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Meanings of hot tongs in inglés

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Usage of hot tongs in inglés
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Sometimes he opened the door, hot tongs in hand, and smiled grimly.
Sons of the Oak
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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
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An old man scarred by hot tongs.
Sons of the Oak
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I promised her this morning I wouldn't let it be dragged out of me with red hot tongs.
A Fool and His Money
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As the men's private parts were torn off with white- hot tongs, the little girl opened her legs and urinated.
House of Bathory
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Nonetheless, the man cried out as if K. had grasped him not with two fingers but with red hot tongs.
The Trial
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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
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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
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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
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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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