Scrapes
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Examples
- You've got me out of a score of scrapes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If he had held his tongue he would have kept out of scrapes that he got into. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Them as sells heart's love and heart's blood, to get out thar scrapes, de Lord'll be up to 'em! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You must have a prime minister, or you will get yourself into a series of scrapes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I was always first in the most galliantest scrapes in my younger days! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I'll be as prim as I can and not get into any scrapes, if I can help it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Really, Dodo, can't you hear how he scrapes his spoon? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Certain splashes of white show in high relief upon his dirty face, and he scrapes his one eyebrow with the handle of the brush. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Fred had known men to whom he would have been ashamed of confessing the smallness of his scrapes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Respecting de Hamal, I fear she is under an illusion; the man's character is known to me, all his antecedents, all his scrapes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It might have been as well, perhaps, if you had been in my place, but you always contrive to keep out of these scrapes. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Typist: Pierce