7 adjectives to describe tong

Accordingly, they have ordered a massive and handsomely engraved pair of silver tongs, and a splendid silver fire-shovel.

You can guess the sort of thing the letter said without my telling you.' Margaret leaned forward and poked the small wood fire with a pair of unnecessarily elaborate gilt tongs, and she nodded, for she remembered how Lord Creedmore had mentioned the child that afternoon.

I had brushed his hair to a nicety and had even curled his forelock with heated tongs.

Mens immota manet, though the body be torn in pieces with wild horses, broken on the wheel, pinched with fiery tongs, the soul cannot be distracted.

But if you doubt your peril, watch" and taking the rusty fire-tongs from the grate he carefully placed them on end in front of the deep old armchair in which I had sat, and then allowed them to fall against the edge of the seat, springing quickly back as he did so.

"With wooden tongs, the woman took a large coal from the fire, and laid it on the ground in front of the sacred stem.

I know my hands went outI saw them in the glass; then they fell straight down at my side, and I looked and looked at myself till I saw all the terror go out of my face, and when it was quite calm again, I stooped down and pulled out the little tongs I had been heating in the fire, and laid them quickquick, before I could be sorry againright across my cheek, and then" Uproar in the court.

7 adjectives to describe  tong