She'd threaten, but she wouldn't hurt a hair of your head, unless scissoring off one of your Hyperion curls injured it when she took it for a keepsake.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
Normally Fay cringed his shoulders a trifle and was inclined to slither, but now he strode aggressively, his legs scissoring in a fast, low goosestep.
"The Creature from Cleveland Depths"
Fritz Reuter Leiber
Hood slept tranquilly, his bed littered with the afternoon's New York papers which evidently he had been scissoring when he fell asleep.
"The Madness of May"
Meredith Nicholson