He bore, like his companion, a scrip, attached to his belt, but had neither horn nor knife, being probably considered as belonging to a class whom it is esteemed dangerous to intrust with edge-tools. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The chief articles are sharp instruments, as knives, scissors, razors, saws, and edge-tools of various kinds, and to these may be added, files and plated goods to a great extent, besides stove-grates and fenders of exquisite beauty. ❋ Various (N/A)
The excellence of edge-tools depends upon their temper. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
He is very clever with the edge-tools in his surgeon's-case; he whips you out an excrescence before you are quite aware that he meditated an operation, and you find that he had chloroformed you with a shrewd writer's best anaesthetic, a humorous and genial temper. ❋ Various (N/A)
As for our steel, it is not so good for edge-tools as that of Cologne, and yet the one is often sold for the other, and like talc used in both, that is to say, thirty gads to the sheaf, and twelve sheaves to the burden. ❋ Thomas Malory Jean Froissart (N/A)
There are inalienable rights, we admit, but then such abstractions are the edge-tools of political science, with which it is dangerous for either men or children to play. ❋ E. N. [Editor] Elliott (N/A)
As for our stoel, it is not so good for edge-tools as that of Cologne, and yet the one is often sold for the other, and like tale used in both, that is to say, thirty gads to the sheaf, and twelve sheaves to the burden. ❋ Unknown (1909)
In former days their only edge-tools were made of stone, and they felled trees by a slow fire smouldering close to the ground. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)
His four front teeth are excellent edge-tools for his logging and woodwork; his webbed feet are most useful in his deep-waterway transportation, and his hands in house-building and especially in dam-building. ❋ Enos Abijah Mills (1896)
Traces have been discovered of the importation of edge-tools from four directions -- from the mouth of the ❋ Hudson Stuck (1891)
Prince four trade dollars in change for a ten-dollar bill, and the two men went out, leaving Mr. Isaacs free to attend to a timid woman in black who had just come in to raise fifty cents upon a ring, while Mr.. Isaacs looked after a carpenter who proposed to pawn his edge-tools for rent-money. ❋ Heman White Chaplin (1885)
If Sophia had really any such purpose in view, she was playing with edge-tools. ❋ Charles Morris (1877)
It is like cautioning a manufacturer of dynamite against the danger of meddling with mere edge-tools. ❋ Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1867)
It is said that an alloy of tin and copper was used for their edge-tools; and with the aid of a silicious sand or dust, they were enabled to cut and polish amethysts, emeralds, porphyry, and other hard substances. ❋ Unknown (1865)
Halicarnassus fumbles in his pockets for edge-tools, as if Queen Victoria, who rules the waves, on whose dominions the sun never sets, whose morning drum-beat encircles the world, would leave the main gate of her main fort on one of the frontiers of her empire so insecurely defended that ❋ Gail Hamilton (1864)
I READ in a learned physician how our provident mother, Nature, foreseeing men (her wanton children) would be tampering with the edge-tools of minerals, hid them far from them, in the bowels of the earth; whereas she exposed plants and herbs more obvious to their eye, as fitter for their use. ❋ 1608-1661 (1863)
But they go down to the Romish Philistines, and from them they whet all the edge-tools of their arguments: a formal syllogism in the mouth of an ❋ 1608-1661 (1863)
At first the trade was in axes, knives, and other edge-tools, beads, and ornaments, but in 1832 the Maoris would scarcely take anything but arms and ammunition, red woollen shirts, and tobacco. ❋ George Dunderdale (1862)
