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An ecosystem, an economy and a way of life for much of the nation's coastal southeast remained in the pincered grip of a quartet of robots on Friday, as their human handlers in Houston finally set a giant box on top of an oil leak that has spewed at least 75,000 barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico.

Officials enlist robots to help contain oil gushing in Gulf of Mexico 2010

It feels like being scalded and stabbed, as if your skin is being pincered from your body.

Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009

It feels like being scalded and stabbed, as if your skin is being pincered from your body.

Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009

It feels like being scalded and stabbed, as if your skin is being pincered from your body.

Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009

Hellgrammites, the pincered larvae of the dobsonfly, grow more than 3 inches long and are a favorite food of bass and big trout.

More Fishing Tips 2003

Hellgrammites, the pincered larvae of the dobsonfly, grow more than 3 inches long and are a favorite food of bass and big trout.

More Fishing Tips 2003

He put his ruined hand in his pocket and came out with a small revolver, his thumb and the stump of his index finger pincered through the trigger guard.

One Shot Child, Lee 2005

But then the girl twisted and squealed out like a rabbit at the end of an owl's stoop, and Inman could see Junior's pincered fingers retreating from the vicinity of her bosom.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

The British and Portuguese, turning to meet that threat, would be hammered by the second attack at the ridge's northern end and, thus pincered, Wellington's troops would collapse between the two French forces.

Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

Do you drink juice? he said, still shaking the damn thing, two fingers pincered at the spout.

THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001