He is perhaps best known for his comedic interruptions in what is otherwise a very sad play, such as asking Fran if she had used his secateurs during a heated argument.
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"We don't really hope for much of a harvest, " said Bahtiar, his fingers furiously working a pair of secateurs as a snow storm blew down the valley.
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In modern Europe, scissors only used for gardening work have existed since 1819, when the French aristocrat Antoine Francois Bertrand de Molleville was listed in " Bon Jardinier ", as the first inventor of secateurs.
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The work is backbreaking; a picker spends eight hours a day in the sun _ or worse, in the rain _ either bent over and wielding sharp cutters called secateurs, or lugging heavy boxes of fruit through the vine rows.
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Pruning is simple if you keep a single thought in mind when oiling up your secateurs, the scissors-like pruners that are absolutely necessary for this job : among the worst things you can do to a rose is to not prune it.
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In " Secateurs : The Flower People, " he tells how his father " passed away at home " and how his rural Oregon community celebrated the " wedding " of two members " renewing their vows ."
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In the utility room, the one that once used for administrative work, one an find tools for growing olives ( secateurs, nets, etc . ), their collection ( panniers ) and the extraction and storage of oil ( millstones, ntamintzanes, etc . ).
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A walk through the perfection of the knot gives rise not only to thoughts about herbs as mankind's servants, but also to the notion that these two must have secateurs for hands : they clip everything four or five times a year . ( They have a gardener one and a half days a week, and a lawn service, but otherwise do everything themselves .)
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As tools and materials, the conventional painter has his / her brushes and palette of paints, just as a skilled flower-arranger has recourse to secateurs, scissors and the bounty of nature-- flowers, leaves, dried grasses, twigs and tree branches, pine cones, etc . And in both cases, the success of the outcome depends to a large degree on the artist's eye, expertise and powers of imagination.
