15 collocations for salvaging

But I lay back on my pillows, warm with happiness, filled with gratitude that in spite of the many controversies in which my husband's mother and I had been involved, and the verbal indignities which she had sometimes heaped upon me, we had managed to salvage so much real affection as a basis for our future relations with each other.

Occasionally the boom of explosions coming from the devastated areas tells us that our brave allies the Chinese are still on deck, salvaging ammunition after their own unique fashion of rapping shells smartly over the nose-caps with sledge-hammers to test whether they be really duds or no.

The Unchanged IF we could salvage Babylon From times's grim heap of dust and bones; If we could charm cool waters back To sing against her thirsty stones; If, on a day, We two should stray Down some long, Babylonian way Perhaps the strangest sight of all Would be the street boys playing ball.

The deplored intimacy had begun on a morning when Wilbur was early abroad salvaging golf balls from certain obscure nooks of the course where Newbern's minor players were too likely to abandon the search for them on account of tall grass, snakes, poison ivy, and other deterrents.

"It looked like rain, and so Wilmer and I went to an old dressing station to salvage some cover.

In January, out of the hundred or more remaining, they salvaged the following: 1.

It might have enabled us to salvage the gold hidden below, but I was not greatly concerned for this, as my one and only purpose was the preservation of Dorothy.

I salvaged the oars, however, and had just got them safely on board, when the Betty came throbbing up, and circled neatly round us.

The Merle twin was to go back to the evil place, salvage the pails, leave them at the Penniman house, and hasten to a certain confectioner's at the heart of the town, where a lavish reward would be at once his.

From a corner behind some fishing-rods she salvaged a pair of summer-dried snowshoes; they had facilitated many a previous hike in the winter woods with her man of a thousand adventures.

He descended to the pantry and salvaged a piece of pie, then unchained the front door and stepped forth into the soft October night.

" GERMANS ABANDONED MUCH EQUIPMENT While they were chasing the Germans after they had broken the Hindenburg line, American soldiers salvaged enormous quantities of equipment thrown away or abandoned by the boches in their haste to get out of the Americans' way.

Need of population will be best answered by efforts to salvage the race.

It says, "Ref. your S.C. 1985 please ask PIG if they have salvaged any German socks.

As he sits, glorious and beautiful, the same hunter, who earlier had salvaged the iron spike from the fish, chances to pass by.

15 collocations for  salvaging