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    paring


    1. Helen does as she is told, as she has done for the last week, palming a few sachets of Bliss with the doctor's consent and stuffing them into the jacket along with a dull edged paring knife


    2. He was sitting at his table paring shums, enough to put up for sale


    3. that the paring off had been mostly gender against gender


    4. Paring the right pair of pants with the right pair of heels


    5. I take the bag with sprouts and a paring knife out of the drawer, get a seat next to Diedie at the table and start to remove the outer leaves


    6. Donna put some ripe mangos and avocados on the cutting board and handed Sam a sharp paring knife


    7. So I see the task of identifying and starting the paring down of the military in the first 6 months of this new economy


    8. While the military and the president are paring down defense and bringing our troops home, I’d have congress push through the new taxation plan that gives industry the SS and Medicare tax savings needed to start hiring, and shifts the burden of personal taxation up to those who can afford it


    9. This is done safely by paring down the missions of the services to that of defense of the US, from our home bases


    10. 18 Example of Summary Military Force/Cost/Vulnerability In the process of paring down the military to a much smaller size, it is important to know what we have, what it costs to buy, operate and maintain the various parts, the size of forces, the locations, the vulnerabilities and the capabilities

    11. paring knife from the wooden knife holder next to the stove


    12. Check for doneness by inserting the tip of a paring knife into the center of one of the patties


    13. Pull or scrape the skin off with your fingers or a paring knife


    14. One hand tightly gripped the small paring knife that she held, tucked in the folds of her dress


    15. The small blade of the paring knife flashed again and again in the fiery light of the burning cottage which couldn’t compare to the intensity of the rage that had befallen Krista


    16. ones she could find at the bottom of the basket anything at all to get into a mans bedroom with her old maids voice trying to imagine he was dying on account of her to never see thy face again though he looked more like a man with his beard a bit grown in the bed father was the same besides I hate bandaging and dosing when he cut his toe with the razor paring his corns afraid hed get bloodpoisoning but if it was a thing I was sick then wed see what attention only of course the woman hides it not to give all the trouble they do yes he came somewhere Im sure by his appetite anyway love its not or hed be off his feed thinking of her so either it was one of those night women if it was down there he was really and the hotel story he made up a pack of lies to hide it planning it Hynes kept me who did I meet ah yes I met do you remember Menton and who else who let me see that big babbyface I saw him and he not long married flirting with a young girl at Pooles Myriorama and turned my back on him when he slinked out looking quite conscious what harm but he had the impudence to make up to me one time well done to him mouth almighty and his boiled eyes of all the big stupoes I ever met and thats called a solicitor only for I hate having a long wrangle in bed or else if its not that its some little bitch or other he got in with somewhere or picked up on the sly if they only knew him as well as I do yes because the day before yesterday he was scribbling something a letter when I came into the front room to show him Dignams death in the paper as if something told me and he covered it up with the blottingpaper pretending to be thinking about business so very probably that was it to somebody who thinks she has a softy in him because all men get a bit like that at his age especially getting on to forty he is now so as to wheedle any money she can out of him no fool like an old fool and then the usual kissing my bottom was to hide it not that I care two straws now who he does it with or knew before that way though Id like to find out so long as I dont have the two of them under my nose all the time like that slut that Mary we had in Ontario terrace padding out her false bottom to excite him bad enough to get the smell of those painted women off him once or twice I had a suspicion by getting him to come near me when I found the long hair on his coat without that one when I went into the kitchen pretending he was drinking water 1 woman is not enough for them it was all his fault of course ruining servants then proposing that she could eat at our table on Christmas day if you please O no thank you not in my house stealing my potatoes and the oysters 2/6 per doz going out to see her aunt if you please common robbery so it was but I was sure he had something on with that one it takes me to find out a thing like that he said you have no proof it was her proof O yes her aunt was very fond of oysters but I told her what I thought of her suggesting me to go out to be alone with her I wouldnt lower myself to spy on them the garters I found in her room the Friday she was out that was enough for me a little bit too much her face swelled up on her with temper when I gave her her weeks notice I saw to that better do without them altogether do out the rooms myself quicker only for the damn cooking and throwing out the dirt I gave it to him anyhow either she or me leaves the house I couldnt even touch him if I thought he was with a dirty barefaced liar and sloven like that one denying it up to my face and singing about the place in the W C too because she knew she was too well off yes because he couldnt possibly do without it that long so he must do it somewhere and the last time he came on my bottom when was it the night


    17. ” Picking up the paring knife once more, she said, “I’m makin’ a peach pie to have with lunch, your favorite


    18. Picking up the paring knife to slice the peach that she had just peeled, his wife said, “Even if it was five by both counts, won’t all of them be the same five for each of us


    19. This was what the work in Scotland had been about, too, he recalled as he wandered: the anonymity, the paring away


    20. "In point of fact," resumed Sir James, not choosing to dwell on "fits," "Brooke doesn't mean badly by his tenants or any one else, but he has got that way of paring and clipping at expenses

    21. ” As if on cue, Cole tosses a paring knife into the air and catches it nimbly between two fingers


    22. “Based on the shape and depth of the wounds, the weapon was probably a paring knife, but it wasn’t found


    23. The knife block on the counter had one knife missing, presumably the paring knife, which had likely been used to slice the lids off Tom Calhoun’s eyes


    24. Troy Wagner killed Tamara Gee by stabbing her fifteen times with a paring knife and in so doing, also killed Trevor, her unborn child


    25. When he was done with her, he let her drop to the floor, the paring knife, the spilled peas flung everywhere


    26. Weigh six pounds of pineapple, after paring, coring, and cutting in rather small pieces


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    Synonyms for "paring"

    paring shaving sliver

    "paring" definitions

    a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something


    (usually plural) a part of a fruit or vegetable that is pared or cut off; especially the skin or peel