You give me a sharp pair o' shears and I can cut out as fine a lookin' davil as you or anybody need wish for!
That gentleman ran out furiously, shears in hand, and with these instruments it seemed to be his intention to sever the epiglottis of Mr. Jinks, or at least his ears.
If the boat is a small one it may be lifted in by hand, but if it is a large one a pair of shears must be rigged.
The small pair of bronze shears or scissors, which are shewn of their full size, Plate XIV.
When they had eaten, she gave him a pair of gold shears and said: "The first test is that you take these shears and keep them, and give them back to me to-morrow noon.
But when they had unlocked the chest and looked, there were no shears there.
But at the moment he was dropping the shears into the chest, the comrade caught them up.
What manner of care did you take of the golden shears I gave you yesterday, my friend?
The princess could not have been more frightened had he thrown the shears in her face.
But after they had eaten, she looked very solemn, and asked in the sweetest manner: "You probably still have the shears I gave you to take care of yesterday?
I have set him a test, and here are the shears that he was to keep and guard.
The youth looked through all his pockets; but his shears were not there, and he was more than unhappy when he realized that he had lost them.
But the princess was so merry and active, and so full of fun and nonsense, that he thought neither of the shears nor of himself, and while they were laughing and joking, she secretly robbed him of the shears without his noticing it.
No mention is made of the use of shears for cutting the semi-molten glass; they are replaced in a measure by shaping tools of wood.
Finally, the edges are finished off by shears and scissors of various forms, which cut the hot glass as if it were a piece of soft leather.
The glass, held by the pontil attached to the foot, is completed by reheating the severed edges of what is now the bowl, cutting them even with the shearsand rounding them by a second exposure to the fire.
So after that I washed his face for him and cut his hair, and made him look decent, but I didn't crop his ears, though the shears went very near them two or three times.
The widow listened to this tender allusion to the shears without a smile of gratitude.
Cut, cut, went knife and shears till only the stock was left, and then into a carefully made slit in the bark was placed the navel bud.
A good shearer shears seventy or eighty sheep in a day; men of extra dexterity shear a hundred.
Figs or dates cut with shears into small pieces may be used and the pudding served with orange or any of the sauces already given.
Cut cranberries in halves and raisins in small pieces with the shears and add to syrup.
Uncle wanted those shears badly, so he received us with the buggy whip--and he didn't draw the colour line either.
We had broken a new pair of shears digging out those grubs from under the bark of the she-oaks, and had each taken a blade as his own especial property, which we thought was the best thing to do under the circumstances.
The old man had not heard his mistress but he had seen her, and after staring open-mouthed at the couple at the gate, he came scurrying like a rabbit, dropping his shears on the wall.
He saw himself turn to this man: He roused from his trance, he staggered to his feet, the shears rattled to the floor.
Then, turning again to the mirror, with a shrug of the shoulders, he raised the shears to his beard.
There were eight sheep shears; half of a sheep shears was found in Structure G (USNM 59.
Our tired Schneider complained of the evil to a pious hermit, who advised him, the next time the Prince of Darkness made his appearance, to take the shears and cut off his tail.
But the shears remained a long time as an heirloom in the family, and their form was sculptured on his tombstone in remembrance.
I begin again with a ligature of iron wire, on which the shears of the insect can obtain no purchase, and a tender Mouselet, half the size of an adult.
I hear the click of the shears that completes the rupture.
Tenaciously the shears gnaw at the bond; the vegetable fetter is severed and the Mouse falls, to be buried a little later.
You have severed them, as well as the hammock of the previous experiment, just as you sever with the blades of your shears any natural filament which stretches across your catacombs.
Under the conditions devised for the Beetle, the use of the shears is the indispensable complement of the use of the shovel; and the modicum of discernment at his disposal is enough to inform him when the blades of his shears will be useful.
The crowd drew off, for none of them cared to offend this autocrat of the shears and razor.
I saw the garden-shears glitter, the white hair shine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shears" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: hatchet; jackknife; pick; snip; tool
