pruning-shears

Under his feet lay a pair of pruning-shears he had borrowed from Sam with the intention of doing something about the jungle which surrounded Pirate's Haven on three sides.

Ralestone Luck Andre Norton 1958

"But I was going to --" He made a feeble beginning toward stooping for the pruning-shears.

Ralestone Luck Andre Norton 1958

The sharp knife and the pruning-shears have other uses in the June orchard.

The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

The side pockets of my jacket are usually weighted down with pruning-shears, a sharp knife, and a handled copper wire, -- always, indeed, in June, when I walk in my orchard.

The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

The people were gathering at the sunny side of the house; the auctioneer, at the window, was selling pots and candles and pruning-shears and kitchen chairs.

The Happy Venture Edith Ballinger Price 1947

In the shrubbery, Hans, the stableman, worked with a pair of pruning-shears.

The Rabbit-pen 1914

I both found five-tined forks and went into the rose garden and began turning over the rich soil, while Mrs. Vedder, with pruning-shears, kept near us, cutting out the dead wood.

The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment David Grayson 1908

There is a tradition that Miss Lois May once went to the length of trimming her grass about the doorstone and clothes-pole with embroidery scissors; but that was a too-hasty encomium bestowed by a widower whom she rejected next week, and who qualified his statement by saying they were pruning-shears.

Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

Ellison among the rosebushes, pruning-shears in hand, with which he had been cutting out dead blossoms, gazing at her with that hungry, admiring, speculative look with which he had regarded the young women upon the beach.

Children of the Whirlwind Leroy Scott 1902

There is a tradition that Miss Lois May once went to the length of trimming her grass about the doorstone and clothes-pole with embroidery scissors; but that was a too-hasty encomium bestowed by a widower whom she rejected next week, and who qualified his statement by saying they were pruning-shears.

Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902