KERGUELEN, MARK BOAT reports last call from Cymena freighter(Gayer
Tong Huk & Co.) taking water and sinking in snow-storm South McDonald Islands.
She would frown, and carrying it downstairs, as if she had it in the
tongs, replace it on its bookshelf.
You couldn't get her to take a-holt of one of them with the
tongs. And if she turned over and found one in bed she would scramble out and lift a howl that you would think the house was afire.
What he preferred above all other things was the
tongs. This was because his "father" had forbidden him to have them lest he break windows and furniture with them.
I was so ragged and dirty, that you wouldn't have touched me with a pair of
tongs.'
Every one knows what a multitude of things --beds, sauce-pans, knives and forks, shovels and
tongs, napkins, nut-crackers, and what not, are indispensable to the business of housekeeping.
He put the ham in the middle of the floor, and hit it with the
tongs and with the shovel--bang, bang, smash, smash!
His thick black moustaches, curled every morning with hot
tongs by the barber at the corner of the quay, seemed to hide a perpetual smile.
Meg wanted a few curls about her face, and Jo undertook to pinch the papered locks with a pair of hot
tongs.
In half a minute I was as naked as a pair of
tongs! And dear, dear, to think of it: I was the only embarrassed person there.
correspondence, which they took with
tongs, dipped it in sea water,
In charge of it was the lean, grizzled, leatherskinned Sir Jules de Vac, and it was he whom Henry commanded to face him in mimic combat with the foils, for the King wished to go with hammer and
tongs at someone to vent his suppressed rage.