Crossword-Solution: TWEEZER 7 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

Though her hair was not stuck with jewels, she was not ashamed of a diamond cross; she was not, like some ladies, hung about with toys and trinkets, tweezer-cases, pocket-glasses, and essence-bottles; she used only a gold watch and an almanack to mark the hours and the holy days.

His said effects are to be exposed to sale by auction, at their office in the Haymarket, on the fourth of January next, and are as follow:-- A very rich tweezer-case, containing twelve instruments for the use of each hour in the day.

But see how oft ambitious aims are crossed, And chiefs contend till all the prize is lost! The lock, obtained with guilt, and kept with pain, In every place is sought, but sought in vain: With such a prize no mortal must be blest, So Heaven decrees: with Heaven who can contest? Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere, Since all things lost on earth are treasured there, There heroes’ wits are kept in ponderous vases, And beaux’ in snuff-boxes and tweezer-cases.

Steele, whose weakness for dress and show were proverbial, levelled many of his blunt shafts at its use; and Pope, who himself tells us 'of his wig all powder and all snuff his band,' let fly one of his keener arrows at the beaux, whose wit lay in their snuff-boxes and tweezer cases.

The result was that I could get screws back into their holes without dropping them, especially when I put little pads of Alnico on the point of each tweezer to give me a really potent magnet.