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    pincers


    1. The mindune clacked its pincers in frustration when she left it


    2. Leese are not easy either, their beak is as powerful as one of his pincers and their pain sense is very limited


    3. The tentacles are no problem, his pincers could snip those up, but he had to be careful of the beak


    4. The big one raised and shook it's plume, clacking it's pincers as high as their faces


    5. Alexis was right, it was hard not to crunch bits of pottery or sea shells underfoot, and I was forced to step over a gang of red ants, dragging off a caterpillar and waving nasty-looking pincers at anything that threatened their mission


    6. With pincers biting


    7. them, its bony pincers snapping wildly at its back


    8. With a grunt of approval Djebal bent over him with a pair of pincers used to draw horse-shoe nails, and gripped the head of the spike in Conan's right hand, tearing the skin to get a grip on the deeply embedded head


    9. The pincers were small for that work


    10. But the Cimmerian, struggling up to a sitting posture, wrenched the pincers from his fingers and sent him staggering backward with a violent shove

    11. But somehow, clutching the pincers clumsily with both hands, he managed to wrench out first one spike and then the other


    12. Two monster bugs crashed side by side into the dark, metal bars, their giant pincers straining between the bars making loud, snapping sounds as they attacked the air wildly


    13. Dave could see, and even hear the metal bars bend under the mangling pressure of those huge pincers


    14. Its giant pincers opened wide for the opportunity to crush Dave, which it was quite capable of doing


    15. Relying on his incredible agility, he managed to avoid both snapping pincers, followed by his club coming down lethally hard on what Dave guessed was its head


    16. “Bye-bye, you ugly, f#@%ing bugs,” Dave mocked as he waved imitating their pincers with his thumb and fingers


    17. Why not just with my fingers? Pincers are much more fun and are scarier


    18. -Red-hot pincers could be used to forcefully tear out


    19. Another picture showed the examiners of the corpse lifting the head and using pincers to pull out two foot-long mandibles from its mouth


    20. With the pincers soon only 200 meters distant from each other and with their numbers dwindling steadily under the deluge of bullets, the Japanese finally decided to launch an ultimate suicide charge on the pincer commanded by Ingrid, rising from the tall grass and yelling savagely while rushing forward with their bayonets fixed on their long ARISAKA rifles

    21. Once the two pincers had joined up in the middle of the field, Ingrid had her force redeploy in a long extended line before slowly walking towards the divisional command post to flush out any remaining Japanese survivors


    22. Jehan and Isabelle looked on, fascinated, as a flying object grabbed with its big pincers a cut tree from one of the piles, lifting it and flying to the metal box with its load


    23. I could feel them pulling as if they were trying to separate the skin at the edge of the wound with a pair of pincers


    24. Two massive arms with pincers hang below the body


    25. By keeping still, as far in front of those spiteful pincers as he could, he might just stay alive


    26. Darek panicked as several more giant pincers moved toward him


    27. The pincers came clawing their way through the 302


    28. He spun the hand wheel in, pinning the piece between pincers, and when satisfied he cinched it all down, released the hoist mechanism and patted the horses away


    29. They used torture, such as hot pincers, the thumbscrew, and the 'swimming' of suspects, to force confessions of witchcraft


    30. These were visions from children’s nightmares: three-headed dogs with slavering maws, cockroaches the size of sheep, huge scorpions with pincers that would snap a man’s neck, six feet diameter spiders with fangs that would suck the brains from living skulls, giant cats that would torture and play with their human prey before they finally killed it

    31. For instance Hitler’s actual plan on invading Russia was not the usual frontal assault but a pincers invasion that was designed to go behind Moscow, depriving Stalin of all of the industrial factories and resources: which was later proven to be the only intelligent plan that would have worked


    32. It arched back and threw its big red pincers in the air


    33. “They’ve been sheared off with what looks like pincers,” he said, “loosening the nuts wasn’t good enough, whoever did this wanted to make absolutely sure


    34. They hаvе a раіr of "pincers" аt thе


    35. She would undoubtedly have been one of those who would endure martyrdom and would have smiled when they branded her bosom with hot pincers


    36. wooden pegs in the 'oints of their pincers,


    37. Pincers and hammers, mallets and chisels would not get it out of my grip; no, nor lions'


    38. man's mouth, and by the help of a pair of pincers drew the bone from his throat


    39. A Griever’s pulsating, bulbous body had squirmed halfway through the destroyed window, metallic arms with pincers snapping and clawing in all directions


    40. Darwin observed, to which nature has given the instinct and requisite strength to eat coconuts; it scrambles up trees on the beach and sends the coconuts tumbling; they fracture in their fall and are opened by its powerful pincers

    41. chisel, pincers, and lever


    42. I could barely glimpse the swift passing of longnose sharks, hammerhead sharks, spotted dogfish that frequent these waters, big eagle rays, swarms of seahorse looking like knights on a chessboard, eels quivering like fireworks serpents, armies of crab that fled obliquely by crossing their pincers over their carapaces, finally schools of porpoise that held contests of speed with the Nautilus


    43. fleshy pincers which had held it; "what a wrist!"


    44. As for him, the need of accommodating himself to her nature, which was inflexible in proportion to its negations, held him as with pincers


    45. Merry was trapped: another crack had closed about his waist; his legs lay outside, but the rest of him was inside a dark opening, the edges of which gripped like a pair of pincers


    46. Pulling out the nerves with red hot pincers requires more coolness than knocking on the head


    47. Cosette was between them, subjected to their double pressure, like a creature who is at the same time being ground up in a mill and pulled to pieces with pincers


    48. Claws and talons possess a monstrous sensuality,—the obscure movements of the creature imprisoned in their pincers


    49. I shall have a hammer, a chisel, and some pincers in my pocket


    50. When I think that I wanted to have my two girls taught the middleclass paper-box trade, the making of boxes for New Year's gifts! Well! A table with a board at the end to keep the glasses from falling off is required, then a special stove is needed, a pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of the paste, according as it is to be used for wood, paper, or stuff, a paring-knife to cut the cardboard, a mould to adjust it, a hammer to nail the steels, pincers, how the devil do I know what all? And all that in order to earn four sous a day! And you have to work fourteen hours a day! And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times! And you can't wet the paper! And you mustn't spot anything! And you must keep the paste hot














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