Dressmaker's need

Usage examples of shears.

In contrast, a food mill shears more cells apart by scraping them across the screen as you turn the handle, but it is possible that our precooking technique will permit the use of a food mill without fear of gumminess and produce a perfectly smooth result at the same time.

With all brushes, when the holes have been properly filled, the ends of the fibres outside are cut with shears, either to an even length or such form as may be desired.

The thirty shearers, running into the nearest pen, dragged each his sheep into the shed, in a twinkling of an eye had the creature between his knees, helpless, immovable, and the sharp sound of the shears set in.

He could hardly have felt less miserable if somebody had sunk a pair of fleecing shears up to their handles in both eyes.

A springy bundle of cypress teetered, then tipped like an unfolding set of shears and swan-dived onto the pavement.

Here was the antlered figure of Guthlac, and the double-faced head of Simyits, a harp for Garin, the patron of harpers, and shears for Dort, the patron of sheepshearers and all in the wool trade.

They marched through the west gate, under a white banner with great yellow shears centered on it.

Ferrault, reverting to his usual cheerful demeanor, pointed out the carved stone sign for Sorellin, shears in a circle on top of a pillar.

Carrying the shears in the same hand he used to clutch the relic, Gilbert walked across the room to where Briana sat on the edge of the gurney.

Briana raised the shears and aimed them at a point between her breasts.

But her muscles tensed in preparation as she aimed the shears at her own heart.

It flew open, and he selected a bandage shears, with a blunt wafer for the lower jaw.

It was amazing how easily and swiftly the shining shears snipped through the crusty rag around the wound.

It almost seemed as though the shears were driving his fingers instead as they scissored a clean, light line through the bandage.

He replaced the shears in their ioop on the extraordinarily big board that the little black bag turned into when it unfolded, and leaned over the wound.