pruning-hook

Charles never left the paltry banks of the Saale, he had not now been much better known than any vine-dresser who wielded his pruning-hook in the same territories.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

And yet not so well as with a pruning-hook made for the purpose?

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

May we not say that this is the end of a pruning-hook?

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

And when you want to keep a pruning-hook safe, then justice is useful to the individual and to the State; but when you want to use it, then the art of the vine-dresser?

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

But fair and softly, gentle reader, male or female, do not alarm thyself, for though I have compared the character of a modern soldier with that of a civilized woman, I am not going to advise them to turn their distaff into a musket, though I sincerely wish to see the bayonet converted into a pruning-hook.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 2002

With his snow-white new ivory leg braced against the screwed leg of his table, and with a long pruning-hook of a jack-knife in his hand, the wondrous old man, with his back to the gangway door, was wrinkling his brow, and tracing his old courses again.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Lord, and in Him is that declaration borne out; since it is He Himself who has made the plough, and introduced the pruning-hook, that is, the first semination of man, which was the creation exhibited in Adam,

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

In the beginning, He figured forth the pruning-hook by means of Abel, pointing out that there should be a gathering in of a righteous race of men.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

And yet it is from the ranks of these sturdy sons of toil that I would gain my recruits for that peaceful army whose sword is the pruning-hook; it is from their honest, hard-working hands I expect the grandest results.

The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines George Husmann

Priāpus held a pruning-hook in his hands, when he had hands, for he was sometimes nothing more than a mere log of wood, as Martial somewhat humorously calls him.

Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway