sugar tongs

Use the butter-knife, salt-spoon, and sugar-tongs as scrupulously when alone, as if a room full of people were watching you.

He passed the sugar to the captain and stood before Mr. Sabin with the sugar-tongs in his hand.

"It must take years to understand it all," Cordelia ventured, toying absent-mindedly with the sugar-tongs.

"Walks like a pair of spavined sugar tongs," was Waddles' comment.

She reminds me of a pair of old-fashioned silver sugar-tongs; you know I am very fond of sugar.