She turned quickly, and took the scissors from the dressing-table and cut the cord, which was a piece of old fishing-line, frayed and worn by friction against the rocks of the river.

She saw the mark of the Annapolis express office, and hastily snatched up scissors to cut the string.

Mrs. Byron convulsively clasped her son to her one moment and threw the scissors and tongs at him the next, calling him "the lame brat," in reference to his club foot.

And Rose, who had been forbidden to touch the scissors, presided over the paste, with which she smeared herself even to her hair.

And dost thou not likewise think, that if ten or twenty of the lustiest Noblemen's estates of England were cleverly sliced among the indigent; would it not strangely refresh some of the poor Laity that cry "Small Coal!" or grind scissors!

They there commenced farming on a small scale, and often supplied us with milk, eggs, poultry, &c. Mammy was a firm believer in signs of good and evil import; thus, if, in dropping the scissors, they stood up erect on the point, she always said that visitors were cominga sign that rarely failed, as we were seldom a day without them.

"Isn't it permitted?" "Sylvia left her scissors in the arbor, and I can't find them.

"He glared at me with such furious suspicion that I instinctively opened my scissors and looked at the neighborhood of his carotid.

Seeing her desperation, I begged her to be pacified; that she would hear me speak but one word; declaring that I intended no dishonour to her: and having seized the scissors, I threw them into the chimney; and she still insisting vehemently upon my distance, I permitted her to take the chair.

The fields were empty, the leaves were beginning to fall, and many a hectic person felt the scissors on his life's thread.

I ran to the bureau and found a scissors.

Next to him perched the Barn Swallow, a bit larger, with a tail like an open pair of glistening scissors and his face and throat a beautiful ruddy buff.

I began very deliberately, for I could hardly hold the scissors and was afraid that he would notice the tremor; which, in fact, he did.

Thus, when he left the sisters, they already felt relieved and had again turned to their little boxes while smiling at their son, to whom they had once more intrusted the scissors in order that he might cut out some paper men.

" "You think an infernal falsehood, sir!" "See here, sir," said the doctor, without ceasing to ply his dexterous hands in his art, "I'll jab these scissors into your back if you say that again.

His confidant in this delicate matter is Cutbeard the barber, who, unlike his kind, never speaks unless spoken to, and does not even knick his scissors as he works.

Then she laid down her scissors, flushed, and looked at Miss Anna.

Can any one lend me pocket-scissors or a penknife?"

He lifted the scissors and with one stroke destroyed the web, and gave the Fly its freedom.

Ostrich farmers, it appears, are on the verge of ruin as the result of their inability to obtain scissors and other suitable foodstuffs for the birds.

" "I wish I could play scissors again, and rescue somebody else that I know," answered Joyce.

Again the Fairy touched the scissors, saying: "Giant scissors, bridge the path, And save us from the Ogre's wrath.

" Messrs. Wilkeson, Overtop, and Maltboy asserted, without rising from their seats, that they had not seen her scissors, and doubted very much whether the scissors were in that room.

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.

The delicate blade of this improvised screw-driver snapped off in an instant, whereupon Jarley tried the scissors, with similar results.