Scraps

Examples

• Scraps of old copy-books and exercises litter the dirty floor. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• His few common tools and various scraps of leather were at his feet and on his bench. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Students had to come at great cost to themselves to this crowded centre because there was no other way of gathering even scraps of knowledge. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Drawing forth two very small scraps of paper, he proceeded-- 'And now, gentlemen, but one word more. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• These scraps of paper fail me. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Another little book or two were lying near, and a common basket of common fruit, and another basket full of strings of beads and tinsel scraps. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He looked to see what it could be, and--behold, he saw that it was the remains of Scraps, who had been lost in the burning house and roasted as perhaps never has a pig been roasted since. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The workmen all stand on high benches, up from the floor, and under the hogs we find troughs to keep any scraps from getting under the workmen’s feet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• No one had ever considered the possibility of eating pork, for in those days pigs were pets, and just as every family today has its dog Rover, so then, every family had its pig Scraps. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In colonial times, every family made its own supply of soap, utilizing, for that purpose, household scraps often regarded by the housekeeper of to-day as worthless. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It was an occupation in which he would be apt to glean much gossip and many stray scraps of information, but little that would tend to broaden his mind. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The first scraps of this skull were found in an excavation for road gravel in Sussex. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was all gaiety; scraps of songs fell from his lips; every thought of his mind--every object about us, gleamed under the sunshine of his mirth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But there must be many in our rank who manage with much less: they must do with commoner things, I suppose, and look after the scraps. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There were no signs, however, of any ashes or scraps. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

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