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secateurs
noun
Small, handheld pruning shears.
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With feelings running high, the sight of a Network Rail hi-vis jacket beside a level crossing attracts the attention of a man who comes striding across a Suffolk beet field, brandishing an alarmingly large pair of secateurs.
She had no garden, and therefore wasn't to be found pruning the roses or manuring the asparagus; instead she nurtured journalists, and many famous names were first commissioned and edited by her with a biro snippy as secateurs.
It involves pruning back two choking analyses of modern Indian literature: the post-colonial and post-modern.On the first task, Mr Chaudhuri makes skilful use of his secateurs.
"You're not seeing with your eyes," he recently teased a fellow curator.In this section I do, I can, I will God is a Nigerian For whom the bell tolled Looking at absolutes Counter-culture Cloak and secateurs Reprints Related topics North America United Mexican States Art history History Cultural historyNot that Mr Golding has an innocent eye.
Pshaw! White plague, more like it.In this section I do, I can, I will God is a Nigerian For whom the bell tolled Looking at absolutes Counter-culture Cloak and secateurs Reprints Related topics Africa Kenya Nairobi John le CarreSandy Woodrow is head of chancery at the British High Commission in Nairobi.
If Nigeria blows, it won't be pretty.In this section I do, I can, I will God is a Nigerian For whom the bell tolled Looking at absolutes Counter-culture Cloak and secateurs Reprints Related topics Africa West Africa NigeriaMr Maier, a former contributor to The Economist, describes Nigeria as "the largest failed state in the Third World".
New guidelines were published last November.The approach has worked for Fiskars, an American company: its "soft touch" scissors, which operate like secateurs and are therefore easier to use, but are also modern-looking, have been a hit with people of all ages in America.
Pass the secateurs.
The parrot's beak is created, in a flash, by the addition of secateurs.
The morning of the abduction, Mrs. Allsop — dishevelled in a limp linen shirtdress — was wielding her secateurs up a ladder, pruning the climbing roses.
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Cinderella headlines a pretty cluttered week for marshmallowy comfort viewing, though Alan Rickman's swoons-and-secateurs costume drama A Little Chaos (Lionsgate, 12) is perhaps easier to watch than it is worthwhile.
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