Scraped

Examples

• It isn't a mere pleasure trip to me, girls, she said impressively, as she scraped her best palette. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer passengers than usual. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Its main features are described as follows: The types, being rubbed or scraped narrower toward the foot, were to be fixed radially upon a cylinder. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I've raked, and scraped, and borrowed, and all but begged,--and the price of these two was needed to make up the balance, and I had to give them up. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• In short, I do not believe there was a single girl of that description within two miles of us, with whom he had not scraped a kind of acquaintance. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• So, though we had escaped a sunken rock, which we scraped upon in the passage, I thought this escape of rather more importance to me. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Yes, I scraped away the sand on the surface, and in a little while I came to a strip of paper hidden beneath, which had writing on it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The wind rasped and scraped at the corners of the house, and filliped the eavesdroppings like peas against the panes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Mr. Franklin scraped off all the nice varnish with pumice-stone, and made what he described as a surface to work on. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And you scraped away the sand, and dug a hollow place in it? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I can't abide your losing the money you've scraped together for Alfred. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It is very well that I _had_ scraped it together; and it is you who will have to suffer, for you must teach the boy yourself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They are then trimmed and scraped by hand, after which the real tanning process begins. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The gravel walk and terrace had been scraped quite clean. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A mixed force of no fewer than 10,000 men was scraped together, an enormous force for the time and country. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Instead of going down into tough sub-soil, the mound-makers probably scraped up some of the surface soil and carried it to the mound. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Obviously they have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• When your lawyers, your politicians, your intriguers, your men of the Exchange fall ill, and have not scraped money together, _they_ become poor. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

Edited by Josie