A minute later, she leaves me; coming back with a basin of odd scraps of food.

Beds, tables and chairs, including a high chair for Winnie, were made of scraps from the wood box, and for a long time Mr. Bird was most domesticated.

Viewed thus, customs, laws, institutions, sciences, arts, codes of morality and honor, systems of life, become inventions, come upon, tried out, standardized, established until scrapped in everlasting search for more and more perfect means of freeing body and soul from their congenital thralldom to a host of innumerable masters.

Besides, they had a scrap with me.

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.

While she looked he restored the scrap to his pocket-book, and the pocket-book to his pocket.

Perhaps the queen's suitors (he said) out of their full feasts would bestow a scrap on him: for he could wait at table, if need were, and play the nimble serving-man, he could fetch wood (he said) or build a fire, prepare roast meat or boiled, mix the wine with water, or do any of those offices which recommended poor men like him to services in great men's houses.

Fanny tore the yellow scrap into a circle, and in the centre of this circle made a hole as large as her finger.

We didn't talk of anything but fights at Gazathe surprise at Nazareth, when the German General Staff fled up the road on foot in its pyjamasthe three-day scrap at Nebi Samwil, when Australians and Turks took and retook the same hill half a dozen times, and parched enemies took turns drinking from one flask while the shells of both sides burst above them.

He crammed in anything that came into his headhis reminiscences, scraps out of old dreary books he had read, paragraphs snipped out of the papers.

To some the ivories will always be but crudely carven bone, the jades the potter's sham, the musk and aloes the product of a soap factory, the joss but a cigar-store Indian, and the Oriental dainties of Hong Fah the scrappings of a Yankee grocery store.

His species find occasional scraps along the track and do not fear the trains.

This is in Latin; and though it don't approach the other [Macpherson], there are fine scraps among it.'

The author of 'Supernatural Religion' is doubtless right in deprecating that 'illogical zeal which flings to the pursuing wolves of doubt and unbelief, scrap by scrap,' all the distinctive doctrines of Christianity.

"Oh, we 'ad a bit of a scrap down Limehouse way with some Scotchies.

You aren't a scrap like your mother.

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

"Now you know that was nothing to scrap about," she heard him say, "You're both full of fighting whisky, but a bunkhouse isn't any place to fight.