He had the care of the cistern and the casks, and also amused himself with carpentering; it was from him I stole the pincers which I used in order to draw out the nails from the holdfasts of the hinges.
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.
These words bred a great enmity between him and me, so that I was obliged to use precautions to conceal my tools; that is to say, my pincers and a great big poniard and other appurtenances.
The pincers squeeze suddenly but at intervals and methodically, as though the manipulator wished each time to judge of the effect produced; the squeezes are repeated until I am tired of trying to count them.
The caterpillar is grabbed by the neck with the mandibles, wide, curved pincers capable of embracing the greater part of the living cylinder.
This haggard son, speaking as from a sepulchre, had the incongruity which selfish levity learns to see in suffering, and until the unrelenting pincers of disease clutch its own flesh.
He was completely covered with a large mourning cloak, under which his bare breast was prepared to be torn by the red-hot pincers of the executioner, which were lying ready in a chafing-dish fixed to the cart.
But sometimes he straightens the joint and holds his lip out before him, and then its pincers catch hold of things.
When the scorpion fly, standing still, raises above its head that pair of pincers which forms its tail, it seems almost like some two-headed monstrosity.
He looked questioningly about the four walls, discovered a cleverly contrived tool-box beneath the cupboard shelves sorted out a pair of pincers and bits of iron, laying the latter in a row over the oil blaze.
With the pincers he picked up a bit of hot iron and dropped it hissing into the pail, which he pushed beneath the tent.
The body is divided into two regions, the anterior bearing, besides the parts used in taking food, a pair of large pincers and four pairs of walking feet.
Another peculiarity of the third leg is the nature of the joint between shin and foot, which constitutes a sort of pincers useful in manipulating wax.
The length and armature of the pincers and the presence or absence of wings are perhaps the most important features used by systematists in distinguishing the various kinds.
These differences suggest that the pincers aid in the pairing of the sexes.
In the male, moreover, the pincersare caliper-like and toothed at the base, whereas in the female they are untoothed and only lightly curved at the tip.
Even the Little Dentist put his pincers back into his pocket, though he still looked wistfully at Ann, who avoided his eye as much as she could.
Then, slowly and prudently the animated pincers would come protruding again through the opening of their cylindrical scabbards, floating in the water with anxious hope.
A wrench followed; a yell was the result, and the pincers slipped!
Bremner threw all his strength into a final wrench, which tore away the pincers and left the tooth as firm as ever!
Bremner introduced the pincers slowly, being anxious to get a good hold of the tooth.
Scourges and red-hot pincers will not shake her, alive; and dead, she will be of no use whatsoever to you, while she will be of great use to Cyril.
Pincers are of bronze and iron, and vary considerably both in size and form, as may be seen from the illustrations (=Fig.
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.
Could it be that his fiery nature was consuming, torn by the pincers of remorse?
Then, going to the bag, her compressed lips twitching, her gray eyes piercing into its clasp with a kind of distrustful optimism, she lifted the pincers and tweaked it hard.
Then with her pincers she took him by the breast; but, as he had changed her iron pincers for the wooden ones, he hardly felt the pinch, and she did him no harm.
Dante first took up the hammer and flung it into the road; took up the pincers and flung them into the road; took up the scales and flung them out into the road.
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 foul white birds again attacked us as we climbed from rock to rock, and the ugly crabs waved their pincers at us with menacing gestures.
The king endured three grips with the pincers without speaking or crying, but then he burst forth into cries of, "Father, have mercy on me!
On the night of Sunday before Monday morning broke, Ursula Kuendig and the servant man Heinrich went upstairs with pincers and drew out the nails that transfixed Margaretta.
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.
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.
The lenticular body was deposited as in every queen hitherto dissected; the pincers were situated under the excretory canal.
Under the pincers was a little half coagulated seminal fluid at the bottom of the vulva.
Under the pincers appeared the remnant of a cylindrical body which had broken near the origin and remained in the female.
When the work is finished, the scoundrel buries himself in the sand, right at the bottom of the funnel; his pincers alone appear outside, ever ready to snap, but nevertheless hidden as far as possible.
The sentence imposed upon him included the additional torture of being torn with red hot pincers as he passed along the road to the bridge, where he was to be beaten to death.
This was protected by iron plates fastened in with nails, to extract which Cellini used a pair ofpincers he had purloined from the carpenter and cooper of the castle.
Take hold of both ends of the wire with the pincers and twist them close to the copper rod.
Shape socket for the candle: Heat the top at a low heat and with a pair of round-nosed pincers shape up as shown.
John the Baptist and Peter, in front of whom kneels a man who holds the pincers as an implement of the Passion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pincers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
