85 collocations for clipped

" "Could not your eccellenza set me about clipping the wings of the lion, or painting a better picture than Tiziano di Vecelli?

Moreover, let me tell you that ye are upon Robin Hood's ground, and should he find you seeking to rob an honest craftsman, he will clip your ears to your heads and scourge you even to the walls of Nottingham.

Then, with almost exasperating deliberation, the head of the police force clipped the end of his own cigar, held a match to it, replaced the box in his desk and took up his post before the firewith his back to it so that he could watch Carroll's face.

" Obviously, Mr. Lew Kaminer clipped his coupons.

Then there came the barber and he shaved Sir Lamorack and clipped his hair, and when he was thus bathed and trimmed, his nobility shone forth again as the sun shines forth from a thick cloud that hides its effulgence for a while, only to withdraw so that the glorious day-star may shine forth again with redoubled splendor.

"Better separate, and attack 'em from two different angles, hadn't we, Tom?" panted Jack presently, as a shot was heard and something clipped a twig from a bush within a foot of his hand.

"The story which I have to relate," he began in his careful English, clipping his words a little now and then, "has to do with the theft of the famous Michaelovitch diamonds.

He took to talking with his fellow-workers, some of whom had themselves fought with the rebels of New China, who, with just such Foreign Devils' tools, had clipped the claws of the Manchu Dragon, freeing the Celestial Kingdom forever from its crooked grip.

" With a heavy sigh, Time clipped the lock from his brow and handed it to the youth, who quitted the place unmolested by any of the monsters.

His second shot took the hat low down on its right side, and clipped away a bit of the brim.

Marry, here's a stammerer taken clipping the king's English, and the constable and his watch hath brought him to you to be examin'd.

" Mrs. Coblenz threw her glance out over the crowded room, surging with a wave of plumes and clipped heads like a swaying bucket of water which crowds but does not lap over its sides.

It will be needful, if it be wet weather, to clip their tails, lest these draggle, and so weaken the bird.

In "Wily Beguiled," 1606: "I'll clasp thee, and clip thee; coll thee, and kiss thee, till I be better than nought, and worse than nothing."

It was suddenly broken by the tailor, who clipped the thread with which he had just finished the garment, cast every thing from his hands, threw his spectacles upon his forehead, and, leaning his arms on his knees in such a manner as to form a perfect labyrinth with the limbs, he stretched his body forward so far as to lean out of the window, riveting his eyes also on the ship, which still attracted the gaze of his companion.

They don't do it because they love us, but because they expect to buy heaven by washing our feet and giving us what little they can clip and snip off from their abundance.

I have clipped my beard and hair, removed the earrings, and thought of modifying my attire.

I never waste powder, eithercan clip a coin every time.

Over this, in front, is tied tightly round the waist, so as to keep all trim and compact, a dark apron, the string of which passes over the little fulled skirt of the jacket behind, and makes it stick out smartly and tastily, while it clips the waist in.

And I sat the whole of Midsummer night, and clipped fashions for spice-nuts.

In the middle of the floor sat a woman who held the goosey-gander tight to clip his quill-feathers.

The keeper had marked some of them, on letting them out, by clipping the dorsal fin.

With his back toward Thorne he said, half laughing, "Perhaps Gregson was afraid that the fellow who clipped off his finger would get him through the window, eh?" He pretended not to perceive the effect of his words on the senior engineer.

" We clip the following for the benefit of those who doubt the power of the press: "Owing to the overcrowded condition of our columns, a number of births and deaths are unavoidably postponed this week.

But off thou goest with us to have thy brush clipped forthwith."

85 collocations for  clipped