"It does seem a shame to put the shears to it-but you never'll git any wear out of it the way it is, and I don't believe-" "Mis' Hawley!"
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
He had found Donald's shears, too, and had clipped the shaggy growth about his chin to a modest beard, and shorn his head of some of its shock of hair.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
In the centre of the grass were shears with a stone hanging from them on block and tackle.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch