| 1. | I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 2. | And do not shear the fleeces that I graze. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | So many years ere I shall shear the fleec. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep. - from The King James Bible |
| 5. | lap She made to clip or shear his hair away, And made his foemen all his craft espien. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 6. | And Laban went to shear his sheep and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's. - from The King James Bible |
| 7. | And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep. - from The King James Bible |
| 8. | All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep. - from The King James Bible |
| 9. | and glasses, the shears and flat-iron. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 10. | Think you I bear the shears of destin. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 11. | Bent down double with his shears clipping. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 12. | Who, with his shears and measure in his hand. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 13. | Who, with his shears and measure in his hand. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 14. | Well, there went but a pair of shears between us. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 15. | So Oz brought a pair of tinsmith's shears and cut a small, square hole in the left side of the Tin Woodman's breast. - from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum |
| 16. | Red Murray touched Mr Bloom's arm with the shears and whispere. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 17. | Red Murray's long shears sliced out the advertisement from the newspaper in four clean strokes. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |