Through the trees, coming up now, were two more of the ill-featured party, a swart, squat Italian, and just at his heels a ragged scarecrow of a man named Brail.

By Benny stood that scarecrow of a man, Brail.

She talks now sure for all the time that's pass'd: Her tongue is like a scarecrow in a tree, That clatters still with every puff of wind.

O Master Parson, there he stands like a scarecrow, to drive me away from her that sticks as close to my heart as my shirt to my back, or my hose to my heel.

Hang him, whose verse cannot outbelch the wind, That cannot beard and brave Dan Aeolus; That, when the cloud of his invention breaks, Cannot outcrack the scarecrow thunderbolt.

He is a scarecrow to that ale-house, where he drinks not his morning draught, and apprehends a drunkard for not standing in the king's name.

It's a thing I never dreamt of doing in my life, and I'm sorry the poor beast is such a scarecrow; but it's a duty to punish that sort of crime against a woman, and now I'm sure you'll lend me one of your sticks.

Torn, emaciated, ragged, "a mere scarecrow," still wearing the hat perforated with buckshot, with his arms bound to his sides, he was driven before the levelled gun to the nearest house, that of a Mr. Edwards.

Indeed, this danger has been so often held up as a threat by one section, and so persistently used as a scarecrow by timid or profligate men in the other, that it has become one of the commonplaces of political contests.

The two of them had saved him in more ways than one, had faith in him when he wasn't much but a scarecrow, ignorant, profane, unmoral, miserable, a "gutter brat" as some one had once called him, a phrase he had never forgotten.

We are not concerned here, for example, to know Mr. Parsons's opinions about Slavery, and we are sure that the sharp insight and decisive judgment of his father would never have allowed him to be frightened by the now somewhat weather-beaten scarecrow of danger to the Union.

She went in to get it, but the old Dew mother turned her into a scarecrow and sent her home.

Clements Burleigh, who resided thirty years in the United States, says, in his "Advice to Emigrants," "It may be objected by some that it is dangerous to go to the frontier country, on account of the Indians, wild beasts, &c.; this is no more than a scarecrow.

It appears to be only a bundle of clothes, a scarecrow that has tumbled among the grain it once protected.

I give you my word you came through my sleep the same as a scarecrow or a dragon.

The tale of Cuffy Bear and the scarecrow.

(In The New Yorker, May 22, 1943) © 20May43; B586844. Charles Addams (A); 31Dec70; R497760. Victory garden has a skeleton for a scarecrow.

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The tale of Cuffy Bear and the scarecrow.

(In The New Yorker, May 22, 1943) © 20May43; B586844. Charles Addams (A); 31Dec70; R497760. Victory garden has a skeleton for a scarecrow.

It reminds me of the old farmer who set up such an outrageous looking scarecrow in his field that the crows not only let his present corn alone, but they actually brought back in their terrible fright all the corn they had stolen in the previous ten years.

gentlemen! was there ever such a poor sneaking scarecrow of an idol as that gaping straw-stuffed inanity you worship, and call honor?

Jerushy Jane! would n't be fit t' skin a skunk in them do's, would it?" "Got 'em off a scarecrow," I said.

Ware the scarecrow, grimly sitting, Crouched for silly things, like thee!

Everything I did she considered clumsy; God had given me two left hands; my coat fitted so badly, it made me look like a scarecrow; my walk was a cross between that of a duck and cock.