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Sentences starting with scraping

Scraping away the incrustation, we find that we are in the Tyrol, high hills on all sides, no snow in the valley, a bright morning, and the snow-peaks are soon rosy in the sunrise. [4]

Sentences ending with scraping

One of them particularly, the front-door, looked very badly, crusted, as it were, and as if it would be all the better for scraping. [6]
Berg and Vera could not repress their smiles of satisfaction at the sight of all this movement in their drawing room, at the sound of the disconnected talk, the rustling of dresses, and the bowing and scraping. [2]

More example sentences with the word scraping in them

There was a whiteness growing round the eyes, and eating up the warmth of the cheek; his admirably smooth brow was contracted into heavy wrinkles, and a foot shifted uneasily on the floor with a scraping sole. [11]
For more than two months Cauchon had been raking and scraping everywhere for any odds and ends of evidence or suspicion or conjecture that might be usable against Joan, and carefully suppressing all evidence that came to hand in her favor. [5]
In 1873 Mark Twain led the van of the debunkers, scraping the gilt off the lily in the Gilded Age. [5]
In Blethisa the transverse ridges on the furrowed border of the abdominal segment do not, as far as I could judge, come into play in scraping the rasps on the elytra. [1]
And they wished to know if I could spin Mr. Brooks, who was scraping his way from table to table. [9]
All this time there had been a muffled hum of conversation, and rustling of robes and scraping of feet on the floor, a combination of dull noises which filled all the place. [5]
Four minutes are then to be devoted to scraping the powder into a heap, and the second third of the hundred grains of sugar of milk to be added. [3]
Presently, out on the bay they could hear the young ice break and come scraping up the shore. [11]
That night at ten o'clock the band was scraping away in the deserted parlor, with not another person in attendance, without a single listener. [4]
I heard his sword scraping out of the scabbard, and drew mine, stepping back to distance at the same instant. [9]
If we cannot succeed any way in scraping together the money for my dress, we can still--" "Well? [10]
It was the stern-wheeled tub Amenhotep, which churned her way up and down the Nile, scraping over sand banks, butting the shores with gaiety embarrassing--for it was the time of cholera, just before the annual rise of the Nile. [11]
There was a sound of tramping and scraping outside, and a crowd came solemnly in, with heads uncovered, and laid the two drowned bodies on the bed. [5]
Kissing was a sign of peace, and was not at all like taking hold of hands and skipping about to the scraping of a wicked fiddle. [4]
Immediately followed a scraping of other chairs. [9]
There warn't no other sound but the scraping of the feet on the floor and blowing noses--because people always blows them more at a funeral than they do at other places except church. [5]
The captain looked on, during a silent half-minute, then took the wheel himself, and crowded the boat in, till she went scraping along within a hand-breadth of the ships. [5]
Imagine a file of elephants marching through such a crevice of a street and scraping the paint off both sides of it with their hides. [5]
Then followed scraping of claws and pattering of feet; and out of the gray gloom below him swiftly climbed the dogs to reach his side and pass beyond. [13]
A band of musicians on the balcony of the Swannanoa were scraping and tooting and twanging with a hired air, and on the opposite balcony of the Eagle a rival band echoed and redoubled the perfunctory joyousness. [4]
Then there came more scraping of chairs, all the company talking excitedly at once. [9]
Instantly there came loud words and the scraping of chairs within the room, and a woman's scream. [9]
Jack took one look and then dashed into the woods, scraping off his rider's hat but did not succeed in getting rid of his burden or knocking down any trees. [4]
Tea was already in progress on the porch, and if a hush in the conversation and the scraping of chairs is any sign of a sensation, this happened when our heroine appeared in the doorway. [9]
And one night I awoke with a start, and lay for a while listening until I heard something like a splash, and the scraping of the bottom-boards of a boat. [9]
But then, again, he had not heard a sound; perhaps that was because his foot was scraping the floor at the moment the light went out. [11]
Mr. Bixby made for the shore and soon was scraping it, just the same as if it had been daylight. [5]
I was so delighted..." came the sounds of animated feminine voices, interrupting one another and mingling with the rustling of dresses and the scraping of chairs. [2]
The scraping of chairs within alarmed her, and she stood ready to fly. [9]
Then we heard benches scraping on the floor, and the congregation began to file out. [9]
This leviathan had been prowling down bends which were but a third as long as itself, and scraping between banks where it had only two feet of space to spare on each side. [5]
Their chairs made a scraping noise as the gentlemen who had conferred rose with apparent relief, and began walking up and down, arm in arm, to stretch their legs and converse in couples. [2]
I lay in a clean bunk in a fair-sized and sun-washed cabin, and I heard the scraping of ropes and the tramp of feet on the deck above my head. [9]

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