What is "red-hot poker"

Usage examples of "red-hot poker".

He sounded as if all he required was a red-hot poker and a couple of thumbscrews.

Wemmick stood with his watch in his hand, until the moment was come for him to take the red-hot poker from the Aged, and repair to the battery.

He touched her cheek and she pulled away as if she had been touched with a red-hot poker.

A fifty-megatonner going off on a planetary surface didn't bear thinking about, and an X-ray warhead would be hike driving the red-hot poker of God into the surface over and over again.

A fifty-megatonner going off on a planetary surface didn't bear thinking about, and an X-ray warhead would be like driving the red-hot poker of God into the surface over and over again.

They might as well have been thumbscrews, pincers, and a red-hot poker, judging from his militantly upright attitude, evocative of expectant martyrdom.

The face, horribly seared by the frequent application of the red-hot poker, and further ornamented by the insertion, in the tip of the nose, of a tenpenny nail, yet smiled blandly in its less lacerated parts, and seemed, like a sturdy martyr, to provoke its tormentor to the commission of new outrages and insults.

As soon as I reached the fire-place, I snatched out the red-hot poker.

M'Todd had got hold of the red-hot poker, and was burning his initials in huge letters on the seat of a chair.

The poised pencil had obviously been dropped like a red-hot poker.

Two more hours went by, and Diego was picturing himself in Siberia, dragging a ball on each foot, or with his eyes burned by a red-hot poker.