The 541 occurrences of scrap

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"Keep cool, boys, and be ready to scrap if we have to."

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Farr harkened with interest to the story of the scrapping of the Honorable Daniel Breed as related by that gentleman himself.

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The scrapping of the Anti Ballistic Missile treaty, the expansion of NATO to Russia's borders, America's presence in central Asia and the Caucasus, Russia's "near abroad" - are traumatic reversals of fortune.

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One might as well expect to find it in a crowd of boys scrapping for pennies, or in a pack of hounds chasing a fox."

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Arizona and Wyoming and Texas will have to scrap it out for him there."

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It'll be a fight in the open, under the stars, with the clean, wet moss to lie down on, and not a scrappin'-match of freak phrases and law-books inside of a stinkin' court-room.

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Then he began to return to the taxi looking down and scrapping his feet against dirt and rocks like a child preferring to be left alone in his imagination.

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I thought the Professor had had enough scrapping for one twenty-four hours.

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We had now but one of our starboard nine-pounders on its carriage, and word came from below that our battery of twelves was all but knocked to scrap iron, and their ports blown into one yawning gap.

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We had now but one of our starboard nine-pounders on its carriage, and word came from below that our battery of twelves was all but knocked to scrap iron, and their ports blown into one yawning gap.

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I couldn't bear to see the mill going to scrap, and I told him a thing or two,--I had the facts and the figures.

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Prominent among the qualities contributing to his success was open-mindedness, "a willingness to be shown," to scrap machinery when his competitors still clung to older methods.

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It'll be fifty in a couple of years, and then we'll have to scrap our machinery and turn over the trade to the South and donate our mills to the state for insane asylums."

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Breath-taking audacity to certain spectators who had followed the delegation hither, some of whom could not refrain from speculating whether it heralded the final scrapping of the machinery of the state; amusing to cynical metropolitan reporters, who grinned at one another as they prepared to take down the proceedings; evoking a fierce approval in the breasts of all rebels among whom was Janet.

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We had now but one of our starboard nine-pounders on its carriage, and word came from below that our battery of twelves was all but knocked to scrap iron, and their ports blown into one yawning gap.

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Well, it is better than scrapping, I'll admit, but I wish poets would make up something handier.

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"Not in here," in alarm; "you and I scrapping in Lorraine's drawing-room would cost a hundred pounds or so in valuables.

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Just like you might have noticed to-night, I noticed a knot of Chinks scrappin' on the ground all amongst the dust right in front of me.

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Yet here was Lord Gorell, after assenting to all the provisions for the optional censorship paragraph by paragraph, suddenly informing his colleagues that they had been wrong all through and that I had been right all through, and inviting them to scrap half their work and adopt my conclusion.

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"No," he replied, "I'll admit he ain't started scrappin' it yet, but I happen to know he's sold the rollin'- stock an' rails to the Freshwater Lumber Company, so I reckon they'll be scrappin' that railroad for him before long."

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I got a hunch right now they's goin' to be a heap of scrappin' before they get strung out.

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"I think I threw my shoulder out in the scrapping."

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"No, you don't, kiddie," he cried; "your manicured cat is not going into the ditch, if we have to scrap for it."

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Verbal outbreaks there were, and physical ones, too, a few times, which the nurse calmly and humiliatingly credited to her exercise-account and brought her more to eat, saying that scrapping was as healthful as work in making strength.

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But Terence Reardon is a crackajack chief engineer, and I want you to remember that the Blue Star Navigation Company needs him in its business quite as much as it needs Michael J. Murphy, and if you two get scrapping I'm not going to take the trouble to investigate and place the blame.

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So, you see, when all of them ghosts get together and begin scrapping over property rights, it's enough to scare the gizzard out of 'most anybody that happens to be in the neighbourhood.

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"Runnin' a bloomin' store an' scrappin' with the Chinks," was the reply.

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"Scrapping about something," remarked Tom carelessly.

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And if there should happen to be any scrapping, he'd be a mighty handy lad to have along with us.

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When he got up to a limb he yelled to me to come on up, as he wanted to give me a few last instructions about settling his estate, but I told him I was going to play I was Daniel in the lion's den, so I studied the bears for a while and let dad yell for the police, and then I picked up an armful of tomato cans and made a rush for the bears, and yelled and threw cans at them, and pretty soon every bear went off into the woods, growling and scrapping with each other, and I told dad to come down and I would save him at the risk of my life.

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"Say, we mustn't get scrapping," he said gaily.

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"Say, we mustn't get scrapping," he said gaily.

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"Say, we mustn't get scrapping," he said gaily.

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Ach, my," she shook her head and smiled to Amanda, "with so many children it makes sometimes when they all get talkin' and cuttin' up or scrappin'."

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Member of the Wolf Patrol, Boy Scouts of America, and just about ready to scrap for something to eat!"

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I guess you boys can work together without scrapping, can't you?"

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Following Kuwait's liberation, the UN Security Council (UNSC) required Iraq to scrap all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification inspections.

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Following Kuwait's liberation, the UN Security Council (UNSC) required Iraq to scrap all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification inspections.

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'... if Abiram and Dathan start scrapping, just hoof Abiram--it's his fault.'"

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"Well, now," said Alexia sweetly, "if you two boys are through scrapping, we'll begin on these notices."

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It shows you that things are rickety down Mexico way when such a bunch stops scrapping and gets together.

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"You'll have all th' scrappin' you want, if these fellows don't vamoose without firin' a shot!

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An' Sheeley an' the Drunk they got to scrappin' like I tole you.

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'Fighting your pack' is scrapping with your job--with what can't be helped--kind of.

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My bunch and me has come a hell of a number of miles on dis proposition, and dere ain't no need for us to fall scrappin' over it.

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'Have you been scrapping?' asked Mike.

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Summarising the causes, direct and indirect, which led to the final scrapping of an engine that had been mainly instrumental in manning the fleet for a hundred years and more, and without which, whatever its imperfections, that fleet could in all human probability never have been manned at all, we find them to be substantially these:-- _(a)_ The demoralising effects of long-continued, violent and indiscriminate pressing upon the Fleet; _(b)_ Its injurious and exasperating effects upon Trade; _(c)_ Its antagonising effect upon the Nation; and _(d)_ Its enormous cost as compared with recruiting by the good-will of the People.

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If they want to scrap, why not let them?"

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Livius seems to yearn in modern print for any honest employment, but especially scrapping of the ancient variety or secretarying.

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I used to scrap when I was a kid, though."

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I stood outside on the bench, looking through the wire netting over the door, so as not to be in the way when they started scrapping.

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What were they scrapping about?

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Well, we was both getting pretty hot under the collar about it when suddenly there's the blazes of a noise behind us, and there's the two kids scrapping all over the lot.

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I've a conscientious objection to scrapping with you.'

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Any moment they may start scrapping and chaw each other up, and then we'll simply sail in and knock what's left endways."

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It is considered good manufacturing practice, and not bad ethics, occasionally to change designs so that old models will become obsolete and new ones will have to be bought either because repair parts for the old cannot be had, or because the new model offers a new sales argument which can be used to persuade a consumer to scrap what he has and buy something new.

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Don't do any Good to the town, don't do any Good to yourselves, don't do any manner of Good, to have all the Tradesmen in the Place scrapping about the Pavement of an Afternoon.

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If you really feel that you want to scrap, for goodness sake do it where there's some room.

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I've always enjoyed scrapping rather.

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But her babies wuz real pretty and cunning, and she wuz so weak-minded she couldn't enjoy the thought that if our male statesmen got to scrappin' with some other nation's male law-makers and made another war, of havin' her grown-up babies face the cannons.

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She supposed he would be killed--all that genius lost like so much more of value that the world was scrapping to-day--and then it would all be quite gone-- Through the trees dropped the insistent sound of a baby's cry to its mother.

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"Stop scrapping, fellows," said Bob, jumping to his feet and shaking off some of the twigs and damp earth that stuck to him.

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"He'll only stir up Morrison's infernal scrapping spirit by laying down the law," objected Blanchard, sourly.

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Every year millions of dollars are wasted in American cities from the scrapping of buildings in "blighted" districts.

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FOOTNOTES: [V] Mr. Walkley reports that he has heard a Cockney policeman, speaking of a street row, "There's been a little scrappin'."

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"Still I don't see why there should be any scrapping over the line in Quartz Creek Canyon."

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Look here, if you do get scrapping with anybody, don't forget all I've taught you.

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"Have you been scrapping?"

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To a woman like Florence, who had trained herself as tough as whalebone by years of scrapping with her father and occasional by-battles with aunts, it was as easy as killing rats with a stick.

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The scrapping of the Anti Ballistic Missile treaty, the expansion of NATO to Russia's borders, America's presence in central Asia and the Caucasus, Russia's "near abroad" - are traumatic reversals of fortune.

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You might pass by him two or three times without recognizing his eminence, and yet, at a scrapping matinee or swatting recital, he seems to hold his audiences at his own sweet will--also his antagonist.

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"We haven't got any business scrapping; we've got to pull together.

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The crowd examined him with frank curiosity, commenting on him as "the dude that's been scrappin' with Mike Murphy."

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"Dey begins to scrap good and hard in de dark.

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And fallers grab gun and drum and fife, And march to scrap vith dese British men.

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Bad as is overpugnacity, a scrapping boy is better than one who funks a fight, and I have no patience with the sentimentality that would here "pour out the child with the bath," but would have every healthy boy taught boxing at adolescence if not before.

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The long, hard fight against professionalism that brings in husky muckers, who by every rule of true courtesy and chivalry belong outside academic circles, scrapping and underhand advantages, is a sad comment on the character and spirit of these games, and eliminates the best of their educational advantages.

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He gen'relly minds his own business, but he ain't scared o' nothin'; an' to-day, ye see, he's been scrappin', so he's liable to be ugly."

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Suppose the submarine should thrust up a periscope for an instant--a cough of the torpedo tube and the _Vulcan_ would be blown to scrap iron.

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Him and the gang is a bad lot, yer Honor, a scrappin' an' hoppin' freights an' swipin' junk, an' one thing an' another."

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"We were all scrapping away as hard as we could one afternoon, and nearly a dozen of us got the knock, all at the same time.

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She wouldn't have condescended to scrap with her."

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The longest game of the younger league's season lasted nineteen innings, Washington defeating Philadelphia in that combat 5 to 4, and it was played late in September when the two teams were scrapping for second place.

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"There's no sense scrappin'," muttered Benny.

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Germany means scrapping, and look where our ships are, or ought to be."

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If you really feel that you want to scrap, for goodness' sake do it where there's some room.

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"Sweet Claudia Peckham: How she used to scrap with my little brothers when she came to visit us!

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"Ef I was goin' to scrap wid anybody," he said to Mr. Carstairs, "I'd as lief tie meself up wid dumb-bells as take to carry all this stuff on me.

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"I'm the Black Knight," said Hefty in a hoarse voice, "the Marquis de Newveal; and when it comes to scrappin' wid der perlice, I'm de best in der business."

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But before he could reach him Policeman McCluire, mindful of the insult put upon him by this stranger, sprang between them and said: "Here, now, no scrapping here; get out of this," and shoved Hefty back with his hand.

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"Wot was you scrappin' about?"

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"Now you know that was nothing to scrap about," she heard him say, "You're both full of fighting whisky, but a bunkhouse isn't any place to fight.

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The nave, though Norman at its heart, has been altered in a most interesting way to Perpendicular without scrapping the earlier work.

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It is to be hoped that the town will never be inveigled into scrapping this memorial, which for quaintness and unconscious humour is almost unsurpassed.

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And as a last example of the present hysterical disposition to scrap things before they have been fairly tried is the outcry against examinations, which has done so much to take the keenness off the edge of school work in the last few years.

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I arrived in Goa from the UK early in 1995, after scrapping a potentially lucrative yet un-inviting career in accountancy, originally no more than another faceless backpacker with meagre funds hoping to enjoy the chilled hazy life of a shack-wallah.

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Or again it is a Tommy learning to appreciate the heroism of a French peasant woman: 'Er bloke's out scrappin' with the rest, Pushin' a bay'net in Argonne; She wears 'is photo on 'er breast, "_Mon Jean_," she sez--the French for John.

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To-night Oates, captain in a smart cavalry regiment, has been 'scrapping' over chairs and tables with Debenham, a young Australian student.

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"We were in front of Tournai at the time, scrapping our way from house to house through Faubourg de Lille, the city's western suburb.

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