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    1. on the shear, and then a head falls,


    2. All the families that had planked in on that side of the garage shared what used to be the public facilities on that floor, and it was shear monstrosities of re-cycled plumbing that kept it going


    3. All attention is paid to dependence of strength on the external loading, they set reasons on which it is possible to judge about beginning of material destruction at the tense state, if the behavior at simple tension, compression or shear is known


    4. The main kind of strength concrete is compressive strength that correlates with tensile strength, shear strength, flexural strength and other kinds of strength


    5. stress the shear importance of this type of intercession


    6. 4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep


    7. 59 He has also an immense stock of flocks and herds, camels and asses, also silver and gold in abundance; and when he saw that his wealth increased, he left me while I went to shear my sheep, and he rose up and fled in secrecy


    8. 29 And at the revolution of the year, Aliyath the wife of Judah died; and Judah was comforted for his wife, and after the death of Aliyath, Judah went up with his friend Hirah to Timnah to shear their sheep


    9. 19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's


    10. 13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold your father in law goes up to Timnath to shear his sheep;

    11. 19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that


    12. It is also easier to shear one giant sheep than a flock of small sheep at tax time


    13. 59 He has also an immense stock of flocks and herds camels and asses also silver and gold in abundance; and when he saw that his wealth increased he left me while I went to shear my sheep and he rose up and fled in secrecy


    14. 29 And at the revolution of the year Aliyath the wife of Judah died; and Judah was comforted for his wife and after the death of Aliyath Judah went up with his friend Hirah to Timnah to shear their sheep


    15. “It sure was,” I smiled back not out of happiness, but out of shear love for my


    16. split second, out of shear anger with the situation, I reached out and grabbed the ticket


    17. The rich and educated Indians were afraid of losing their status or well paying job and did not want to make an effort out of shear self-interest, apathy, and fear to bring about any change in status quo


    18. Amazing how you can perform something like this—control of the heart—a reflex organ—by shear willpower, by the mastery over your thoughts


    19. Arayus was silent for a moment, drinking in the shear, crushing implications of the


    20. Conan lashed down with his great sword and felt the blade shear through something that might have been flesh and bone, and cut deep into the stair beneath

    21. "I give you death, wizard," snarled the king, and backed by iron muscles and ferocious hate the great sword swung in a stroke meant to shear Tsotha's lean torso in half


    22. These types of mowers actually shear grass instead of tearing them


    23. I still hadn't gotten use to the shear number of stores and occupations that were no longer in


    24. To Shear With Iron Scissors


    25. froze out of shear fear


    26. and motivation based on shear emotion and conclusive


    27. For his shear guts


    28. If necessary, they could shear the wheel nuts off


    29. so that the shear power


    30. By the shear force stored within his voice,

    31. The shear power locked within a single voice actually drove


    32. our faces covered with tears of shear joy as we stand and weep!


    33. If all goes to plan, the bulk of the overhang will shear off and drop down to provide the majority of the blockage


    34. It was his shear


    35. The shear power of the


    36. The shear ecstasy that


    37. God's hand to come and shear


    38. We caught a wind shear that blew us


    39. wanted to "shear the sheep" which is always the students fear whereas his whole life was devoted towards enlightenment for his


    40. He had just barely escaped a T-Rex earlier and only out of shear luck at that

    41. Heat is generated on both sides of the shear line, but the


    42. comply from shear pain caused by Garcia flexing the sword


    43. While he watched the landscape pass them by, Charlie could not decide whether he felt nervous butterflies or perhaps shear adrenalin flowing through his veins


    44. The diameter in this formula is expressed as a function of x (the distance between the loading force P and the shear location) because the aim is to have a minimum tennis racket weight


    45. They flung out and, by shear luck or fate, nailed the cougar in the eye, the only weak point Kevin could determine


    46. The survivors cling to the shear rock faces, ledges too far above them to reach, but still glad of solid land of any sort and too exhausted to swim any more


    47. himself learning how to shear


    48. The cryptography wasn"t the problem; it was the shear number of messages that his computer


    49. The shear size of Fox’s enterprise — the amount of trade he did with forest animals and humans to get this scale — struck Silas for the first time


    50. The children were lucky not to fall to their deaths for the end of the tunnel was a shear cliff at the edge of a huge cavern




















    1. carved and sheared of age, salt whipped,


    2. There was a huge boulder in the center and it appeared to have been sheared in half; it was used as a great table


    3. pinned the sash window permanently closed sheared and shattered


    4. Nerissa sheared the sheep, washed and carded the wool, then baled it


    5. Most of the teeth on the locking cog had sheared off, leaving the door free to slide in its track


    6. And then they were both struggling again but his feet were flailing in thin air for a foothold but there was no foothold and the realization of what was happening sheared across his mind


    7. Withdrew the padlock, glowing red and sheared by a third, from the engine's great heart


    8. He loved the way she wore her hair sheared until it was only


    9. Several of the solid oak trunks that made up the gate doors had been shattered, dislodged with their rivets sheared off, giving just enough space for some of the smaller creatures to swarm through and face the blades of the exhausted Tanarian garrison


    10. She only saw that he evaded that deadly grasp, and his sword, flashing like a jet of white lightning, sheared through one of those massive arms between shoulder and elbow

    11. With a furious oath Conan struck, and his sword sheared the horrid shape in half


    12. A tall corsair, bounding over the rail, was met in midair by the Cimmerian's great sword, which sheared him cleanly through the torso, so that his body fell one way and his legs another


    13. It dropped the girl, wheeling toward its attacker, and the maddened Cimmerian's saber, shrilling through the air, sheared clear through the black viscous bulk and rang on the stone floor, showering blue sparks


    14. His madly slashing saber sheared through it again and again, his ripping poniard tore and rent it; he was deluged with a slimy liquid that must have been its sluggish blood


    15. A whirl of steel sheared through the hideous trunks that waved toward him, and he smote the crystal sphere again and yet again


    16. That stroke would have sheared a human body asunder; but the bones of the servant of Bit-Yakin were like tempered steel


    17. Before Tsotha could toss the globe in his left hand, Conan's sword sheared through his lean neck


    18. The broad blade split that wedge-shaped head and sheared deep into the thick neck


    19. It was now just a dry tract of dirt with tracks of corn stalks sheared off, sticking up from the ground like stubby knives for as far as you could see, just rows and rows of dirty yellow stubs


    20. That afternoon the Army barber sheared off all his hair

    21. The switch had sheared off and the fragile plastic wheels were smashed by the force


    22. Two of the ornate handles had been sheared from their mounts


    23. at the barracouta, we found that the end had sheared off


    24. As the work progressed Remus shifted his hips and his shoulders, making multiple passes up and down the length of the trunk, and the harsh chattering gave way to a constant hum as all the bark was sheared away and the shape turned true


    25. Pain sheared through her at his words


    26. He snatched the kid by the wrist and sheared off the boy’s left index finger with one powerful snap of his undead jaws


    27. They had been sheared in two, as if a saw had cut them


    28. He explained about the stop sign and the sheared bolts


    29. He pointed over to the large hydraulic press with which he had sheared a train axle for Benjamin Butler


    30. If the boys sleep outside and near the fires on a fine night they should stay far enough away from the immense boulders so that a falling sheet of sheared rock does not crush them during their dreams

    31. In a number of instances sheets of rock some five feet wide and six or seven feet high had sheared off the boulders due to the relentless stresses induced by the constant flames


    32. "He said that in Salem, New Hampshire, a town not very far from here, there is an ancient and uninhabited place constructed entirely of sheared rock slabs and other pieces of sandstone


    33. Olin and Horan had done considerable commerce in the flat stones that had been sheared off the large boulders with fires and both had realized large profits as a result


    34. Even just a slightly more powerful blow would’ve sheared her arm clean off


    35. tree that had been sheared in half during a lightning storm years ago


    36. Shorn: Having the hair or wool cut off; sheared


    37. open and hit the man, a door sheared off a second later


    38. When the land was divided in the days of Peleg both Madagascar and the American continents sheared away at where the crust had been worn thin by the great rivers which once flowed


    39. “Bingo,” he said, “the way the studs have sheared off is exactly the same on both of them


    40. “They’ve been sheared off with what looks like pincers,” he said, “loosening the nuts wasn’t good enough, whoever did this wanted to make absolutely sure

    41. I saw Orhanin briefly raise his bloody bandaged hand in acknowledgment that he had heard me, as the patrol boat sheared off away from us diverting the attention from us


    42. An antiquated Soviet attack sub had run afoul of the same reef in the past and had one side of it completely sheared off


    43. It sheared off heads so many, that it, and the ground it most polluted, were a rotten red


    44. He was flattened by your weight, accidentally burned when placed too close to a curling iron, and sheared for reasons unknown by your baby sister


    45. The seventh Sunday after Easter, it fell in May or June, soon after most of England’s sheep had been sheared; and so it was always the first day of the Kingsbridge Fleece Fair


    46. When Werner stops coughing and pushes the debris off his chest, he finds Volkheimer staring up at a single sheared hole of purple light


    47. They are raised and sheared as sheep and form a significant part of the fine-textiles industry


    48. Heard the crack of a block of blue ice the size of a house as it sheared off from a glacial face as tall as a skyscraper, plunging into the freezing water below


    49. Having set down her stacks of LPs, she stood by the wall-mounted phone with her back turned, or at least those parts of it visible where the collar and hem of her tee-shirt had been sheared off with scissors


    50. And any investor who buys stock in such a company is a sheep begging to be sheared






    1. That was the last memory she had before the shadow of that Naud Cruiser blotted out the sky above them and they were snatched up like so many sheep for shearing


    2. Every owner of wool within ten miles of the sea coast must give an account in writing, three days after shearing, to the next officer of the customs, of the number of his fleeces, and of the places where they are lodged


    3. 32), is so very indulgent as to declare, that this shall not hinder any person from carrying his wool home from the place of shearing, though it be within five miles of the sea, provided that in ten days after shearing, and before he remove the wool, he do under his hand certify to the next officer of the customs the true number of fleeces, and where it is housed; and do not remove the same, without certifying to such officer, under his hand, his intention so to do, three days before


    4. Somewhere above the organ lone figures are shearing


    5. and a thousand goats, and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel


    6. 12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria; And as he was at the shearing house in the way,


    7. 14 And he said, Take them alive; and they took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men;


    8. They hewed at the legs of the hulking humanoids, shearing masses of rock from their bodies


    9. means of shearing one of al semblance of culture and refinement?


    10. In the Plain of Hazor, where they were shearing sheep for him

    11. The huge talons in that instant of contact had disemboweled and partially dismembered the man, and the giant fangs had torn away the whole top of his head, shearing through the skull as easily as through flesh


    12. She came to a ravine, a gash shearing the escarpment above and widening out into


    13. One of them exploded against his tail, shearing off most of his vertical rudder


    14. causes the tool to rub or burnish instead of shearing off a nice chip


    15. along the ground, shearing it apart


    16. ground and, as it approached the city, the outer walls began shearing apart; it was being ripped to pieces like sheets of paper


    17. ―Slew them at the pit (bohr) of the shearing house‖ 2 Kings 10:14


    18. The patrol boat plowed into the cruiser’s side shearing the armored skin with its momentum and possibly the force of will of the man behind its wheel


    19. “Slew them at the pit (bohr) of the shearing house” 2 Kings 10:14


    20. I don't know whether the shearing sobered our black sheep, but I do know that in all Washington I couldn't find anything beautiful enough to be bought with the five-and-twenty dollars my good girl sent me

    21. he must be worried stiff! Obviously the story must have spread by now, Shearing


    22. “A newer building would have base isolation bearings, or a quake-resistant sill-anchoring system that could buffer the shearing effect


    23. A massive boulder, the size of a small car, had crashed through a mobile home, shearing it in half and causing serious damage


    24. It makes no sense, he’s thinking, that someone should have opened a hydrant here in this forsaken part of town—and all at once he’s aware of a curtain of water shearing up over the windshield and of a sort of floaty feeling, a loud blam halting his progress while something else comes and whumps him on the back of the head


    25. Merry's sword had stabbed him from behind, shearing through the black mantle, and passing up beneath the hauberk had pierced the sinew behind his mighty knee


    26. A horn blared as an Audi wagon clipped the car, nearly shearing off the rear bumper


    27. But they would not have adopted his suggestion had it not been so exactly congenial to their own temper of arrogance and tyranny and contempt for the people who meekly, year after year, presented themselves for the shearing with fatuous bleats of enthusiasm


    1. She looked to be a pure blooded Troll; large, dark and wide with shears for teeth, nipples as big as Shinvei's and lazy brown curls down to her large navel


    2. "You could snap your fingers and have the shears do it for you, or perhaps make some tea and cakes whilst we cope with the trimming


    3. "Excellent idea my dear you know where the shears are kept, just call them, and you, Lemoss, you'll need the stepladder, which as you may see is stepping your way


    4. 'I need oiling as well' said the shears as Rosecare handed them to Lemoss


    5. pruning shears and cuts off some dead branches off of a


    6. Thinksandthings sets down his shears, picks up the


    7. topiary shears in their paws, carving cockerels


    8. them, thought Danny, he's got the topiary shears out and he's turned those wild thickets into


    9. Gentleman who was circumcised with a pair of pinking shears


    10. Our RSM, bless his soul, really enjoyed being a barber in his spare time, and fancied himself mightily with the barber shears

    11. nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plough shears, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up a


    12. shears, press breaks, plate rolls, and high


    13. and I"ll use the shears afterwards for the right


    14. While she did so, Talia stood between his spread knees on the seat of the chair and cut off his beard to within half a centimeter with shears, then worked a lotion into what was left


    15. While she did so, Talia stood between his spread knees on the seat of the chair and cut off his beard to within a quarter inch of his skin with shears, then worked a lotion into what was left


    16. He was led as a sheep unto the slaughter and like a lamb dumb before him that shears it


    17. He tosses the shears to the floor


    18. The old lady in the middle took out a huge pair of scissors-gold and silver, long-bladed, like shears


    19. Dodds, or the sound of that old fruit lady’s shears snipping the yarn


    20. shears in a backpack and left home

    21. Pulling a sharp pair of shears from her pocket, she cut the thing off and put it away where it was hidden


    22. swirling about in a gigantic whirlwind that little by little was being reduced to its epicenter as the edges were systematically being cut off all around like an onion being peeled by the insatiable and methodical shears of the machine guns


    23. broken-down doll that they carried back and forth from one corner to another wrapped in colored cloth and with her face painted with soot and annatto, and once they were on the point of plucking out her eyes with the pruning shears as they had done with the frogs


    24. Fernanda would waste time looking for the shears that she was sure she had put on the bed and after turning everything upside down she would find them on a shelf in the kitchen, where she thought she had not been for four days


    25. She tied the shears to the head of her bed with a long string


    26. The problems were not solved overnight, because a few hours after she had tied the string to the shears it was not long enough for her to cut with, as if the elves had shortened it


    27. Aware that when he arrived he had found the -door to the bedroom open, Aureliano went across the porch which was saturated with the morning sighs of oregano and looked into the dining room, where the remnants of the birth still lay: the large pot, the bloody sheets, the jars of ashes, and the twisted umbilical cord of the child on an opened diaper on the table next to the shears and the fishline


    28. As he unzips, a savage pain shears through the back of his neck


    29. I was careful to cut the pants leg off from my right side with a pair of shears, a maneuver I had seen on some hospital show on the tube years ago, then I rinsed out the wound in the shower so that I could see the metal clearly


    30. long pointy pair of shears

    31. snipped the shears a few times next to her ear just to tease


    32. was asked to cut his hair with shears


    33. Bridget squeezed the handle of the shears tightly in her hand


    34. At this time only lawn shears can be used


    35. the sword shears the grass


    36. large lawns is much faster than using a lawn shears


    37. Here was I, the most harmless of women, engaged in the most harmless of little expeditions, asking and wanting nothing but to be left alone; a person so obscure as to be, one would think, altogether out of the reach of the blind Fury with the accursèd shears; a person with a plan so mild and humble that I was ashamed of the childishness of the Fate that could waste its energies spoiling it


    38. When he came to, the trooper was sitting atop his chest, smoking a pipe and playing idly with a pair of shears


    39. He snipped the shears gleefully at Caesar's face, but a thought came over his countenance and he spun around


    40. His neighbour stood holding his pruning shears in the air with his mouth wide open

    41. Off the walls in sorts of animal suspicions, hang tameable tricks and tears, visors of haughty expressions, made happy with drinks and beers; and pairing with a pinking shears, the pieces off his customers, a butcher-barber-cut-off-ears, wets his comb and precedes yes, to style yet another outpatient from The Home


    42. She slid out of his reach, her heart pounding a lot faster than normal, as she found the kitchen shears and snipped at the stems, resettling them in fresh water


    43. Examples are Bonsai tools, pruners, extended reach tools, propagating pots, rakes, knives, hoses, shears and snips, power tools and other tools


    44. and glasses, the shears and flat-iron,


    45. Next, two men, one apparently a farm labourer, and the other a tailor, for he had a pair of shears in his hand, presented themselves before him, and the tailor said, "Senor governor, this labourer and I come before your worship by reason of this honest man coming to my shop yesterday (for saving everybody's presence I'm a passed tailor, God be thanked), and putting a piece of cloth into my hands and asking me, 'Senor, will there be enough in this cloth to make me a cap?' Measuring the cloth I said there would


    46. Then the shark's jaws opened astoundingly wide, like a pair of industrial shears, and that would have been the finish of Captain Nemo had not Ned Land, quick as thought, rushed forward with his harpoon and driven its dreadful point into the shark's underside


    47. Bent down double with his shears clipping


    48. Red Murray's long shears sliced out the advertisement from the newspaper in


    49. Red Murray touched Mr Bloom's arm with the shears and whispered:


    50. And all came with nimbi and aureoles and gloriae, bearing palms and harps and swords and olive crowns, in robes whereon were woven the blessed symbols of their efficacies, inkhorns, arrows, loaves, cruses, fetters, axes, trees, bridges, babes in a bathtub, shells, wallets, shears, keys, dragons, lilies, buckshot, beards, hogs, lamps, bellows, beehives, soupladles, stars, snakes, anvils, boxes of vaseline, bells, crutches, forceps, stags' horns, watertight boots, hawks, millstones, eyes on a dish, wax candles, aspergills, unicorns































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    Synonyms for "shear"

    shear fleece clip prune shave trim pare lop crop

    "shear" definitions

    (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves


    a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it


    cut with shears


    shear the wool from


    cut or cut through with shears


    become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain