There are 12 different possible parings of the planes and directions.

Tiny parings fell on to the table; I brushed them away.

Did they find nail parings in her room, I wonder?"

He counted six of them, like fingernail parings on dusty velvet.

He had always been careful about hair clippings and nail parings, making sure to burn them.

Ay, and the very parings of our nails Shall pitch a field when we are dead.

I wouldn't let you touch the parings from my toenails."

He scratched at more moss, and tiny parings slithered down the stone.

The pilots stood out of range of the parings.

Nearly seven thousand pounds was more than cheese parings and candle ends, but he could afford it.

The novel generally focuses on various parings of lovers and the challenges that their unions create.

We toss all our grass clippings, garden weeds and vegetable parings on it.

Crisp broken flakes like transparent nail parings fell out.

By-products, such as straw, parings and waste in general, would be used in their production.

But I feel it is quite possible there are people living today that are descendants of "inter-terrestrial" parings.

Here comes one o' the parings.

Mandor had seen the whole world as his fingernail, to be cut at will and the parings thrown away.

Till some of the invaders were driven out, the imperial government would have to run on shoestrings and cheese parings.

'Yes - that's why he collected your nail parings.

Still, when he had looked back from the gate, he had seen his mother kneeling among the potato parings.

You have a right to leave it all behind, like the clippings of your hair or the parings of your nails.

To effect this spell, he had to get samples of Fusonio's hair and finger-nail parings.

Burros he kept, one or two according to his pack, for this chief excellence, that they would eat potato parings and firewood.

The explosion at the beginning had been a bomb made by the convicts from nail parings or playing cards or who knows what?

'There,' I said, as I put the parings into her hand.

Made near the end of his life, the work is pared down.

They really are trying to pare down for the 90's.

She will probably have to pare her time by a second and a half.

For the most part, programs were pared rather than killed.

He pared me down in this way for a long time.

At three hours, it seems to have been pared down from something much longer.

"Maybe this is all about paring down, and doing with less."

By 2000, the show had started being significantly pared down.

That has forced him to pare the program to 35 to 40 children.

By opening day, that number has to be pared to 25.

For example, it has pared its work force by 20 percent, or 7,000 jobs, in three years.

Expect us to add benefits rather than pare them down over time.

Hispanic officials hope to meet today to pare the field.

He pares it down to the quick all the time.

But not every national chain has been trying to pare its work force.

The county has been working for the last few years to pare down its deficit.

He pared down from over 600 to fewer than 500 but not without problems.

"People who hung in last year are paring back and taking some risk off the table."

It has pared about 40 yards a game against the run in the season's second half.

My work is no longer so pared down, and I pretty much use whatever materials are at hand.

Thus does the age of science pare down our liberties.

The pieces are pared down; the feeling needs to be the same.

It has the manner of something pared down in all the wrong ways.

The only question is how much further they must pare production in the next decade.

Eventually, he plans to pare the central staff from 5,200 to 4,600.