The 541 occurrences of scrap
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When devices came along that saved labour and increased production she refused to scrap the old to make way for the new.
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I did not want our young people to know of the petty bickering and scrapping going on among the elders in the town.
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I'm no kitten when it comes to scrapping; but I haven't any desire to mix things with him."
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He used to wade through a ton of solid, scrapping, plunging flesh.
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"Gentlemen and brothers of the syndicate," he began, "I'm satisfied that the back-bitin', the scrappin', the petty jealousies and general cussedness that characterized our lives on the old _Maggie_ will not be duplicated on the _Maggie II_.
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They get scrappin' among themselves, and one eats the other up."
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This was "scrapping" to the Australians' taste.
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The American proposal included the scrapping of the _Mutsu_, the pride of the Japanese navy, which had been launched but not quite completed.
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The actual scrapping of millions of dollars' worth of ships in commission or in process of construction gives the world an object lesson such as it has never had before.
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As the rest of you happen to know I've tried about every other way to make the coward fight, and he only gives me one of his smiles, and says he's opposed to scrapping.
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It was one thing to scrap a little and quite another to be entirely apart.
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And from then onwards the relations between Gordon and the scrum half were those of a scrapping match.
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To me at their first call he said: "What will you do with such a man--you, who have gone scrapping through life, browbeating gentle souls like myself into giving you your own way on every point, and letting you ride rough-shod over us without a protest?
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Conditions right now are damnable; you've got to scrap all along the line for what's yours.
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At Tuskegee there is no place for those who lie in wait for insults and regard scrapping as a fine art.
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"Anyway, there's no use of our scrapping about it 'cause I don't suppose we'll find her.
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I seen him myself when he cum to our alley last----" "What's youse kids a-scrappin' fur?" broke in a strange voice.
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"And the neches, here, figger to scrap to hold it.
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We're going up there with an outfit that knows all about scrapping, and something about gold.
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"I don't reckon the Yukon's worrying to scrap.
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To-day even the Premier begins to see that we were right, that the interests of this country demand the scrapping of _the whole bad business of 'making Germany pay_.
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"I found three rascals," said Farrell easily, "scrapping for the honour of delivering a suit-case at Engelbaum's hotel--a suit-case that I recognised.
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Two fellows who were messmates were scrapping about a question of gravy.
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"The two old-timers are scrappin'."
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It seems a pity that two such clever men should waste so much time in scrapping over these scientific things, which don't seem to matter half a cent, anyhow."
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"Ward, will you be good now and stop scrapping or shall we tie you?" asked Dale.
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"Been scrappin' with Graves!
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On the other hand, Tommy and Bob were forever scrapping.
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WHAT WE WON Was it for this, I want to know, We saw our boys to Flanders go; For this that Belgium suffered so, That France withstood the ruthless foe, And said "No further shalt thou go," That Serbia was plunged in woe, And women wept along the Po; That Poles were herded to and fro, And Anzacs died at Gallipo; That Britain let her plans all go, Laid bare her breast, and took the blow, And held the seas 'neath sun and snow Danger above and death below; That Uncle Sam, though rather slow To scrap the doctrine of Monroe, Got busy at the final show?
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Accordingly, when I put in my services, I was told that the brigade would march before dawn, and that some scrapping was anticipated.
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Long before his examination had finished, Derrick had come to the conclusion that it would be necessary to scrap the existing machinery and set up new in its place; and he was anxious to consult Donna Elvira; but though he learnt that she had sustained no injury from the accident in the salon, she did not make her appearance until three days had elapsed.
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We've always had the open shop, as you know, and it was all right so long as we were too small for the unions to scrap about.
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"You're bound to scrap, eh?" he grinned.
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But, believe me, little person, if I thought that any great good or happiness would result from my being elsewhere, from scrapping with my fellows in the world crush, I'd be there with both feet.
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Looking into the rear cavern where Milly had thrust all the furniture she had not the courage to scrap, he observed slyly,--"What'll your grandmother say?"
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"Well, when it comes to the Allies scrapping between themselves about League of Nations and Freedoms of Seas, I am content that they should be allowed a liberal discount on what they say for what they mean, Mawruss, but when it comes to Germany," he concluded, "she's got to pay, and pay in full, net cash, and then some."
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"Well, I'll tell you," Abe said, "it is always the case that when the creditors begin to scrap among themselves, y'understand, the fraudulent bankrupt stands a good chance to get away with the concealed assets, ain't it, and in particular in this case where there is so many liberal-minded people around which don't want to be too hard on Germany, _anyway_."
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As secretary there was nothing for him to do except to scrap-book the daily reports of the great trial of the Tichborne Claimant for perjury.
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"Elmer Cyrus Buck, 409 Lexington Avenue, N. Y. C. 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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And I ain't so sure a soldier-- A shootin', scrappin' soldier, That's livin' close to dyin'-- Ain't got the best of us!
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Now, instead of scrapping, we ought to be glad to join hands.
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For nearly five years he was to wrestle with the subject, trying in vain to give it adequate shape and form, and then to scrap the labours of years and to start again on a new plan; but in the end he was to win another signal victory.
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The purchasing of the best material, the succession of costly experiments, the 'scrapping' of all imperfect work, meant a heavy drain on the capital.
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There had been continual scrapping.
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The fourth company would have got it also, but by the luck of the war it was out of all the scrapping.
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Life to them is one continuous round of wrestling, scrapping, knocking over anything that's loose, and tearing up anything in reach.
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The Government will naturally be loth to scrap a Department which actually earns its keep.
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Is it for a straight scrapping with Boers, or is it to meander about as a town garrison?'
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'If you join me you shall be "scrapping" in a week from to-day.'
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We continued this hole and corner fighting, and on September 3rd, C Company occupied "Hens Post," Windy Corner, and "Edward's Post," after some sharp scrapping, taking one wounded prisoner, whilst B Company occupied "Dogs Post" without opposition.
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"You don't anticipate any scrapping, or anything of that sort?"
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His idea was that instead of scrappin' this big army organization that it had cost so much to build up we ought to save it so it would be ready in case another country--Japan maybe--started anything.
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Look here; we'll have to have another one now, or we'll be scrapping to see who gets this!"
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Roy, who didn't believe in humouring folks, tried to twit Steve on his "scrapping" with Lacey, but Steve flared up on the instant and Roy was glad to change the subject.
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"That's so, I did hear that you and he were scrapping one day.
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"They always seem to be scrapping with each other now, and the only thing they can agree on is that you and your father ought to stop whatever you're doing, right away.
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They still prowled about their captive, scrapping at the sand about the shell casing.
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I'll be perfectly frank, and say that I fear this young nation may be induced to scrap experience for experiment--which above all times would at present be the inauguration of an economic system for which the nation is not prepared, for which it has not been educated, and because of which it cannot afford to take for its education the bitter experience which too often succeeds glittering experiment.
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He contemplates with profound elation the scrapping of our present system built by experience, and the setting up of another which makes theories a substitute.
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--but pretty soon they got to scrapping so that I couldn't help but hear, and I felt sort of embarrassed about interrupting."
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They've started scrappin' the fleet, an' begun on us."
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Dere used to be some scrappin' over de pot liquor dat was brought out in big pans.
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I seen him myself when he cum to our alley last--" "What's youse kids a-scrappin' fur?" broke in a strange voice.
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Certain modifications in details were made, but the hasty and unwise enthusiasm of Lloyd George for scrapping entire sections was not approved.
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"We didn't come here to scrap, but everyone of us can take his own part if it is necessary."
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Bob Collingwood waded into the midst of the struggling mass of human beings, scattering them with his powerful arms, and crying: "Here, stop this senseless scrapping!
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"As it is, we are squalidly scrapping over the enforcement of the colonial laws of those empires whose destinies we might possibly have determined a hundred years ago."
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The 9th Corps has got ashore; some scrapping along the beaches but no wire or hold-up like there was at Sedd-el-Bahr: that in itself is worth fifty million golden sovereigns.
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The chemists are still scrapping about it.
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They're scrapping like cat and dog.
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"Won't you two _please_ stop scrapping?" begged Margaret Wayne in a tired voice.
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"Cut out this scrapping and get down to business, you two," finally ordered Leslie in her roughest tones.
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"I said cut out the scrapping, didn't I?
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"Don't git to scrappin' amongst ourselves.
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"I've known cats to make sounds like a baby crying, when they were facing each other, and ready to scrap," he told himself.
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At first she was naturally called the Flying Dutchman, and was most useful; but here we have learned when a better instrument is available that it is the truest economy to scrap-heap the old.
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"I don't believe in fighting, but this is about my time to scrap.
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Even the beautiful and expensive repeating rifles and automatic pistols I had given each man had been reduced to scrap-iron.
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For instance, I could tell a fellow about when he was a little boy there was a little girl in a red dress with blond pigtails who used to scrap with him and tattle things about him to her mother.
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Are they supposed to be scrapping like the gods in Homer English Saint George against German Saint Michael and so on?'
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Perhaps the dragon he makes war on, war to the death, is neither England nor Germany, but just the scrapping between them.'
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My brother and I used to scrap over who should scratch and rub her feet.
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"It's something they both wanted to tell me, St. John, but they stopped to scrap about it, and I hain't heard what it is yet."
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"It's always scrapping.
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Papa had a _nawful_ time in his last church 'cause they picked on him to scrap about.
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And in this short time she was reduced to scrap-iron by the concentrated fire of the _Warsaw_, _Riga_, and _Kharkov_.
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"I'd guess a whole planet full of 'em that laid low when the rest were scrapping with the Force.
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* * * * * "These Huks," observed Sergeant Madden as the squad ship descended to the Huk planet's surface, "they must've had a share in the scrapping eighty years ago.
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It developed during their scrapping--Champney had often to scrap with Alice to keep on a level with her immaturity--that there was another rival for the cotillon, another, a younger man, who desired to give her the special flowers for this special affair.
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"No scrapping allowed here.
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"Oh, we weren't scrapping," Peace hastily assured him, "but I'd have won if Cherry hadn't got her feet mixed up with mine, so's Allee got in ahead.
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Just s'posing everyone knew what everyone else was thinking, wouldn't some folks be scrapping all the time?
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Come out here, Malvaney; we'll just start the scrapping while I tell you.
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"It seems that away back in the times when the Spaniards were scrapping with the Indians for a foothold, an old grandee named Del Reyes had staked out a claim hereabout.
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To come here, get into a crazy right, have our drive melt to scrap, get crazily welded to a Plumie ship, and then for both of us to fry together!
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They descended upon the jury box, grunting and scrapping with each other for the first-row seats, and the judge took his place with obvious satisfaction behind the heavy wooden bench.
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Scrapping the Map in Brazil.
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Sometimes he moved his own outfits from one region to another, but often he merely shut the door on an old plant not worth moving and let it return to scrap-iron while the print shop tumbled down with it.