It was fitted with back-seat television, plush carpets, radio telephone, fur rugs, air conditioning, and a built-in drinks cabinet holding in racks six bottles, twelve glasses, and a glittering array of chromiumed cork-screws, ice-picks, and miscellaneous objects like swizzle sticks. ❋ Francis, Dick, 1920- (1965)
All I could see was the drinks compartment in Humber's monster car, with the rack of ice-picks, tongs, and little miscellaneous chromium-plated objects. ❋ Francis, Dick, 1920- (1965)
Oh, 'twas a grand shindig -- tin millions iv men, women, an 'childher rowlin' on th 'flure, hands an' feet goin ', ice-picks an' hurlin 'sticks, clubs, brickbats, an' beer kags flyin 'in th' air! ❋ Finley Peter Dunne (1901)
They held on by jabbing their knives into the hide as glacier-climbers do their ice-picks. ❋ Frank Norris (1886)
A kind of basket was secured firmly on the mule's back, and old Andregg, under Melchior's directions, produced a couple of worn ice-picks or axes, blankets, bottles, a kettle for coffee, and a little ready-chopped wood to supply the first start to the twigs and branches they would collect before leaving the forest. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
The last two words were roared out; and chip, chip, there came close upon one another the sound of two ice-picks being driven into the snow, the guide's like an echo of Dale's, for his axe was raised to cut a fresh step, but he changed the direction like lightning, drove it in high up the slope, and held on forward, Dale backward. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
Finally, with the point of their ice-picks they showed him the enormous accumulation of ice, of _névé_ not yet transformed into glacier rising before them to the zenith in blinding repetition. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
Tourists were defiling in caravans, with horses, guides, mules, veils green and blue, and a tintinnabulation of canteens as the animals ambled, the ice-picks marking each step on the cobble-stones. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
With people becoming more desperate by the day, looters swarmed smashed shops in downtown Port-au-Prince, fighting each other with knives, hammers, ice-picks and rocks while police tried to disperse them with gunfire. ❋ Unknown (2010)
With people turning more desperate by the day, looters have swarmed smashed shops in downtown Port-au-Prince, fighting each other with knives, hammers, ice-picks and rocks while police tried to disperse them with gunfire. ❋ Unknown (2010)
They carried stones, knives, ice-picks and hammers, as much to defend themselves as to break into wrecked premises and slash open boxes to grab T-shirts, bags, toys and other items. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Fighting broke out between groups of looters carrying knives, ice-picks, hammers and rocks. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Fighting broke out between groups carrying knives, ice-picks, hammers and rocks. ❋ Unknown (2010)
