The longest game of the younger league's season lasted nineteen innings, Washington defeating Philadelphia in that combat 5 to 4, and it was played late in September when the two teams were scrapping for second place.

Germany means scrapping, and look where our ships are, or ought to be.

"A hemmed-in churchyard, pestiferous and obscenea beastly scrap of ground which a Turk would reject as a savage abomination, and a Kafir would shudder at.

Men who applaud such a sentiment are worthy allies of those so-called statesmen who regard international treaties as "a mere scrap of paper.

Serbia received compensation at Nia
, Pirot, and Vranja; Montenegro acquired the open roadstead of Antivari and a scrap of barren coast-line; but the hearts of both still clung to Bosnia.

If I could have sent her a scrap of a letter, or a message, or something, I should have felt better.

jirón, m., tatter, bit, scrap; flag, pennant.

Now at least such Powers as value national honour, and regard a national promise as something more than a gabble of ink on a scrap of paper, have resolved that they will suffer the tyranny of the Turk over his alien subject peoples to continue no longer.

goldarn an' blue blazes!" He had suddenly remembered having placed his memoranda in that hat, and as he studied its empty depths his mind pictured the important scrap fluttering along the sandy scene of his early-morning tumble.

But before he could reach him Policeman McCluire, mindful of the insult put upon him by this stranger, sprang between them and said: "Here, now, no scrapping here; get out of this," and shoved Hefty back with his hand.

So is the aboriginal African with a scrap of leopard skin, or a single bead upon a cord.

They are shabby, but they have paid for every scrap of old clothing with their toil; they are dirty, but they try to wash, and would be clean if they could afford the horrible expense of cleanliness; they are ignorant, but within twenty years how enormously their manners to each other have improved!

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

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.

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.

To-night Oates, captain in a smart cavalry regiment, has been 'scrapping' over chairs and tables with Debenham, a young Australian student.

"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.

I know not if Sheffield steel still keeps its position among the eternal verities, but in an age when so many of one's cherished beliefs are threatened with the scrap-heap, I count it of no small importance to be able to retain one's faith in the English lark and English wild flowers.

"We, who were driving the Racing Teams, had put our leaders to bed in the few bunks there were; for we could not afford to take any chances of our leaders scrapping in such close quarters, and possibly being put out of commission.

A scrap of paper.

It's nice to know how to scrap if scrapping has to be done, but it shouldn't ever have to be done,between nations, anyway."

"Now, Gus, cut out the scrapping.

All the men were Scrapping to see who would be Next to sit in the Hammock with her.

There will be much noise and some irregular scrapping for days, but the tin lid has been placed upon the grand attack.

In plotting and scrapping they were abreast of the worst and took the consequences.