There was a moving about within, the scrape of a match, and finally the door opening slightly, a figure peering out.

The Corner had had many things to talk about during its brief existence, but nothing to compare with a man who entered a shooting scrape with such a fellow as Scar-faced Lewis all for the sake of a spray of mint.

"The match scraped on the box and flared up dully and in the same instant I heard a faint sound behind me.

A key scraped in the lock.

You're just a chubby rascal with a grin upon your face, Just seven years o' gladness, an' a hard and trying case; You think the world's your playground, an' in all you say an' do You fancy everybody ought to bow an' scrape to you; Dull care's a thing you laugh at just as though 'twill never be, So I wonder, little fellow, why you mean so much to me.

Then calling color to my aid, as far as my limited means admitted, I scraped from the edges of the moose-hide a portion of the red-streaked fat, and, having impasted therewith the bacchanalian nose of my subject, I stepped back a few paces to contemplate the effect.

A great shame at her smelling, grease-caked dress-front smote her, too, and she stood back in a doorway, scraping at it with a futile forefinger.

Do not scrape off the scales, but take out the gills and inside, and cleanse thoroughly; wipe them dry, flour and dip them into egg, and sprinkle over with bread crumbs.

The bushes scratched and scraped against the buggy, and Mr. Harry looked very much annoyed.

Terrence had only got him out of one scrape into another, until he had come to mistrust the good judgment and sound discretion of his friend.

So rapidly does its volatile oil evaporate, that even when scraped for the table, it almost immediately spoils by exposure to the air.

I'll warrant Priscilla Mullins would have found a way out of it if she had been in the same scrape as Lady Jane.

For although Dr. Mary Arkroyd was, and knew herself to be, no dazzling genius at her professionin moments of candor she would speak of having "scraped through" her qualifying examinationsshe had a high opinion of her own common sense and her power of guiding weaker mortals.

Then she heard Gratton curse nervously; the match had broken and his knuckles had scraped along the rock.

"We've got to get out of this scrape by our own efforts," muttered Holman.

In Yorkshire, the water-scrophularia (Scrophularia aquatica), is in children's language known as "fiddle-wood," so called because the stems are by children stripped of their leaves, and scraped across each other fiddler-fashion, when they produce a squeaking sound.

Jack Easy, Peter Simple, and all those fellows used to get into worse scrapes than this, and they always managed to get out of them somehow; so

Have to go work scrape about and find something else to eat.

And just as I had resigned myself to be his entrée, by great luck his big middle got wedged in the bottom of the V, and his scales scraped like the plates of a ship against a stone pier!"

When the mass had attained the consistency of a thin jelly, it was scraped out of the pot with a chip and preserved on a leaf sprinkled with ashes.

40 Perhaps I may recover still; That sum and more are in my will? 'Fool,' says the vision, 'now 'tis plain, Your life, your soul, your heaven was gain, From every side, with all your might, You scraped, and scraped beyond your right;

The bars were up, and a log chain wound around each bar and locked to the post; but they removed the bars quietly by wrapping their scrapes around the chain, to prevent the noise alarming the watchman.

Instead of putting the pans back, she tilted them up against the hopper, squatted down in front and with her slim forefinger, scraped down the sides and bottom of each pan so that she and Billy could scoop up and convey to their mouths, by means of their three crooked fingers, all that had not gone into the basket.

A few moments later the little skiff scraped alongside the Bismarck.