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KERGUELEN, MARK BOAT reports last call from Cymena freighter(Gayer Tong Huk & Co.) taking water and sinking in snow-storm South McDonald Islands.

She would frown, and carrying it downstairs, as if she had it in the tongs, replace it on its bookshelf.

You couldn't get her to take a-holt of one of them with the tongs. And if she turned over and found one in bed she would scramble out and lift a howl that you would think the house was afire.

What he preferred above all other things was the tongs. This was because his "father" had forbidden him to have them lest he break windows and furniture with them.

I was so ragged and dirty, that you wouldn't have touched me with a pair of tongs.'

Every one knows what a multitude of things --beds, sauce-pans, knives and forks, shovels and tongs, napkins, nut-crackers, and what not, are indispensable to the business of housekeeping.

He put the ham in the middle of the floor, and hit it with the tongs and with the shovel--bang, bang, smash, smash!

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.

Meg wanted a few curls about her face, and Jo undertook to pinch the papered locks with a pair of hot tongs.

In half a minute I was as naked as a pair of tongs! And dear, dear, to think of it: I was the only embarrassed person there.

correspondence, which they took with tongs, dipped it in sea water,

In charge of it was the lean, grizzled, leatherskinned Sir Jules de Vac, and it was he whom Henry commanded to face him in mimic combat with the foils, for the King wished to go with hammer and tongs at someone to vent his suppressed rage.