He heard the scrape of metal on metal, as when a man gathers up coins in his hand out of a heap.

She never got the scrape ov a pen from him to say was he alive or dead.

Anon Master Shiach was surprised and gratified to receive the following epistle: "My dear sir, I send you these few scrapes to tell you as you have found a way to be a year of age the morn.

Charles Eustace confides his scrape to Polyglot, and conceals his young wife in the tutor's private room.

Be the powers I'm out o' that, and divil a like scrape will I get in agin wid my own consint.

Thus ended my first love scrape.

Do they appreciate a difficulty the greater trouble it requires to surmount, or do they enjoy a scrape the more, that they have to squeeze themselves into it by main force?

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.

I have done wrong, and I am sorry for't; they'll never find me in siccan a scrape again.

People will forget the scrapes that the rich American got into in his youth.

J.M.W. The Japanese Mason Without haste, gathering scrape of the trowel, slap of cement, reaching for a block, setting and tapping it level, turning with the wheelbarrow, graceful, sweating, freed of every moment.

Ned also expressed a desire to see it, and, after consulting Jerry, I assented to their request, believing with him, "that they'd find mighty hard work to git inter any scrape in such a God-forsaken town as that was, anyhow.

and I know you're all right now, remembering clear enough everything that happened since you was arrested, and I don't see what difference it makes whether or not you remember who your great-aunt was, and the scrapes you got in as a kid.

A daring, dashing, care-for-nobody young English sailor, delighting in adventure, and loving a good scrape.

Zusammen scharrento scrape together.

He was but a year older than Rosamond, and her favourite of all, whose scrapes she had shared, befriended, defended, and scolded in turn, very handsome, very lazily daring, droll and mischievous, a sort of concentration of all the other De Lanceys.

she cried, holding out the bracelet in her left hand and shewing a scrape which had drawn blood on her right wrist.

I shall say 'See, he throws up the earth, scrapety scrape!'"

For God's sake, now, be careful of the men;we are short-handed as it is, and can't afford such another scrape as that off Porto Ferrajo.

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.

He thought, however, he would try to avoid a scrape, and told his customer he had not so much sugar to spare.

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.