adrian IV, Arnold of Brescia was burned alive—having first, we believe, had his nose wrung off with red hot pincers. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Then he took them out with a pair of pincers, laid them on an anvil, and hammered out neat points and hooks. A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 It used the two-pointed needle, with eye at mid-length, which was passed back and forth through the material by means of a pair of pincers on each side of the seam. The Invention of the Sewing Machine His own hand, a large club fist of the colour of mahogany, was like a mallet or a pair of pincers for a friendly grasp, and, tightly closed, would almost break a paving-stone. Toilers of the Sea He was conscious of a brief pain in one finger, and the next instant someone tore the finger out of his hand with red hot pincers. Insidekick He was condemned to have his flesh torn with red-hot pincers, and his body quartered and burned between the wheel and the gallows. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors In a corner of the room a stove, a rack and pincers are seen—no justice without torture and execution. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres The material to be sewn was held in clamps which moved it forward between the pincers to form a running stitch or moved it alternately backward and forward to produce a backstitch. The Invention of the Sewing Machine By the aid of his pliers and pincers, and by using his chisel as a screwdriver, he set to work to remove the two paddle-wheels of the vessel; an object which he accomplished. Toilers of the Sea These scissors, or, perhaps, rather pincers, are driven by steam-power, and bite off the solid iron as if it were merely strips of ribbon. The Hills and the Vale "Now, may the devil seize you with a hundred red-hot pincers, and hang three hundredweight on to the necklace, that it may throttle your bride!" The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II His finger nails were pulled off with a pair of pincers, and under what was left of them needles were inserted "up to the heads." A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 The geographical formation of the salient was an invitation for the application of a pincers operation. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" Then he availed himself of the two iron hands of the smith—the pincers and the pliers. Toilers of the Sea A pair of pincers in his hand he had, With which he pinched people to the heart.” The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), He was condemned to be burned with red-hot pincers, to be torn asunder by four horses, and to be quartered. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 What’s the harm? you are so young: those terrible men with the pincers and hot bars!” Callista : a Tale of the Third Century The point of leverage of the opposing jaws of the pincers was, most naturally, the apex of the triangle at St. Mihiel. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" At intervals this terrible circle opened a little, like a pair of pincers; showed a glimpse of the horizon, and then closed again. Toilers of the Sea The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear, And sighs and cries by nature grow on pain. The Revenge A Tragedy The little Frenchman took a keen knife and pair of pincers, and Bill giving one awful yell, the tooth was out, and his pains and perils at an end! The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes It should be seized with a forceps or pincers and slightly drawn clear of the surrounding tissues. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle One claw of the pincers—a claw some eight miles thick, bit into the east side of the salient near Pont-�-Mousson on the west bank of the Moselle River. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" The pincers gripe, the pliers handle; the one is like the closed hand, the other like the fingers. Toilers of the Sea I deserve that fiends should tear my flesh with red-hot pincers. Pepita Ximenez “I am, so kindly remove the pair of pincers you are crushing my arm with.” Officer 666 Pressure upon the hoof with blacksmith's hoof pincers causes pain and flinching. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle The claw of the pincers on the eastern flank of the salient began to bite in. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" This kind of pincers took from the ocean a portion of the sea, which it compelled to remain calm. Toilers of the Sea Under this was a row of long, delicate pincers, with coils on the handles to indicate that they might be heated to fiendish precision of temperatures. The Red Hell of Jupiter When you want a tool—bradawl, gimlet, pincers, anything—here they all are.” The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam Let that tongue utter one word of what those eyes see, those ears hear, and it shall be plucked from thy pretty mouth with hot pincers. The Pirate Woman One hour later the claw of the pincers on the western flank of the salient began to move forward. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" I hope I shall never hear the cruel click of his pincers anywhere near me! St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. Scribner's Illustrated He had told the congregation of scared servants and frightened labourers that they would be laid on red-hot bars in hell and that the devil would send demons to nip their flesh with burning pincers.... Changing Winds A Novel One of the pestilent “fire ants” of his country had managed to snuggle among the crevices of the lounge, and its nip was like that of a red hot pair of pincers. Up the Forked River Or, Adventures in South America Then he took a pair of pincers out of his box, and catching one half of the broken shoe, gave it a wrench. Dwellers in the Hills The jawlike pincers on it held the limp form of an officer in its sucking grip, while above, in a protuberance like a gnarled horn, a great eye glared into Thorpe's with devilish hatred. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 He snips off the stalks with his sharp pincers, and, when he has made a big enough sheaf, sidles off home with it to his burrow in the ground, to feast upon it. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. Scribner's Illustrated One twitch of those terrible rock pincers would have broken him in two pieces. The Planetoid of Peril The shaping will require considerable cutting and neat manipulation with pincers and hammer and tying with bits of wire. Taxidermy What could the slim beak of the swallow do against the redoubtable pincers of the sparrow, armed with a double and sharpened point? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. "It looks as though someone had held the letter in a—a pair of pincers." The Film of Fear The filaments, or legs, have pincers to seize their prey, when the petals close, so that it cannot escape. Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements The vast stone pincers were lifted from him; slithered to the ground beside him. The Planetoid of Peril The Russian armies in Poland were thus threatened with complete envelopment; they were caught between the closing jaws of the pincers, which were Mackensen and Hindenburg. The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War It was an application of the principle of the pincers, combined with a great frontal attack, used so often and so successfully by the Germans in their Russian drive. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War The anvil is a stone; the other implements are a pair of hand bellows, a hammer, a pair of pincers, a vice, and a file. A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies Only the next time I go cruising with Harry, I'm going to take a pair of cutting pincers to cut off the shanks of fish-hooks after he gets through fishing. Harper's Young People, July 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly In one hand the figure held a cornucopia, in the other a pair of pincers. Ghetto Comedies Then, for two years, Chillingworth tortured his victim as once inquisitors tortured men by tweaking the flesh with red-hot pincers. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character This is rather a family-dish than a company one; the bones cannot be well picked without the help of alive pincers. The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual This machine puts out sturdy little pincers which seize the edge of the uppers, pull it smoothly and evenly into place, and drive a tack far enough in to keep it from slipping. Makers of Many Things He remembered the poor madman whose body they had torn apart with red-hot pincers. The Saracen: The Holy War The executioner held up his pincers with a gobbet of burnt flesh caught in them for the crowd to see, then slung them so that the bit of meat flew through the air. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel There was no fiery hell, no red-hot pincers, no eternal frizzling and sizzling of the flesh, like unto that of the fish in Mr. Samuel's fish-shop. The Belovéd Vagabond And he really suffered as much as if he were being stretched on the rack and burnt with red-hot pincers. The Frontier In fine, to catch the hymenopters, whose sting is often formidable, it is necessary to have a pincers whose prongs are disposed like rackets and armed with coarse lace. Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 With Instructions for Collecting, Preparing, and Forwarding Objects of Natural History Written by The Professors Administrators of The Museum Of Natural History At Paris. And Instructions Relative to Anthropology and Zoology Time was when your pincers would have met in the flesh of maid or man who disturbed you in your work. Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy One executioner thrust his pincers through the front of the cage. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel On the ground was a large brazier beside which lay an immense pair of pincers. In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls Or, use red-hot poker, or red-hot nail grasped by tongs or pincers, or red coal from fire. The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) The Scarites now works at her for some time with his pincers, in order to reduce her to complete immobility, fearing lest she should escape; then he returns to the mouth of the charnel-house. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles But the Arab was watching for something of the sort to happen, and seizing the serpent with some pincers that he held in one hand, he cut off its head with a sharp dagger. The Olive Fairy Book He forced himself to watch as the cage moved slowly into the piazza and the executioners tore again and again at the victim's body with their red-hot pincers. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel While waiting the arrival of the pincers she asked her consort if he had any idea why she set such store upon the casket. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) These pincers are then thrown into circuit, and a powerful current is passed through the part which is to be soldered. Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 To enjoy it at his ease, he needs the peaceful darkness of the underground manor; and so the captive, seized by one leg with the pincers, is forcibly dragged along the ground. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Each morning he swept out and dusted his room and carefully made his bed, ornamenting it with flowers which he got the soldier from whom he had taken the pincers to bring him. The True Story Book Two executioners in blood-red tunics, their heads and faces covered with red hoods, stood on either side of the cage, each man holding in his hands a pair of long-handled pincers. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Pull fairly tight, but not too tight, and do not use pincers for this part; quarter-inch tacks will be best. Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 Some ended in pincers, others in barbed points, and others in clusters of flexible metal tentacles. The Cavern of the Shining Ones With their mandibles, those stout pincers, they lay hold of it through the froth; they tug at it, tear off a shred and retire to a distance to swallow it at their ease. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Any other man would have thrown the hammer or pincers at my head for such help, but Moshe-for-once had no temper. Jewish Children The two red-garbed executioners had set aside their red-hot pincers and were dragging the heretic up the ladder to the scaffold. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel It is precisely at these hours, at the hours when the little pincers of the gods especially nip and squeeze, that it is good to turn the pages of Fyodor Dostoievsky. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions I will have you torn piecemeal, I will have your eyes picked out with knives and your flesh torn by hot pincers! Athelstane Ford The legs are folded on the belly, the antenn� extended like the arms of a cross, the pincers open. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles The crew climbed out of her on to the ice armed with pickaxes, pincers, mattocks, and saws, and merrily endeavoured to cut a passage. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century The executioners thrust the ends of their pincers into the coals and held them there. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Round came the claws, wide open, and snapped shut close to his fingers; but he had grasped his prize at the one spot where the brandishing pincers could not reach him. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good They had seen the Virgin Mary descend from heaven with a crucifix suspended from her neck by a gold chain, and a hammer and pincers suspended from the chain, but without any visible support. The Huguenots in France From the moment that the pincers have made a gash in the vulnerable skin, the Rhinoceros is lost. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles The posterior part was armed with two pincers, e. e. shelly and elastic, which could be drawn asunder, and then resumed their original position. New observations on the natural history of bees For a moment he saw Sophia naked, being torn apart by the torturers' pincers. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Ha! ha! ha! a was for breaking my head with my own pincers. A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales There is no need of using cruel tortures like the rack, the iron pincers, or sending them to the stake; flogging is sufficient. The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church But what can such a cuirass avail against the bandit's ruthless pincers? The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Under the pincers appeared the remnant of a cylindrical body which had broken near the origin and remained in the female. New observations on the natural history of bees The larvæ may be distinguished from other aquatic creatures by the long insect-like body, three pairs of legs, and the "mask"—a flap with pincers at the end. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Then Weland strode as far as he dared into the Chapel and threw down all his shoeing-tools—his hammer, and pincers, and rasps—to show that he had done with them for ever. Puck of Pook’s Hill With a twist and an outward wrench he held up the nail between the tips of the pincers. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters Here, as a rule, the hunter lurks, motionless, with his pincers half open. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles The lenticular body was deposited as in every queen hitherto dissected; the pincers were situated under the excretory canal. New observations on the natural history of bees I touched the diamond, and then using the piece of cane as a pair of pincers, I contrived, after one or two attempts, to extract it. The Privateer's-Man One hundred Years Ago At a signal from the slave-raider, however, the scarred-face brute again withdrew the pincers from the fiery brazier, and applied them once more to the wretched prince's back. The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason If I could borrow a pair of pliers or shoeing pincers——" "Of course. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters We take off with pincers the skin of our heads; we spread our limbs under the ploughs; we cast ourselves into the mouths of furnaces. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul When in the body of the female, they are in the inverse position; what was above in the male is now below, and the extremity of the pincers directed upwards. New observations on the natural history of bees "If two minutes' yanking with a pair of pincers at a little bone is worth five dollars, then one day's hard labor in tilling the ground is worth just as much." Stories of New Jersey So saying, he took up a long iron instrument, fashioned like a pair of pincers and thrust it into the burning coals. The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason And there he found Jimmy Rabbit, in a white apron, and with a pair of pincers in his hand. The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit Sleepy-TimeTales They are just like pincers—you nip a bite and pick it up daintily, instead of spearing, or shoveling, as you do with a fork. Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries For this purpose, we prevented some of the queens from extracting the parts left by the impregnating males, and by dissection we discovered that the laminæ were pincers as we had conjectured. New observations on the natural history of bees Some burglars, in the same year, had their hands cut off, their arms pulled out with red-hot pincers, and were finally beheaded and cut in pieces. The Story of Rouen When a chemical law is explained, it is of small use to describe the retorts, dishes, and pincers which have led to the discovery of the law. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity And in his hand he held a big pair of pincers, which he had borrowed from his father while Mr. Rabbit was away from home. The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit Sleepy-TimeTales This curious remedy is applied for any pain in the stomach, however slight, even for sea sickness, and the marks are made with strong pincers. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The posterior part was provided with shelly pincers, under which and in the same direction was a grey cylindrical body. New observations on the natural history of bees Meanwhile it has been the work of a moment to order up a brazier, a pair of pincers, a poker, a headsman and an axe. Punch, or the London Charivari, July 1, 1914 Around are strewn the implements of labour—large cast-iron blocks, wooden mallets hooped with iron, crowbars, and pincers. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852 Jimmy Rabbit was so surprised that he let the pincers drop and jumped back. The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit Sleepy-TimeTales During this time they cling to the swimming legs of the parent by means of their pincers. Chatterbox, 1906 New Los Angeles, its back protected by the Salton Sea, was, like the original one, subjected to a pincer movement which strangled the promising life from it before it was two years old. Greener Than You Think When a feather is nipped off with pincers or cut with a knife the bird is quite insensible to the operation. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent Can a man who calls himself a Christian, coolly and deliberately tie up, thumb screw, torture with pincers, and beat unmercifully a poor slave, for perhaps a trifling neglect of duty? Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872 It was like the jaws of a pair of insentient iron pincers. The Lost Girl Tapping the heel of the shoe with a hammer and grasping the wall and bar between the jaws of pincers with moderate pressure will cause more or less flinching if the disease is present. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse With a pair of pincers he twisted the nail into the shape of a hook, and very soon filed, out a barb, and some notches in the shank with which to secure the line. A Voyage round the World A book for boys His pincers grew between his foremost eyes— Were toothed like saws, were venomous, and sharp, With claws on either end. Stories in Verse The nails were torn from his fingers with smiths' pincers; pins were driven into the places which the nails usually defended; his knees were crushed in the boots; his finger-bones were splintered in the pilniewincks. The Superstitions of Witchcraft His right hand was cut off at the wrist, his arms, his nose, his breast were cruelly torn with pincers; but no cry of anguish escaped the lips of Leclerc. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 When the outer skin begins to suppurate, it should be removed with a pair of pincers, and the patch treated as an open wound. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse "He knew all along that there has not yet been born into the world that other who could force the truth out of me with red-hot pincers." Debts of Honor Then, after taking off the crown of thorns Nicodemus took the pincers and began to pull out the nails from the hands of Jesus and bent the stiffening arms lovingly away from the cross. King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth "As if I were being pounded with mallets and torn by pincers." The Rainy Day Railroad War A frightful anguish commenced to torture-my heart as with red-hot pincers. Clarimonde On one occasion he made a special request for "three, four, or five devils, tormenting a soul with a variety of punishments—one using fire, another serpents, and another pincers." Canada Going afterward to Mentz, in Lorraine, he demolished some images, for which he had his right hand and nose cut off, and his arms and breasts torn with pincers. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs Ten of them are holding him by the beard with pincers, the others are thundering away at his ribs with their hammers. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore She was fearfully frightened by its large, grave eyes and vicious pincers, but the glittering of its body and wings fascinated her. The Adventures of Maya the Bee Not one of the preparatory barbarities of question, ordinary and extraordinary, or of the accompanying atrocities of red-hot pincers, melted lead, and boiling oil, was omitted. Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Roger looked forth into the sunny street, blinked, and, picking up a pair of pincers, returned to his watch. Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Others, they plucked off all the hair of their heads and beards with pincers. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs Their characteristic badge is a pair of pincers. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II She couldn’t see her assailant, her neck was caught in too firm a grip, but a gilt-sheathed arm passed before her eyes, and a huge head with dreadful pincers suddenly thrust itself above her face. The Adventures of Maya the Bee Of course it is, but it is not so unpleasant as to have your flesh torn off with redhot pincers. The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year Josie took a pair of small pincers, unwound the wire and cautiously withdrew the fuse from the hole. Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls His flesh was then torn with red hot pincers, and at last he was despatched by being torn to pieces by wild beasts. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs This boy’s duty was to receive the red-hot rivet with his pincers from the boy at the forge, and insert it in the hole destined for its reception, the point protruding about an inch. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships The feelers played about, groping, cautious, the pincers opened and closed. The Adventures of Maya the Bee No pincers and knives will be brought against you,—only Tongues. The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year Just you take them pincers, lay hold o’ the rascally thing, an’ haul him out. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers |
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