249 Verbs to Use for the Word scoring

Erminia, is this brave or just in you, To pay his score of Love with what's my due?

It is as if one saw scores of the same face, differentiated here and there by a beard.

I'd be crow's food by this time if it hadn't been for you, Pete!" "That only wipes out one score.

That tied the score and also put an end to Collins' work in the box; Stahl took him out and substituted Hall.

Yet I daresay the fellow is punctual in settling his milk-score, etc. Keep to your bank, and the bank will keep you.

Paula, bending over that furry faun-like head, reading off the same score with him, responding to the same emotions from the music.... Fantastic, of course.

This brilliant feat, coupled with the gallant manner in which he had continued his innings when hurt, and so enabled Oaks to run up the score, caused the black sheep of the Sixth Form to be regarded as the hero of the day.

In view of the restrictions imposed upon correspondents in the French and Russian theatres of war, I suppose that instead of finding fault with the seating arrangements I should thank my lucky stars that I did not have to write my dispatches with the aid of an ordnance-map and a guide-book in a hotel bedroom a score or more of miles from the firing-line.

The simple request, "Make something pretty of your own," brings a score of original combinations and designs,either the old thoughts in different shape or something fresh and audacious which hints of genius.

Standing at any point on this shore line of human habitations, you can look out across the wide landscape and count a score of coal-breakers within the limits of your first glance.

Birds, blinded by the light, whirred and fluttered into the open space above the water, falling helplessly so near Dick that he could have caught and killed a score to surprise Jack with a game breakfast, when he returned.

Then came the match with foils and this also went to the Indefatigable, making the score nine to two, for this match carried five points for the winner.

She knew a half-score of girls who had tramped the town over in a desperate effort to find a vacancy.

And then I married, and was rich As I could wish to be; Of sheep I numbered a full score, And every year increased my store.

I had even changed with the women of the house the silk dress I wore, and my fine linen, for the mean rags you cleansed me of last night, that they might pay themselves so; and when all was expended, and the last trick tried that pride, honor, and modesty could wink at, I came away in the night, leaving no unsettled scores behind me.

To read them is like passing through a new village, meeting a score of different human types, and finding in each one something to love or to remember.

Death himself cannot quit scores with him; like the demoniac in the gospel, he lives among tombs, nor is all the holy water shed by widows and orphans a sufficient exorcism to dispossess him.

As we strode along he asked me a score of questions, to all of which I just shook my head, asking him to wait a little.

Of that preacher's sermons I remember not one word, though I must have heard scores of themonly that they were interminably long and dull and that my legs grew weary of sitting and that I was often hungry.

They were not critical, and I told the story of Great Meadows over and over again, a score of times.

Turning a score of mill-wheels, The stream no more ran free; White sails on the winding river, White sails on the far-off sea.

I remember scores of you;how fortunately ye had, and still have, escaped the contagion of the metropolitan vices, though distant but five miles; and how many of you have I conversed with, who, at an adult age, had never beheld the degrading assemblage of its knaveries and miseries!

HARTER, RICHARD S. Self-instructional manual in handling test scores, by Richard S. Harter & C. H. Smeltzer.

the green's below the red; With one half inning still to play the score is three to two, The Shantys have a man on base,be brave my lads, and true; Bold Captain Muggsy comes to bat, a batsman he of note, And slowly o'er the ash-heap walks O'Reilly's billy-goat.

This is the history of my finding a score or more of rare plants, which I could name.

249 Verbs to Use for the Word  scoring