The 541 occurrences of scrap
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If looks was everythin' I guess you an' me 'ud be scrappin' over Oolik Lomen or Margaret Winston, that new fox-hound Russ Downing just got from Kentucky.
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"We, who were driving the Racing Teams, had put our leaders to bed in the few bunks there were; for we could not afford to take any chances of our leaders scrapping in such close quarters, and possibly being put out of commission.
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Just knowing how to scrap isn't much good.
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It's nice to know how to scrap if scrapping has to be done, but it shouldn't ever have to be done,--between nations, anyway."
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"Now, Gus, cut out the scrapping.
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All the men were Scrapping to see who would be Next to sit in the Hammock with her.
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You want me to scrap that three-inch steel door, do you?"
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There will be much noise and some irregular scrapping for days, but the tin lid has been placed upon the grand attack.
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In plotting and scrapping they were abreast of the worst and took the consequences.
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"Now look," said Kettle, "I'm not going to scrap with you here, and I don't want to break up this happy home with domestic unpleasantness; but if you don't hand me over that £50, I shall ask your good lady to get it for me."
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They have been scrapping for fifteen minutes about chances of the Pirates and the Cubs.
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They may have eased the mind of poor Lo, around whose dying bunk we hear the relatives scrapping over his residuary estate of rusty rifle, much-mended fishing-net, and three gaunt dogs.
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"So I learned from two Companies of an English regiment which were there, acting as reserve to a Brigade which was scrapping somewhere in the direction of Hulluch; so I realised that we had worked too far to the right.
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I can't recommend scrapping a plane merely because it has the reputation of being unlucky.
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"Whee, if all that scrapping was half-way real!" burst out the admiring Billy; "the only thing I wonder at is how any of those fellows manage to come out of the fight with whole heads or limbs.
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The tree-dwellers and the cave-dwellers and the tent-dwellers spent most of their time scrapping.
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'When we came round the bend we saw you scrapping with that outlaw from Trebizond.
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"I never heard," mentioned Broncho, "about any of Dibble's ways of mixin' scrappin' and cipherin'."
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"Well, I haven't been usually regarded as a jack-rabbit when it comes to scrapping; but I don't want a posse smoking me out when I'm in your _jacal_.
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The recently built Southern mills have been equipped with all the latest machinery, while many of the older Northern mills have not felt able to scrap machines which, though antiquated, were still running well.
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If any of the more quarrelsome folk on the continent get scrapping, well, my conception of my duty is to keep out of it."
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The unions are hungry and scrapping among themselves, and the men want to go back to work.
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For the last few days I have been itching to scrap with her, and I find she minds me about as much as the man in the moon.
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Quit your scrapping!"
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And the scientific and practical men, who would like to scrap her, have sometimes seemed to me right.
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"Think of old Penny Durkin scrapping like that!" he said.
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You see, though, don't you, why I didn't want to scrap with Dreer?
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"There's a couple o' blue-tailed birds scrappin' in a palm tree, sir," he submitted hopefully.
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"We can't afford--India can't afford--to scrap a single really useful man."
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"It's our day for scrapping," said "Stump."
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I could not sleep any, there was such a cursing and drinking and scrapping.
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"Have you and Tim been scrapping?" the captain asked.
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"I suppose he'll start scrapping with everybody all over again," he muttered.
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Carlisle had reached a point where she longed to shake her aunt, when Hen, who had been "scrapping up" with Looloo, came in, putting an end to the futile talk.
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In the intervals of pressing down the unlit tobacco in his pipe with an oscillating thumb, he alternately pokes his king out of the corner and pulls it back again; while his transparent impulse is to scrap the board, wreck the ante-room and run amok.
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"You're really going to scrap those fifteen chapters?"
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"No scrapping!
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"What has the scrapping been about, Peter?" asked Inez.
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But just as Britain declared war because the invasion of Belgium brought to a head all the vague grounds for opposition to German policy; and just as America broke off relations because the scrapping of undertaking after undertaking regarding the sea-war made it imperative for her to act, so did China choose the right moment to enunciate the doctrine of her independence by voicing her determination to hold to the whole corpus of international sanctions on which her independence finally rests.
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Although the nobs themselves do it when pushed to it, scrapping is not respectable.
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'In ivry branch iv life,' says he, 'we leap fr'm scrap to scrap,' he says.
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We'll can this scrapping stuff.
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"We'd be fools to scrap.
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"He asked leave to come along as a laborer, and when I found that he knew more about train-scrapping than I did, I promoted him."
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In the other palace it appeared that the great American scrapping process was even yet far from complete.
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Now you boys will have to scrap it out among yourselves, and may the best one win."
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"Whar yo' all ben scrappin' in dis yar war, boss?" meekly inquired the colored soldier.
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And I believe if we scrapped all the machinery and got new--" "When you've mastered the present machinery, it will be time to talk about scrapping it," answered Daniel.
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We hold our own from year to year, and I've reached a conviction that my policy of ruthlessly scrapping machinery the moment it's even on the down grade, is the only sound principle and pays in the long run.
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In all the miscellaneous scrapping which we watch to-day is there one strong man with a sense of direction?
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'It's a good thing, anyway,' he went on, with the first hint of a twinkle in his regard, 'for a youngster like you to have to scrap things out after the old fashion.
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"An' when a bloke's fought for a land an' gets laid on the shelf It pains 'im to come 'ome an' find it scrappin' with itself; An' scrappin' all for nothin', or for things that look so small-- To us, 'oo've been in bigger things, they don't seem reel at all.
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Wealth is unjustly divided; great corporations seize public utilities and exploit them for private gain; enormous sums are squandered on unnecessary and dangerous battle-ships and soldiers; in building a single State Capitol, $3,500,000 was recently stolen, not only wasting public wealth, but corrupting public morals; in some parts of our land little children still drive the wheels of industry; and it is everywhere cheaper to scrap-heap men and women than machines; most of our cities are ugly and badly ruled; drunkenness, gambling and prostitution are common; life is not always secure from lawless attack; and the machinery of justice is clogged and moves slowly.
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It was over ten years before he found the answer to the problem--ten years of making experimental machines and scrapping them, of filing useless patents, of doubt and persistence.
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The parties, it appeared, was givin' a Dutch lunch to a gang of their friends at 5 A.M. of a morning, and that was bad enough in a place that was well kep' up; but in the sicin' place they got scrappin', which had swiftly resulted in an ambulance call for the host and lessee, and the patrol wagon for his friends that were not in much better shape thimselves, praise Gawd.
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The accompanying illustration represents a combined biscuit cutting, scrapping, and panning machine, specially designed for running at high speeds, and so arranged as to allow of the relative movements of the various parts being adjusted while in motion.
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They got to scrapping and I ran 'em both up before Gully, the J. P. here.
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"Say, that sure was a hell of a trick of his--using Windy's horse--while the two of them were scrapping--trying to frame it up on him!"
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"There was a banana peel where my heel happened to be--and I wasn't half scrapping.
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"Neighbors often heard 'em scrappin' a lot, and this afternoon they went at it again hot and heavy.
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For, when inventions threaten to render useless already existing patents, necessitating the scrapping of millions of dollars' worth of machinery, vested interests must be protected.
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It resolved itself into this: there were no dog-meals on that journey; but only daily dog-fights--snarling, scrapping, blood and hatred-letting scrimmages for grub; disgraceful episodes, in themselves sufficient to shut out any hope of discipline in the team.
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They were more numerous, but we were better placed, so we went on scrapping and crawling around to get a shot at them.
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The idea was abhorrent to Scrap.
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He turned from her to Scrap again, and forgot Rose Arbuthnot's existence.
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Lotty bent close to Scrap's ear, and whispered.
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There's nothin' in this world tickles her like a chile actin' naughty, 'ceptin' it's two chillen scrappin'.
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Trucks had been lifted bodily by the concussion, and could be seen in adjacent fields; many of the sheds had been half blown away, leaving rows of live shells lying snugly in neat piles, but as there was no knowing when they might explode it was decided to scrap the whole dump when the fires had subsided.
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"I don't see any sense in scrapping about that any more.
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New York Greets Her Own--Ecstatic Day for Old 15th--Whites and Blacks do Honors--A Monster Demonstration--Many Dignitaries Review Troops--Parade of Martial Pomp--Cheers, Music, Flowers and Feasting--"Hayward's Scrapping Babies"--Officers Share Glory--Then Came Henry Johnson--Similar Scenes Elsewhere Chapter XXX.
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But I was jes' lettin' you know there's liable to be some tall scrappin' around this post tonight'.
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HOMECOMING HEROES NEW YORK GREETS HER OWN--ECSTATIC DAY FOR OLD 15TH--WHITES AND BLACKS DO HONORS--A MONSTER DEMONSTRATION--MANY DIGNITARIES REVIEW TROOPS--PARADE OF MARTIAL POMP--CHEERS, MUSIC, FLOWERS AND FEASTING--"HAYWARD'S SCRAPPING BABIES"--OFFICERS SHARE GLORY--THEN CAME HENRY JOHNSON--SIMILAR SCENES ELSEWHERE.
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But Col. Bill, when he speaks of them uses the words 'those scrapping babies of mine,' and they like that best of all.
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When her tourists assembled in front of her machine, which was a real car, at least the front half of one, an old relic which the garage had just about decided to scrap, its latter half hidden behind a dark curtain, Dottie led them back of the curtain where the sights of Ashton were hidden.
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What was needed right then was a unifier--somebody who could take command and coax or bully the scrapping factions into line.
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It put me in mind of a couple of old women scrapping over a back-yard fence, and as we say back home, "all fussed up and no place to go."
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But you cut that out, and don't you say that out loud again, or you and me'll be having to scrap the whole outfit!"
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Grenfell is a scrapper when it is necessary, and when he has to scrap he goes at it with the best that's in him.
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The 15th was on our left, the 13th was holding the hill above Béthancourt, and the 14th was scrapping away on the right.
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Says Cole "But, 'struth, you must 'ave seen A fearful swag of scrappin'."
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Afore a push the three Got scrappin', vague 'n' foolish, which the cripple boy should be.
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Instead those claws snapped again, this time scrapping across the top of Dane's foot, leaving a furrow in material the keenest of knives could not have scored.
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Though he had never known a real home or family, scrapping into the Pool from one of the children's Depots.
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"I recollect bein' in the water, an' the pilgrim was there, an' we were scrappin' an' he punched me in the jaw.
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But what we was scrappin' about, an' where he is now, an' how I come here, is somethin' I don't savvy."
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Whatever was to be done had to be accomplished in the fewest seconds, or the little submarine craft was bound to be ground to scrap iron under the great bows of the steamship.
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He went to your mountains to scrap with microbes--and he had leisure to discover what a microbe he was himself."
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"On tower Number 10 of the New York Central, scrapping for my life," Quest answered grimly.
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All agreed to scrap a certain number of ships, to bring their tonnage down to a certain figure, and by doing that relatively they were left in the same position as before, with this advantage--that they at once obtained an enormous reduction in expenditure on armaments.
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You'd both have got to scrapping and screaming at each other and nothing told."
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My Lord!" striding down the hall again, "you fools stop scrapping with that termagant and put her out, put her out, I say."
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When in a big attack you are of course scrapping all the time.
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"There's a time for nursin' tender engines and a time for scrappin' them.
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"No scrappin' Sunday.
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"Jiminy Crickets!" exclaimed King; "can't this Club get along without scrapping?
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Cross-bows, stirrups, spurs, horse-furniture, reduced to scrap-iron, furnished axes, hammers, saws and nails.
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The sulphuric acid treatment, however, is confined mainly to scrap containing cotton fiber.
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), which effort is necessarily defeated and incessantly renewed, and in the turmoil or "scrapping" between the germ and the solar forces, matter is gathered from the soil and from the air and built into the special form of a tree.