I arrived in Goa from the UK early in 1995, after scrapping a potentially lucrative yet un-inviting career in accountancy, originally no more than another faceless backpacker with meagre funds hoping to enjoy the chilled hazy life of a shack-wallah.

You want me to scrap that three-inch steel door, do you?" "Kennedy, I'll buy that particular scrap from you atalmost its weight in gold.

"I'll scrap the engines, sir, but I'll do that!"

She put the meat bones and scrap meat on the coals in an iron pot in some water.

It is to be hoped that the town will never be inveigled into scrapping this memorial, which for quaintness and unconscious humour is almost unsurpassed.

Radicals would scrap the old and replace it with a new structure and new activities geared to the new possibilities and the new requirements.

He had not yet scrapped religion.

Let us then 'scrap' the existent Bagdad route altogether, and consider not what the Germans want, but what we want, which, as has been already stated, is a direct land communication with suitable Mediterranean ports.

And as a last example of the present hysterical disposition to scrap things before they have been fairly tried is the outcry against examinations, which has done so much to take the keenness off the edge of school work in the last few years.

"We were in front of Tournai at the time, scrapping our way from house to house through Faubourg de Lille, the city's western suburb.

The nave, though Norman at its heart, has been altered in a most interesting way to Perpendicular without scrapping the earlier work.