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A long session, first with a psychoanalyst, followed by a nut-cracker with an FRCPsych degree (Fellow of the Royal College) will do him a world of good pam Eugene OR

South Carolina governor goes missing 2009

An eminently multi-purpose kitchen tool if there ever was one - especially when used in conjunction with a sharply wielded nut-cracker.

Return to the Mysterious Greatwood fjm 2005

He had a nut-cracker face — chin and nose trying to come together over a sunken mouth — and it was framed in iron-gray fluffy hair, that looked like a chin strap of cotton-wool sprinkled with coal-dust.

Youth, by Joseph Conrad 2004

Unless this country is resigned to the role of Belgium in World War Three, as the "innocent bystander" caught "in the middle" between the jaws of an all-crushing nut-cracker, it must devote itself to the urgent role of "middle-man" for peace.

America, Britain and Canada—The "A B C" of Destiny 1953

Rousselet straightened himself up to his full height, and, giving to his nut-cracker face the most dignified look possible, he said in a solemn tone:

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

The common nut-cracker makes a splendid little household wrench for cans and bottles with screw tops.

Food and Health Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company

About 340 species of birds are known to occur in the province, among which, as of special interest, may be mentioned the burrowing owl of the dry, interior region, the American magpie, Steller's jay and a true nut-cracker, Clark's crow (_Picicorvus columbianus_).

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

As if I had forgotten that she lies where even the innkeeper's boots no longer has to open his nut-cracker mouth with a

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig Various

The bridegroom puts on women's ornaments and carries with him an iron nut-cracker or dagger to keep off evil spirits.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

Sometimes it worked like a nut-cracker, sometimes like a pair of forceps, and sometimes -- oh, you can think of a dozen tools that beak of Corbie's was like.

Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim