"Scissors" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... took a can of tobacco, a pipe, a pair of scissors, a paste-pot and brush, a pile of copy paper, a penknife and three half-lengths of ...
— The Cruise of the Jasper B. • Don Marquis
... answered me with a torrent of abuse, so the count ordered a pair of scissors to be brought, that the beards of the filthy rogues might be cut off. At this awful threat the two friars made their escape, and we ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... lock of the patient's hair, marks it, "Mr. Smith's Hair, October, 1910." Then he clips off the lower part of the ear, and wraps it in paper, and labels it, "Part of Mr. Smith's Ear, October, 1910." Then he looks the patient up and down, with the scissors in his hand, and if he sees any likely part of him he clips it off and wraps it up. Now this, oddly enough, is the very thing that fills the patient up with that sense of personal importance which is worth paying for. "Yes," says the bandaged patient, ...
— Literary Lapses • Stephen Leacock
... pp. 302-3, is to be found the following note, inserted by Humayun: 'At this same station,' the station of Shahabad, on the left bank of the Sarsuti, reached on the march to Panipat, 'and this same day,' March 6, 1526, 'the razor or scissors were first applied to Humayun's beard. As my honoured father mentioned in these commentaries the time of his first using the razor, in humble emulation of him I have commemorated the same circumstance regarding myself. I was then eighteen years of age. Now that ...
— Rulers of India: Akbar • George Bruce Malleson
... only be trusting to fear of Mrs. Crabb restraining me," he decided, and he marched into the school-room next morning, ostentatiously displaying his wife's largest scissors. His pupils crowded in after him, and though he noticed that all were strangely quiet and many wearing scared faces, he put it down to the coming scene. He could not resist giving one triumphant glance at Tommy, who, however, ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie
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