The others had the same idea, and soon there was a new pile: a pencil-case, a battered watch, sheets and towels, two old-fashioned silver teaspoons, a pair of sugar-tongs, a few boots --- even a blanket. ❋ Jesse Kornbluth (2010)
Two forks, two teaspoons, two knives, and a pair of sugar-tongs, and a butter-knife all marked G. 11, 12, 13. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Sheets and towels, a little wearing apparel, two old-fashioned silver teaspoons, a pair of sugar-tongs, and a few boots. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The sugar-tongs were too wide for one of her hands, and she had to use both in wielding them; the weight of the silver cream-ewer, the bread-and-butter plates, the very cup and saucer, tasked her insufficient strength and dexterity; but she would lift this, hand that, and luckily contrived through it all to break nothing. ❋ Unknown (2003)
They all laughed; and Mother covered her old confusion by picking up the sugar-tongs and dropping an extra lump into ❋ Unknown (2003)
Louis, glancing, tripping with the high step of a disdainful crane, picks up words as if in sugar-tongs. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Later it was his duty to bring the tea, lump sugar and the sugar-tongs out. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)
Bormenthal swooped like a vulture, began dabbing Sharik's wound with swabs of gauze, then gripped its edges with a row of little clamps like sugar-tongs, and the bleeding stopped. ❋ Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1891-1940 (1968)
Ever since reading in the Thirties a delicately printed poem which mentioned that whales in their gigantic bliss lie trembling two by two, I have had some affection for Prokosch's writing, in which the juicily sensual and scatological are dispensed with literary sugar-tongs; and I found The Missolonghi Manuscript enjoyable in somewhat the same way as Danny Kaye's Hans Andersen. ❋ Matthews, G.M. (1968)
Mr. Dombey's elbow, produced a silver watch, ready money to the amount of thirteen pounds and half a crown, two teaspoons and a pair of battered sugar-tongs, and piling them up into a heap, that they might look as precious as possible, said: ❋ Kate Dickinson Sweetser (N/A)
To use one's own knife, spoon or fingers, instead of the butterknife, sugar-tongs or salt-spoons, is to persuade the company that you have never seen the latter articles before, and are unacquainted with their use. ❋ Sarah Annie Frost (N/A)
Use the salt-spoon, butter-knife, and sugar-tongs even when you are alone. ❋ Sarah Annie Frost (N/A)
Yet, on the other hand, a gentleman would lose his reputation, if he were to take up a piece of sugar with his fingers and not with the sugar-tongs. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Sara paused with the sugar-tongs poised above the Queen Anne bowl. ❋ Margaret Pedler (N/A)
The first glass, meantime, rendered once more ductile by heat, was passed to another man upon another bench, who, keeping up all the while the rotatory motion necessary to preserve the form of the softened material, smoothed it with the battledoor, gauged it with the compasses, coaxed it with the sugar-tongs, and finally trimmed it around the top with his scissors as easily as if it had been of paper. ❋ Various (N/A)
There, negroes and negresses break it up with long poles armed with hard-wood head, trampling it under their delicate pettitoes to such an extent as to give rise to the question whether sugar-tongs are not a useless invention. ❋ Henry A. Murray (N/A)
"No sugar," said Cynthia, watching him, as he picked up the sugar-tongs. ❋ Agatha Christie (1933)
