Whistling tunelessly, Wiz strolled over to the wall and picked up the pruning hook.

"Whhhoooooo," Wiz breathed and collapsed against the wall, using the pruning hook for a cane.

I had grown a beard, and my toenails looked like pruning hooks.

So I laid down my pruning hook and shears and struck out across the fields.

They might live in the country, but these were no primitive farmers armed with pitchforks and pruning hooks.

It lopped off her opponent's right hand like a pruning hook removing a branch.

But for the first time, plowshares and pruning hooks can be mentioned without seeming fatuous.

When was the last time you heard of someone who made a fortune selling ploughshares and pruning hooks?

Here and there among the olive trees he spotted an overturned wheelbarrow or an abandoned pruning hook, but the workers had vanished long since.

"Your plowshares and pruning hooks, then," said Miles tolerantly.