My sight is failing me. I have flies in my head. There is always one of them that hides this name from me. in mercy, in pity, take away the fly and bring me a pair of pincers. With good pincers I will seek that name even in the last fibers of this heart which beats no more." He added with a terrible air: The dead do not open their teeth. The one who lives will speak. You shall see how I will make him speak. You shall see how I will make him speak.英文原著 · 《Andre Cornelis》
After the fortune teller had burned all her grass, she placed the bird bones on the charcoal and turned them over again and again with a small pair of bronze pincers. As the bones blackened, she began to examine them and then suddenly her face took on an expression of fear and pain. She nervously tore off the kerchief which bound her head and, contracted with convulsions, began snapping out short, sharp phrases. "I see . I see the God of War. His life runs out . horribly. After it a shadow .英文原著 · 《Beasts, Men and Gods》
"O thou, that with thy fingers dost dismail thee,"
Began my Leader unto one of them,
"And makest of them pincers now and then,英文原著 · 《Inferno》
There shine upon the second shield A hammer and pincers bright; Them carries Vidrik Verlandson, Ne'er gives he quarter in fight.英文原著 · 《Romantic Ballads》
Then all who sat at table, beginning with the King, said, one that he deserved the gallows, another that he merited the wheel, a third the pincers, a fourth to be thrown from a precipice; in short one proposed this punishment and another that. At last it came to the turn of the seven wicked women to speak, who, although they did not much relish this conversation, yet, as the truth comes out when the wine goes about, answered, that whoever had the heart basely to touch only this quintessence of the charms of love deserved to be buried alive in a dungeon.英文原著 · 《Stories from Pentamerone》
And again advances the executioner, with a pair of pincers in his hand. Eleonore looks at him through eyes flaming with anger.英文原著 · 《The Daughter of an Empress》