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shears

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Third person singular of shear

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An annual trim with shears and feeding with lime will keep it compact.

Through the dissolution of a suburban marriage - by way of boredom, lovelessness and the fact that, when the wife's pruning shears match her gardening gloves, it is no accident - the film suggests there is beauty next to you, that you can reach out and touch it, that people are not what they seem and that everyone's life is infinitely more interesting than they think it is.

See the way the handle on those pruning shears matches her gardening clogs?

My first time at a restaurant brought a bowl of cold elastic noodles and a pair of garden shears.

"Abhorred shears" Milton wrote in Lycidas.

THE image is as striking as it is unexpected: Henri Matisse aged 80, sitting in a cane wheelchair, slicing giant shears through a sheet of colour held in his left hand.

Carolyn spends her spare time pruning her roses (the American beauties of the title), her gardening clogs colour co-ordinated with the handles of her pruning shears; Lester helps keep the house neat and tidy.

Millions of gallons of water and chemicals are injected into mostly vertical wells at relatively high pressure, and the combination of cold-meets-hot, pressure and chemistry shears the deep, hot rock.

After surveying residents in La Quiebra, a village in the northwestern province of Antioquia, its team of 11 goes over a suspected minefield metre by metre, clearing the brush with garden shears and sweeping the ground with metal detectors.

In the Alto Solimões region of the Brazilian Amazon, they are sometimes expected to wield bigger shears.

ATROPOS is the Fate who cuts the lifeline once your time is up; she would seem to have her shears out for the study of classical (Ancient) Greek.

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