The long bench with its huge-jawed wooden vises, and the little dusty windows above looking out into the orchard, and the brown planes and the row of shiny saws, and the most wonderful pattern squares and triangles and curves, each hanging on its own peg; and above, in the rafters, every sort and size of curious wood.
"Adventures In Contentment"
David Grayson AKA: Ray Stannard Baker
On the whole, I now decided in favor of a United States passport decorated with my picture and enough vises to resemble the diplomatic history of the Continent.
"The Log of a Noncombatant"
Horace Green
The principles involved in holding work in the vise so as to keep it true and avoid springing it for milling machine work, are the same as those already described with reference to shaping machine vises.
"Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II"
Joshua Rose