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  • He needed a shave; his fingernails needed paring.†   (source)
  • Under the Indian's critical eye, Matt shaved down the branch, paring off the thinnest possible shavings.†   (source)
  • I looked at my hands, thinking about all they had said, paring it down wearily.†   (source)
  • At her suggestion, I pare off my nails with a knife.†   (source)
  • A long wallboard hung with cutting instruments which went all the way from paring knives to twohanded cleavers hung beside a four-basin sink.†   (source)
  • Sethe touched the fruit and picked up the paring knife.†   (source)
  • In one hand, I remember, he carried a green apple, a small paring knife in the other.†   (source)
  • The neighborhood guards Pare armed, needless to say.†   (source)
  • That and the fact my body seems to be completely numb, though to look at me, at the leg that the 60 mph asphalt exfoliant has pared down to the bone, I should be in agony.†   (source)
  • "I'm leaving tomorrow for a sales conference in Portland," Mr. Powell explained, peeling an onion over the sink with a small paring knife.†   (source)
  • It stripped his thoughts of the words that described them and left them pared and naked.†   (source)
  • "Would yeh be turible of-fenced if'n Oi pared et down tae Schiem?"†   (source)
  • Yet even this pared-back phone, this phone stripped of so much of its potential, allowed him to access Nadia's separate existence, at first hesitantly, and then more frequently, at any time of day or night, allowed him to start to enter into her thoughts, as she toweled herself after a shower, as she ate a light dinner alone, as she sat at her desk hard at work, as she reclined on her toilet after emptying her bladder.†   (source)
  • On it were several paring knives, a corkscrew, an oversized container of sun lotion, and a water bottle.†   (source)
  • Once more I searched the house for tools or weapons, and finally selected a sharp-pointed paring knife from the kitchen.†   (source)
  • He rubbed his feet with his hands and then drew his knife from its sheath and began paring bits of skin from his toes.†   (source)
  • "There are too many students who arrive at high school not pre- pared to do high school work," Richard P. Mills, the education commissioner of New York State, noted recently, "too many students who arrive at high school reading, writing, and doing math at the elementary level.†   (source)
  • After exchanging greetings, Roran motioned toward the bandage on Delwin's forearm, where a tavern keeper had cut him with a paring knife.†   (source)
  • It wasn't hard to pare the list; there were only four homes listed, and he was immediately able to eliminate two of the larger ones since he didn't need that much room.†   (source)
  • My life, for reasons beyond my control, has been pared down to the simplest elements.†   (source)
  • And we'd been a week on the way last night, when up pops a New Moon as thin as a nail-paring, as if we had never stayed no time in the Elvish country.†   (source)
  • One minute she is sitting in front of me paring an apple, and the next minute her head is back on the sofa and her mouth is open in sleep, like a newborn baby.†   (source)
  • So while a character might make a sound that creates the words for"pare," "pair," or "pear," context usually makes the meaning clear.†   (source)
  • Otis led him into the kitchen, where he rummaged through several drawers before finally withdrawing a paring knife.†   (source)
  • She'd done her best to give him a pared-down version of Jocelyn's tale, mostly hissed under her breath as he'd helped her plow through the crowds to the dais and take her seat there.†   (source)
  • Either way, Carlos was pre-pared.†   (source)
  • The staff had been pared down, and Dewey had hung on by virtue of being the only six-feet-four, bull-necked, plank-shouldered security guard who could type eighty words a minute and claim awesome computer skills.†   (source)
  • With a faint smile, Branna plied her paring knife.†   (source)
  • He gives the knot a yank; cuts off the ends evenly with a paring knife.†   (source)
  • Consequently, the Formalities were pared down more and more each time the group gathered, and there had even been talk of eliminating them altogether.†   (source)
  • Nothing helped when the time came to pare away the rotten flesh.†   (source)
  • The Glatun, between the power of implants and the power of their AIs. had pared away most of the excess.†   (source)
  • She had been pared down like this before, when she had travelled up the mountains into rare snow-alone in white not unlike being alone in black.†   (source)
  • Her paring knife stopped moving and she listened to the rhythms moving out from the milkhouse through breathless air to the hills and valleys and woods.†   (source)
  • Now that the last of the rice was gone it was in a sense a relief: no amount of scheming and paring would make it go any further: the last grain had been eaten.†   (source)
  • So I took the apple and pared it, and I got the peel off in one piece.†   (source)
  • "We should pare the charges down before we vote," Hemme said.†   (source)
  • The paring knife she uses is worn so thin its blade is barely more than a crescent moon sliver.†   (source)
  • "I couldn't find one earlier, so I think you'll have to use a paring knife.†   (source)
  • Increasingly I begin to eliminate whatever does not fit in with it, paring myself down.†   (source)
  • The knowledge was like a scalpel that pared off what thin scabs had formed over his pain.†   (source)
  • Di giorno e troppo caldo, e così pare che di notte si sta bene, e a letto si gela.†   (source)
  • On the chopping board in front of her she's cutting more, with a paring knife, her large hands deft, indifferent.†   (source)
  • In the tumult of the kitchen, she cannot find a can opener, but she does find a paring knife in Madame Manec's knife drawer and the large coarse brick Madame used to prop open the fireplace grate.†   (source)
  • Though the kitchen is outfitted with paring knives, boning knives, carving knives, and cleavers, Emile can complete any of the various tasks for which those knives were designed with his ten-inch chopper.†   (source)
  • He replaces his lost aspirin and candles, and throws in six small boxes of matches and a paring knife, and his authentic-replica Red Sox baseball cap.†   (source)
  • His only instrument From the age of three it has been planed and polished, pared down, harnessed wholly to the task of storytelling.†   (source)
  • It was not the first time; she'd come before, but never to say anything; she would be hanging up the wash and laughing, or paring an apple, or hiding behind a sheet on the line up in the attic, which were all things she used to do before her trouble came; and when I dreamt about her in that way I would wake up comforted, as if she was still alive and happy.†   (source)
  • But while he was liberating a wedge of the plum from its pit with his paring knife, the Count happened to note a silvery shadow, as seemingly insubstantial as a puff of smoke, slipping behind his trunk.†   (source)
  • They simply stopped singing and Reba went on paring her toenails, Hagar threaded and unthreaded her hair, and Pilate swayed like a willow over her stirring.†   (source)
  • When the girls were three feet in front of the boys, Sula reached into her coat pocket and pulled out Eva's paring knife.†   (source)
  • It was Lorenz's job to pare it down to one page for the file and to this effect he would at times bark angrily, "That's inconsequential, just the facts."†   (source)
  • And if I take a nail file or even Eva's old paring knife—that will do—and scrape away at the gold, it will fall away and there will be alabaster.†   (source)
  • She refrained from fighting, but on the way to the privy room, she pretended to stumble and fall, hoping to get near enough to the platter that she might steal the small paring knife the man usedto cut the food.†   (source)
  • The other is of Mrs. Smeath by herself, with a sickle-moon paring knife and a skinless potato, unclad from the waist up and the thighs down.†   (source)
  • She stands in front of her sink, her wicked paring knife in one hand, a half-peeled potato in the other.†   (source)
  • Cordelia remembers all kinds of things: the graying underwear dripping on the clothesline in the cellar, the kitchen paring knife that was worn right down to a sliver, the winter coats from the Eaton's Catalogue.†   (source)
  • The hideous orc-head that was set upon the carven figure was cast down and broken in pieces, and the old king's head was raised and set in its place once more, still crowned with white and golden flowers: and men laboured to wash and pare away all the foul scrawls that orcs had put upon the stone.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Wainwright took a paring knife from her apron pocket and slipped it under the mattress.†   (source)
  • She was seated before the table paring beets.†   (source)
  • He stood in front of the fire, paring meditatively at his blunt nails with a dull knife.†   (source)
  • She reappeared, in her extended hand a pared.†   (source)
  • Webb faces up, pares potatoes) I can't look at everything hard enough.†   (source)
  • Inter pares.†   (source)
  • Or a lock of his hair or a paring from his finger nail and I would know them because I believe now that I have known what his hair and his finger nails would look like all my life, could choose that lock and that paring out of a thousand.†   (source)
  • The soldier sat in his pants with the gun between his knees paring his nails and biting off the loose skin.†   (source)
  • Outside the window the thin: moon stood upright in a deep sky, like the paring of a finger nail for magic, and against the sky the weather vane of the carrion crow with arrow in mouth pointed its arrow to the south.†   (source)
  • It was his familiar gesture when in company: no one, he felt, could see what you thought about anything, if you pared your nails.†   (source)
  • I took out my knife, opened it, wiped off the blade and pared off the dirty outside surface of the cheese.†   (source)
  • He began by felling a young ash, cut out six feet of unbranched stem, stripped off the bark and, paring by paring, shaved away the white wood, as old Mitsima had taught him, until he had a stave of his own height, stiff at the thickened centre, lively and quick at the slender tips.†   (source)
  • When the lark peels high his ring of sound and it falls through the air like an apple paring, I stoop; I feed my baby.†   (source)
  • Afternoons, when I had to take him out, I could leave him there playing with the little chicks they raised, or tried to raise, in the dark, clay areaway between buildings, and Mrs. Klein could keep an eye on him from the cellar kitchen, where she sat at the table, handy to the range, paring, peeling, slicing, cutting meat for stew, and molding meatballs.†   (source)
  • His mother lifted a bunch of carrots from a bag, dropped them into a dishpan and while she pared them, eyed David, fondly.†   (source)
  • The room was heavy with the rich odor of mellowing pears; an unaccustomed fire of pine sticks burned in the grate: he took up his place before it, and began to pare his nails.†   (source)
  • Bacchus looked up benevolently from a whittled stick, and Will, glancing up from his stubby nails which he was paring as usual, greeted the visitor with a birdlike nod and wink.†   (source)
  • Where the crust on the bread his mother bought was stiff and thick as card-board, this had a pliant yielding skin, thin as the thriftiest potato paring or the strip one unwound from a paper lead-pencil.†   (source)
  • And as they peeled, or pared, or whittled, their talk slid from its rude jocularity to death and burial: they drawled monotonously, with evil hunger, their gossip of destiny, and of men but newly lain in the earth.†   (source)
  • Will Pentland talked with the men about politics, the war, and trade conditions, paring his nails thoughtfully, pursing his lips and nodding in his curiously reflective way, and occasionally punning with a birdy wink.†   (source)
  • So she persuaded Gant to go into partnership with Will Pentland: at the end of a year, however, his patience broke, his tortured egotism leaped from its restraint, he howled that Will, whose business hours were spent chiefly in figuring upon a dirty envelope with a stub of a pencil, paring reflectively his stubby nails, or punning endlessly with a birdlike wink and nod, would ruin them all.†   (source)
  • …orchard-apple smells, of pressed-cider pulp; of pears ripening on a sunny shelf, and of ripe cherries stewing with sugar on hot stoves before preserving; the smell of whittled wood, of all young lumber, of sawdust and shavings; of peaches stuck with cloves and pickled in brandy; of pine-sap, and green pine-needles; of a horse's pared hoof; of chestnuts roasting, of bowls of nuts and raisins; of hot cracklin, and of young roast pork; of butter and cinnamon melting on hot candied yams.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he pared them too like Lady Boyle.†   (source)
  • And he actually pared his nails with his pocket-knife.†   (source)
  • She was paring potatoes and looked at him curiously.†   (source)
  • His next move was to pare and slice potatoes, placing these aside in a pan.†   (source)
  • Its population was not so much thriving upon pared prepared for the arrival of others.†   (source)
  • Bringing him some apples she insisted upon paring one for him.†   (source)
  • He'll undertake to torture any number of cats, if their teeth be drawn and their claws pared.†   (source)
  • It was barred off, beginning with the Rue du Pare-Royal.†   (source)
  • Then she set him and the little girls to paring some winter apples; but he was so awkward at this service that she retired him from it and gave him a butcher knife to grind.†   (source)
  • With interminable indignation she narrated her retorts to "that fresh head-barber" and the drastic things she would do to him if he persisted in saying that she was "better at gassing than at hoof-paring."†   (source)
  • I was so unpre pared.'†   (source)
  • The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.†   (source)
  • Once, long ago, she had caught salmon freely: now, quick to minister to the craving which lit her husband's eye so oilily for dominion, for power, she cramped, squeezed, pared, pruned, drew back, peeped through; so that without knowing precisely what made the evening disagreeable, and caused this pressure on the top of the head (which might well be imputed to the professional conversation, or the fatigue of a great doctor whose life, Lady Bradshaw said, "is not his own but his…†   (source)
  • It made no difference at this hour of the night to Mrs. Walker among the plates, saucepans, cullenders, frying-pans, chicken in aspic, ice-cream freezers, pared crusts of bread, lemons, soup tureens, and pudding basins which, however hard they washed up in the scullery seemed to be all on top of her, on the kitchen table, on chairs, while the fire blared and roared, the electric lights glared, and still supper had to be laid.†   (source)
  • And one day Boyle had said that an elephant had two tuskers instead of two tusks and that was why he was called Tusker Boyle but some fellows called him Lady Boyle because he was always at his nails, paring them.†   (source)
  • More precisely speaking, you have been within half an inch of being pared alive two hundred and ninety-five times.†   (source)
  • And the little one, with small eyes framed in red eyelids, pared down and slashed up like a thistle head?†   (source)
  • Neither Ambrose Pare, applying for the first time since Celsus, after an interval of fifteen centuries, a ligature to an artery, nor Dupuytren, about to open an abscess in the brain, nor Gensoul when he first took away the superior maxilla, had hearts that trembled, hands that shook, minds so strained as Monsieur Bovary when he approached Hippolyte, his tenotome between his fingers.†   (source)
  • He cut his trees level and close to the ground, that the sprouts which came up afterward might be more vigorous and a sled might slide over the stumps; and instead of leaving a whole tree to support his corded wood, he would pare it away to a slender stake or splinter which you could break off with your hand at last.†   (source)
  • "In point of fact," resumed Sir James, not choosing to dwell on "fits," "Brooke doesn't mean badly by his tenants or any one else, but he has got that way of paring and clipping at expenses."†   (source)
  • Indeed, both the farmers and laborers in the parishes of Freshitt and Tipton would have felt a sad lack of conversation but for the stories about what Mrs. Cadwallader said and did: a lady of immeasurably high birth, descended, as it were, from unknown earls, dim as the crowd of heroic shades—who pleaded poverty, pared down prices, and cut jokes in the most companionable manner, though with a turn of tongue that let you know who she was.†   (source)
  • Some were beginning to consider Oak a "near" man, for though his condition had thus far improved, he lived in no better style than before, occupying the same cottage, paring his own potatoes, mending his stockings, and sometimes even making his bed with his own hands.†   (source)
  • A table with a board at the end to keep the glasses from falling off is required, then a special stove is needed, a pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of the paste, according as it is to be used for wood, paper, or stuff, a paring-knife to cut the cardboard, a mould to adjust it, a hammer to nail the steels, pincers, how the devil do I know what all?†   (source)
  • I am just looking at them: well pared.†   (source)
  • She had cut it that very morning on account of the new moon and it nestled about her pretty head in a profusion of luxuriant clusters and pared her nails too, Thursday for wealth.†   (source)
  • …trying to imagine he was dying on account of her to never see thy face again though he looked more like a man with his beard a bit grown in the bed father was the same besides I hate bandaging and dosing when he cut his toe with the razor paring his corns afraid hed get bloodpoisoning but if it was a thing I was sick then wed see what attention only of course the woman hides it not to give all the trouble they do yes he came somewhere Im sure by his appetite anyway love its not or…†   (source)
  • Does he not wear a great round beard, like a glover's paring-knife?†   (source)
  • In any case, let Thisby have clean linen; and let not him that plays the lion pare his nails, for they shall hang out for the lion's claws.†   (source)
  • There is a great number of noblemen among you that are themselves as idle as drones, that subsist on other men's labour, on the labour of their tenants, whom, to raise their revenues, they pare to the quick.†   (source)
  • Some devils ask but the paring of one's nail, A rush, a hair, a drop of blood, a pin, A nut, a cherry-stone; but she, more covetous, Would have a chain.†   (source)
  • I had rather be any kind o' thing than a fool: and yet I would not be thee, nuncle: thou hast pared thy wit o' both sides, and left nothing i' the middle:—here comes one o' the parings.†   (source)
  • There was the comb I had contrived out of the stumps of the king's beard, and another of the same materials, but fixed into a paring of her majesty's thumb-nail, which served for the back.†   (source)
  • Virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese; consumes itself to the very paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach.†   (source)
  • ] 'I am gone, sir, And anon, sir, I'll be with you again, In a trice, Like to the old vice, Your need to sustain; Who with dagger of lath, In his rage and his wrath, Cries ah, ha! to the devil: Like a mad lad, Pare thy nails, dad.†   (source)
  • 'tis too late to pare her nails now.†   (source)
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