pruning hook

Pruning hook in hand, he was removing the tree's dead branches.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wiz laid the pruning hook aside and gestured magnanimously.

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

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

And their spears into pruning hooks.

Send our people plowshares instead of swords, pruning hooks instead of spears.

Wiz roared, reaching for the pruning hook.

They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.

A pruning hook.

It was a pruning hook, its two-foot curved blade wickedly sharp along its inner edge.

"Sharpening their scythes, their pruning hooks and pitchforks, most likely," Doheny said.

Unarc held a knife the length of his forearm; its heavy blade curved inward like that of a pruning hook.

She lowered her voice to a bare whisper to say, in terror, "The pruning hook and the scythes are in the barn lean-to."

Reviews of strategy turned into financially-driven Defence reviews, in which pruning hooks were more prominent than spades to plant new strategic ideas for the future.

Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong. '" "

Among them are domestic objects such as colanders, pruning hooks, needles, dice, and bowls still containing olives, barley and figs.

"My dear boy, this is a bit of metal hammered into a rather unattractive shape; it could better have been a pruning hook or a plow iron.