Pair

Ting, ting, ting! went the bell again. Every body sat down; the curtain shook, rose sufficiently high to display several pair of yellow boots paddling about, and there it remained.

Day after day, with the stamp and shuffle of sixty pair of bare feet behind me, each pair under a 60-lb. load.

So, one evening, I made a speech in English with gestures, not one of which was lost to the sixty pairs of eyes before me, and the next morning I started the hammock off in front all right.

Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.

I couldn't decide which of the pair of designer shirts I preferred, so I bought the pair.

[S]he had finished the second sock, and pulled its pair out of the bag before handing them to her husband.

Must be good at athletics, home repairs, making mince interesting and finding the pair to the other glove.

Spouses should make a great pair.

a pair of scissors; two pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans

A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders.

They turned a pair to end the fifth.

The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies.

She's got a gorgeous pair.

Grow a pair, mate.

There were two pairs on the final vote.

One-line business is optional; three-line business compulsory; when it's two lines you have to be on parade unless you have secured a 'pair' and cleared it with the 'pairing whip'.

Thou lieſt; I ha’ nothing buy my ſkin, / And my cloaths; my ſword here, and my ſelf; / Two Crowns in my pocket; two pair of Cards; / And three falſe Dice: I can ſwim like a fiſh / Raſcal, nothing to hinder me.

It would never do, you know, for me to be plunging myself into poverty and shabbiness and love in one room up three pair of stairs, and all that sort of thing.

The wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom's party/bride's party.

Brown as I am, an Ethiopian dame / Inspired young Perseus with a gen’rous flame; / Turtles and doves of diff’ring hues unite, / And glossy jet is paired with shining white.

It was not possible to pair my smartphone with an incompatible smartwatch.

If your computer has a built-in, non-Microsoft transceiver, you can pair the device directly to the computer by using your computer’s Bluetooth software configuration program but without using the Microsoft Bluetooth transceiver.

The raven, in short, when he pairs, which he does at the earliest moment permitted by the laws of ravendom, pairs for life […]

My Heart was made to fit and pair with thine, / Simple and plain, and fraught with artleſs Tenderneſs; / Form’d to receive one Love, and only one, / But pleas’d and proud, and dearly fond of that, / It knows not what there can be in Variety, / And would not if it could.

Why dreghis þou þis dole, & deris þi seluyn? / Lefe of þis Langore, as my lefe brother, / Þat puttes þe to payne and peires þi sight.

It were good therefore, that Men in their Innouations, would follow the Example of Time it ſelfe ; which indeed Innouateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees, ſcarce to be perceiued : For otherwiſe, whatſoeuer is New, is vnlooked for ; And euer it mends Some, and paires Other […]

'No faith so fast', quoth she, 'but flesh does pair'