A strong man doesn't fight long after the links of the nippers start biting into his flesh.
He pressed her flat up against a building and, holding her fast there with the pressure of his left arm across her throat, he got his nippers out of his pocket.
In this attitude, he took up a pair of Abram's nippers to fasten a link in his watch chain, which threatened to give way, so that he might very well have represented the master of the establishment sitting at his work.
An old man was sitting at a bench, with a pair of nippers in his hand, peering into some small object.
She patted his horse's neck affectionately, and Delaney, drawing the nippers from his belt, made as if to pinch her arm with them.
The arrowhead had buried itself below and behind the ear, butnippers were applied and the steel point was extracted.
Fastening nippers by taking turns crosswise between the parts to jam them; and sometimes with a round turn before each cross.
Glut used to prevent slipping, as sand and nippers glut the messenger; the fall of a tackle drawn across the sheaves, by which it is choked or glutted; junks of rope interposed between the messenger and the whelps of the capstan.
Selvagee nippers are used when from a very great strain the common nippers are not found sufficiently secure; selvagees are then put on, and held fast by means of tree-nails.
So that by putting on fresh nippers forward, and taking them off as they are hove aft, the capstan may be kept constantly going, and the cable is walked in without stopping.
Foretop-men employed to bind thenippers about the cables and messenger, and to whom the boys return them when they are taken off.
The surging or slipping of the cable when the nippers do not hold.
To clap on nippers closely, just at starting the anchor from the ground.
With an exclamation of anger he fell to work with the nippers again, Studd assisting him.
He pulled his own nippers out and they started to cut a path.
Lambert cut down the distance between them rapidly, and was not more than three hundred yards behind when the fellow began snipping the wire with a pair of nippers that glittered in the sun.
He found it to be the nippers with which the fence had been cut, lying in the bottom of the deep arroyo.
All these breaches were made within a mile on either side of the first cut, sometimes in a single place, again along a stretch, as if the person using the nippers knew when to deliberate and when to hasten.
Mr. Longdon, withnippers in place again, fixed on him a gravity that failed to prevent his discovering in the eyes behind them a shy reflexion of his irony.
Holding the disputed object, which he had put on his nippers to glance at, he presently, without speaking, looked over these aids straight at Nanda, who looked as straight back at him.
His companion, as if to look at him with a due appreciation of this, stopped swinging thenippers and put them on.
To be in truth literary had ever been her dearest thought, the thought that kept her bright little nippers perpetually in position.
Lord Mark took in through his nippers these balanced attributes of Susie.
It had buried its venomous nippersin her shoulder, prior to crawling away to die.
And then Laurence shudderingly noticed two round gaping orifices at the base of the throat, clearly where the great nippers of the monster had punctured.
Instead of penetrating his body, thenippers of the monster had struck upon the metal box.
By the light of the moon he could discern two slight dents; one upon the border of the quaint sprawling initials, where the nippers of the monster had struck.
Goram and Nippers father and mother and Pricillas father and mother and Chicks father and mother and lots of the people staid to shake hands with old Francis, but father marched rite out and Aunt Sarah and the girls two.
The reader of nice perceptions will here perceive that, it being morning, Turkey's answer is couched in polite and tranquil terms, but Nippers replies in ill-tempered ones.
Having all things arranged I called Turkey, Nippers and Ginger Nut from the next room, meaning to place the four copies in the hands of my four clerks, while I should read from the original.
So callingNippers from the other room, the paper was speedily examined.
Though of a very ingenious mechanical turn, Nippers could never get this table to suit him.
In short, the truth of the matter was, Nippers knew not what he wanted.
As he opened the folding-door to retire, Nippers at his desk caught a glimpse of me, and asked whether I would prefer to have a certain paper copied on blue paper or white.
Go to the next room, and tell Nippers to come to me.
Though concerning the self-indulgent habits of Turkey I had my own private surmises, yet touching Nippers I was well persuaded that whatever might by his faults in other respects, he was, at least, a temperate young man.
Now and then, in the haste of business, it had been my habit to assist in comparing some brief document myself, calling Turkey or Nippers for this purpose.
Just then the folding-doors opened, andNippers approached.
Accordingly Turkey, Nippersand Ginger Nut had taken their seats in a row, each with his document in hand, when I called to Bartleby to join this interesting group.
Sit down, Turkey," said I, "and hear what Nippershas to say.
The tables of the centre nippers have taken on a decided angular shape, and those of the lateral display no dubious tendency to assume that form.
At three years, therefore, the central permanent nippersare in apposition, and show wear, though to only a limited extent.
These animals are usually good servants, but this shape of teeth unfits them for being turned out to grass, as the cutting edges of the nippers are destroyed.
The corner nippers still look young to him who is acquainted with those signs which denote youth in the horse's teeth, and the coloured engraving will convey a fair idea of the aspect they now put on.
The detective threw himself upon Brady and with Kohen's aid got the nippers on his wrist.
You can take dose nippers off," said Kohen to the detective.
When alarmed they run in a confused and disorderly manner, holding up and clattering their nippers with a threatening attitude, and if suffered to take hold of the hand they bite severely.
The crab-catchers, however, soon learn to seize them by the hind legs, in such a manner as that the nippers cannot reach them.
A mule at three years old ought to have the central permanent nippers growing, the other two pairs uniting, six grinders in each jaw, above and below, the first and fifth level with the others, and the sixth protruding.
Their corner nippers will be larger than the inside ones, yet smaller than they were, and flat, and nearly worn out.
At four years the central nippers will be fully developed, the sharp edges somewhat worn off, and the marks shorter, wider, and fainter.
As the permanent nipperswear and continue to grow, a narrow portion of the cone-shaped tooth is exposed to the attrition; and they look as if they had been compressed.
When the central nippers are considerably worn, and the next pair are showing marks of wear, the tush will have protruded, and will generally be a full half inch in height.
At the age of three and a half or four years the next pair of nippers will be changed, and the mouth at that time cannot be mistaken.
The corner nippers are shed, and the permanent ones begin to appear.
Not having attained their full growth, they are somewhat lower than the others, the mark in the two next nippers being nearly worn out, and is also wearing away in the corner nippers.
There is nothing remaining in the bottom nippers by which the age of the mule can be positively ascertained.
At six years old the mark on the central nippersis worn out.
Having duly posted up the names and tender ages of hisNippers in his mark-book, Mr. Bull announced: "Now we must appoint the Cabinet Ministers for the term.
Then followed question time, which was a lively affair; for questions mean marks, and Nippers will sell their souls for marks.
At nine years old, cups leave the two center nippers above, and each of the two upper corner teeth has a little sharp protrusion at the extreme outer corner.
Eight to fourteen days after birth, the first middle nippers of the set of milk teeth are cut; four to six weeks afterwards the pair next to them, and finally, after six or eight months, the last.
At the age of two the nippers become loose and fall out, in their places appear two permanent teeth, with deep, black cavities, and full, sharp edges.
Some people would have put the nippers on him for the cow-thief that he was, and chained him to a deputy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nippers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
