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

" So on Saturday evening Arthur drove his wife over to the Sizer farm, and long before they reached there they heard the scraping of fiddles, mingled with shouts and boisterous laughter.

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

When they entered the kitchen the draught from the door scattered the ashes about, and when they piously attempted to collect them again they succeeded only in gathering together the scrapings of the flags, a collection of accumulated dirt, in which there could be but little of Uncle Macquart.

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.

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.

Alfred came lumbering up stairs, after giving his boots an unusual scraping and cleansing preparatory to entering upon that part of the premises which to him was generally forbidden ground.

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.

Now scrape out all the inside, being careful not to break the apples; mix scrapings with sugar, cinnamon, raisins, a few pounded almonds and add a little white wine and the grated peel of one lemon.

All of us paddling hard scraping and bumpingwe got through by the skin of our teeth, and managed to make the bank and moor our dugouts.

The houses come to their very edges, except for a narrow strip hardly to be classed as a sidewalk, originally left, presumably, only for the purpose of preventing the scraping of the front of the building by the wheels of passing carts and carriages.

Simultaneously there reached his ears the scraping of metal implements in the soft soil, the dull thud of earth falling regularly.

Some minutes later, at twenty-five to seven, I lit two candles on the desk, and sat to write to her, the pistol at my right hand; but I had hardly begun, when I thought that I heard a sound at the three-step door, which was only four feet to my left: a sound which resembled a scraping of her slipper; I stole to the door, and crouched, listening: but I could hear nothing further.

Scrape the mucous surface firmly with the back of a knife blade, and rub up the scrapings in a mortar with fine sand.

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.