sugar tongs

Antique doll furniture and sterling silver sugar tongs were half off.

Sugar tongs, like everything else, have risen in price from a decade ago, when they sold for $20 each.

Emily watched her aunt's long white fingers as they touched the milk jug and the sugar tongs.

Dimity dropped the sugar tongs in her dismay.

The scallop motif is found on the tips of a set of silver sugar tongs made in 1820.

What really seized her fancy were the lemon slices and the silver sugar tongs; a touch of class there, she reckoned.

Inside the cup is an innovative way to dispense ice: a pair of sugar tongs from an 18th-century tea set.

Sugar nippers are rarer and more elaborate than sugar tongs, but served the same function.

"There are more than 400 pairs of sugar tongs in the collection," Mr. Kossack said.

Rydell watched as a small, highly polished steel claw appeared, looking a lot like a pair of articulated sugar tongs his mother had owned.

'No.' Silver tray, white linen, sugar tongs.

'He's got a very pointed look if I don't use the sugar tongs, I know that.'

Homes were well furnished with clocks, Staffordshire tea services, silver-plated sugar tongs and a range of utensils and ornaments to display.

A similar conversation at the dinner parties he and Angela held would lead the mind inevitably to a car vacuum cleaner or a useless pair of sugar tongs.

Lonchodectes had long jaws with many short teeth, and the jaws were compressed vertically, like "a pair of sugar tongs with teeth".

Soon after he died of anthrax seven years later, she married Edward Stanton, who had been transported for stealing 10 silver spoons and a pair of sugar tongs.

Harry was "on to something big", as Norman put it, involving the Pentagon, a rash of 32 mysterious disappearances since 1949, silver sugar tongs, and an Ant Farm.

The collection includes 467 sugar tongs and shells, 269 ladles, 126 forks, 46 knives, 151 pieces of holloware, 36 serving pieces, 43 pairs of spectacles and 35 pieces of jewelry.

There was a blur of activity as she performed the alchemical ceremony of making tea, buttering scones, arranging biscuits, hooking sugar tongs on the basin . . . She sat back.

Between 1794 and 1797 he created silver plates in partnership with one George Bourne, but Northcote is also known for creating spoons and sugar tongs with intricate and - for the era - strange designs.

Scarcely had she finished speaking when she saw beside her a little silver tray with a gilt coffee-pot, two cups of rare porcelain, a sugar basin of fine crystal, silver sugar tongs, and some good fresh white bread.

There are many lovely things in this show, among them silver sugar tongs shaped like scissors by the 18th-century Bostonian Barnabas Webb, and an English tea caddy that is an oval polygon filled with triangular compartments (circa 1840).

The pitcher, which dates from the 1760's, is one of 400 vessels, ladles and sugar tongs presented in this exhibition of mostly Philadelphia silver, some pieces of which have never been exhibited before and none of which have been on view since 1981.

PENNSYLVANIA SILVER SHOW Silver spoons, sugar tongs, pitchers, buckles, napkin rings, teapots and hair ornaments are among the items in a new exhibit at the Chester County Historical Society in West Chester, Pa.

Similarly, she employs the silver implements of formal meals - the tarnished sauce boats, sugar tongs, grape scissors, salvers, crumb scoops and knife rests found in her grandmother's sideboard when the house was cleared out - to dramatize "the trauma of the middle class occasioned by the death of domestic service" in the 20th century.