1 Mr. Bounderby sat looking at her, as, with the points of a stiff, sharp pair of scissors, she picked out holes for some inscrutable ornamental purpose, in a piece of cambric.
2 He will sit poring over his book, and not know when a person speaks to him, or when one drop's one's scissors, or anything that happens.
3 To complain of cold in sitting out of doors, hatless and coatless, while Fairway told true stories between the cuts of the scissors, would have been to pronounce yourself no man at once.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is" 4 The lens discloses a large number of hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE 5 But what you are really looking for is the centre page of the Times with some holes cut in it with scissors.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville 6 You have also, no doubt, remarked that Miss Cushing has cut the cord with a scissors, as can be seen by the double fray on each side.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box 7 They pretended to roll the cloth off the looms; cut the air with their scissors; and sewed with needles without any thread in them.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES 8 The collar was a little jagged at the edge, and so came the long scissors to cut off the jagged part.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE FALSE COLLAR 9 "I know it," said the scissors.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE FALSE COLLAR 10 There was nothing to do but to bring out the scissors and cut the beard, whereby a small part of it was lost.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED 11 She was busy with needle and scissors, altering a mourning dress that Mrs. Elsing had lent to Mrs. Meade.
12 Melanie, strangely quick for one so recently in a faint, was rapidly cutting off his blood-soaked shirt with embroidery scissors.
13 Madame Ratignolle folded her sewing, placing thimble, scissors, and thread all neatly together in the roll, which she pinned securely.
14 Eliza turned to the glass, and the scissors glittered as one long lock after another was detached from her head.
15 She saw their sashes untied, their hair pulled about their ears, their work-bags searched, and their knives and scissors stolen away, and felt no doubt of its being a reciprocal enjoyment.