pincers

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Pincers of Technology Sir: A tremendous spiritual capacity persists in the simplest of minds, despite the almost overwhelming inhibition of the modern materialistic civilization.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pincers used after leather has been put on over raised bands in order to straighten them.

From Library Bookbinding by Bailey, Arthur Low

He still had the first Dollar he ever made, and it could not have been taken away from him with Pincers.

From More Fables by Ade, George

Pincers, pinch harder at the rushes, keep the light burning as long as possible, for each of us.

From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander

Friedrich's situation, grasped in the Three-lipped Pincers in this manner, is conceivable to readers.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas