"Pliers" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... slid a pair of pliers into his pocket and, wringing the board clear of its fastenings, lowered ...
— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates
... she insisted that that was all. The tramp stepped into the kitchen. A wood fire was burning in the stove. A pair of pliers lay upon the window sill. With these he lifted one of the hot stove-hole covers and returned to ...
— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... do something pretty soon they'll so fasten this crime on Jimmie Darcy that you'll never be able to get him out of the tangle," said Mr. Kettridge, as he poked a pair of pliers among the parts of the watch. "Carroll and Thong, now that they know about the electrical wires, think they have all the evidence they need, and the prosecutor ...
— The Diamond Cross Mystery - Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story • Chester K. Steele
... chisel, gimlet, stylet^, drill, wimble^, awl, bradawl, scoop, terrier, corkscrew, dibble, trocar [Med.], trepan, probe, bodkin, needle, stiletto, rimer, warder, lancet; punch, puncheon; spikebit^, gouge; spear &c (weapon) 727; puncher; punching machine, punching press; punch pliers. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... article as a pair of pliers, one of the most familiar of tools, had been proved to be capable of patented improvement. Formerly these were always made to open and close at an angle which precluded their holding any object grasped by them with the desirable rigidity. A clever workman invented a means of producing this effect ...
— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XIX, No. 470, Jan. 3, 1885 • Various
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