A peeler man who heard the din came in to see the show;
He tried to run the bushman in, but he refused to go.
And when at last the barber spoke, and said "'Twas all in fun—
'Twas just a little harmless joke, a trifle overdone."

I was standin' there and the car came down the street with the two peelers comin' after them and I'm standin' here with [my son] in my arms.

How do you fight back o get your right back to walk free down the street when your name and address singles you out for every Peeler on the beat?

Special Irish Branch was looking for Fenians in South Kensington; going from there to a Catholic church for Easter Mass was very nearly the stupidest thing Eliza could do, short of walking into Scotland Yard and cursing the peelers out in Irish.

It was Jem and Georgie that was in mortal danger, true, but there was not one of us that wanted the peelers asking us questions.

She and I took a few minutes together once the belts began rolling with red tomatoes and with the shiny cans which clanked their hollow wind-chime twang as they paraded down the chute on the way to their own conveyor belts which ran parallel to the wide ones the tomatoes rode on. In order to get these few minutes she'd had to implement a schedule for the peelers, who were always fighting like schoolchildren to get to the front of the line to claim their places, vying for the best spots where they could grab the biggest tomatoes to fill their cans faster.

I like to use a swivel peeler on my apples, mainly because a good peeler removes the skin only, without hacking off the flesh underneath the way a knife will, even in dept hands.

The OXO peeler was a game-changer. More than 10 million have been sold to date, and it threw open the entire market in peelers, causing numerous rivals to be invented: serrated fruit peelers, vegetable peelers with curved blades, Y-shaped and C-shaped and U-shaped peelers in any colour you desire (and many you don't).

What the Romans didn't have was anything like the ergonomic vegetable peeler.

To prepare the vignette, the limits of all control areas are scribed as thin lines on one sheet of coated plastic, and a mask is prepared for each of the two colors on plastic sheets with a peeler coating.

Canning apples ("peelers") must be over 2-1/2 inches in diameter; peelers may have surface damage since they will be peeled in the process of making apple sauce or slices, but they must be round for the peeling machines to handle them properly.

Xanthan gum was introduced into a traditional, wax-based coating formulation for easy peelers.

It will be necessary to continually monitor the holes for voids and the plating for peelers -- but this is a good idea for any plating operation which uses dry film photoresist.

They bought peelers [crabs that would soon shed] and kept them in large wooden floats until the crabs shed.

Once the crab has molted, the new shell takes about four days to harden. Just after shedding, the blue crab's shell is soft enough to eat. Watermen harvest soft shell crabs as peelers (about to shed), rank peelers (within hours of shedding) and busters (in the process of shedding).

It is rarer to find paired edible crabs, and potential peelers need to be tested.

Fancy a wave, one of those little peelers?

If he could ride a trend as well as he could ride a First Point Malibu peeler—well, that's how the game was played.

As the next five-foot peeler rolled by, Lee grasped his board and clenched his teeth.

It took a real good bronc peeler ( horse breaker ) to handle those big 79 broncs ;

My old daddy always said that the purpose of breakin a horse was to ride it and if you got one to break you just as well to saddle up and climb aboard and get on with it. John Grady grinned. Was your old daddy a certified peeler?

"Where do you keep your horse?” Snakeroot flushed. “Ain't got one. Never did. I can't ride.” “Can't . . . ? You said you were a horse peeler.”

The rest, on the contrary, the rather congratulated themselves on having parted with such suspicious company; -- and the little tailor had scarcely time to enunciate his advice, "to be chatting and walking on, as if they weren't thinking of or minding them at all," — when the sergeant of the party coolly took his little self by the collar, while the remaining Peelers, surrounding the others, made them severally captives.

It at once became abundantly manifest, that those six Peelers had arrived with some object in view; and before the Sovereign People had time even to guess what that object might be, one of the Peelers very coolly depreived the horse of his nose-bag; another just as coolly returned the bit to his mouth; and a third, with equal coolness, go hold of the reins, when a fourth, who was certainly not quite so cool, did, by virtue of the application of a short round truncheon, persuade the passive animal to move on.

The Peelers in their searches were always threatening, abusive, bad mannered and even threatened to shoot the women and were very disrespectful.

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