12 adjectives to describe scissors

" Ethelried heard him, and that night, when the moon rose, he stole into the field to cut it down with the giant scissors.

his little scissors suspended over one are a worse misery than the sword of Damocles.

She held it while he took a pair of sharp scissors, and cut its leg right off a little way above the broken place.

Examine one bronchus, carefully dissecting away the lung tissue with curved scissors.

7. A few nouns in our language do not change their form to denote number. (a) Some nouns have the same form, for both the singular and the plural [sheep, deer]. (b) Some nouns are used only in the plural [scissors, thanks]. (c) Some nouns have no plurals [pride, flesh].

She cut it with one stroke of the pruning scissors.

The other day we were shown a huge pair of rusty scissors whilst staying in Breconshire.

A 'brake' somewhat resembles a pair of very blunt scissors permanently fixed open at a certain angle, and rigidly supported at a convenient height from the ground.

In order to make splendor of attire counterbalance the humility of their role, they had slashed their sinful scissors into entire tapestries, mutilating vestments so as to arrange upon their breasts the head of a hero or goddess.

It's not work, cutting out a pattern isn't," said Miss Jenny, with her busy little scissors already snipping at some paper; "The truth is, godmother, I want to fix it, while I have it correct in my mind.

Penny looking-glasses in yellow gilt tin frames, beads of various colours, needles, cheap scissors and knives, vermilion paint, and coarse scarlet cloth, etc.

Then was the auspicious moment for Miss Wilkeson to have retired with dignity; but she stood at the door, twirling the fatal scissors in her hand, and waiting either to say something which did not come spontaneously, or to have something said to her.

12 adjectives to describe  scissors