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Meanings of hot tongs in English

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Usage of hot tongs in English
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Sometimes he opened the door, hot tongs in hand, and smiled grimly.
Sons of the Oak
2
It was mere accident, but for doing it they burned me with red hot tongs.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal / An Authentic Narrative of...
3
She took him then, and a few days under the hot tongs loosened his tongue.
Sons of the Oak
4
Edwards would allegedly burn Smith's neck with hot tongs in order to make him work faster.
Ebony
5
An old man scarred by hot tongs.
Sons of the Oak
6
I promised her this morning I wouldn't let it be dragged out of me with red hot tongs.
A Fool and His Money
7
As the men's private parts were torn off with white- hot tongs, the little girl opened her legs and urinated.
House of Bathory
8
Nonetheless, the man cried out as if K. had grasped him not with two fingers but with red hot tongs.
The Trial
9
Men were tortured, beheaded, roasted before slow fires, pinched to death with hot tongs, broken on the wheel, flayed alive.
Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom
10
On this account her master and mistress would pinch her ears with hot tongs, and throw hot embers on her legs.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
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Meg wanted a few curls about her face, and Jo undertook to pinch the papered locks with a pair of hot tongs.
Little Women
12
There's one man lying down and they are pinching him with hot tongs, and another being stoned, and another being boiled in oil.
Pixie O'Shaughnessy
13
His thick black moustaches, curled every morning with hot tongs by the barber at the corner of the quay, seemed to hide a perpetual smile.
The Mirror of the Sea
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