"Scissor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Here is the Kid on the subject: 'I looked around that house, and I seen I hadn't a friend in it. And then the gong goes, and I says to myself how I has one friend, my poor old mother way out in Wyoming, and I goes in and mixes it, and then I seen Benson losing his goat, so I ups with an awful half-scissor hook to the plexus, and in the next round I seen Benson has a chunk of yellow, and I gets in with a hay-maker and I picks up another sleep-producer from the floor and hands it him, and he takes the count all right.' . . Crisp, lucid, and to the point. That is what the public wants. If this ...
— Psmith, Journalist • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... amongst ourselves. We begin even now to miss the picturesque aspects of Gipsy life—the tent, the strange dress, the nomadic habits. English Gipsies are no longer pure and simple vagrants. They are tinkers, or scissor-grinders, or basket-makers, or travel from fair to fair with knock-'em-downs, or rifle galleries, or itinerant shows. Often they have some ostensible place of residence. But they preserve their inner life as ...
— Gipsy Life - being an account of our Gipsies and their children • George Smith
... to bed, and if the disease is recovered from, his capacity for walking may be seriously impaired, especially if the joints become fixed in an undesirable attitude. The most striking deformity occurs when both limbs are adducted so that they cross each other—one variety of the "scissor-leg" or "crossed-leg" deformity—in which the patient, if able to walk at all, does so by forward movements from the knees. An attempt should be made by arthroplasty to secure a movable joint ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles
... carrying a circular piece of a leaf vertically over its head. These insects are peculiar to tropical America, and are much dreaded in Brazil, where they soon despoil valuable trees of their foliage. They cut the leaves with their scissor-like jaws, and use them to thatch the domes at the entrance ...
— The Andes and the Amazon - Across the Continent of South America • James Orton |
