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Sentences ending with scraps

I tried to break a handsome chunk from a huge piece of my darling Monitor which we brought from the croppings yesterday, but it all splintered up, and I send you the scraps. [5]
No, he organises, and builds them--out of scraps. [11]

Sentences containing scraps two or more times

I know one who has to paste all sorts of little scraps from the newspapers into a scrapbook--sometimes as many as eight or ten scraps a day. [5]

More example sentences with the word scraps in them

This last matches with the idea that Lee has retained his cavalry, sending Imboden and perhaps other scraps to join Ewell. [7]
One is struck with the fact that a great number of fragments lie about his poetical workshop: poems begun and never finished; scraps of poems, chips of poems, paving the floor with intentions never carried out. [6]
But before she went she contrived to place near his elbow one of the scraps of paper on which Pauline had drawn his face, with that of Manette. [11]
The whole ground was strewed with fragments of clothing, haversacks, canteens, cap-boxes, bullets, cartridge-boxes, cartridges, scraps of paper, portions of bread and meat. [6]
They always save up all the old scraps of printed rubbish you throw on the floor, and stack them up carefully on the table, and start the fire with your valuable manuscripts. [5]
My idea is this: Make a scrap-book with leaves veneered or coated with gum-stickum of some kind; wet the page with sponge, brush, rag or tongue, and dab on your scraps like postage stamps. [5]
The perusal of this smattering of everything, these scraps of information and snatches of literature, this infinite variety and medley, in which no subject is adequately treated, is distracting and debilitating to the mind. [4]
One meets with these venerable scraps at every turn, especially in the neighboring Mosque el Aksa, into whose inner walls a very large number of them are carefully built for preservation. [5]
Mr. Tooting copied them; and some, which would have gone into the waste-basket, he laid carefully aside, bearing in mind the adage about little scraps of paper--if there is one. [9]
Sometimes, I make them of scraps of oak, that turn up here and there; sometimes of bits of coffins which the vaults have long preserved. [12]
Mucilage sucks out the ink and makes the scraps unreadable; 4. [5]
Hence it comes that, in the scraps of paper covered with her pencil writing which I have seen, there will occasionally be a sentence scored out, but seldom, if ever, a word or an expression. [14]
Mr. Peters, and talked with him a great deal: told him yarns, gave him toothsome scraps of personal history, and wove a glittering streak of profanity through his garrulous fabric that was refreshing to a spirit weary of the dull neutralities of undecorated speech. [5]
I will enclose some scraps from my Autobiography--scraps about General Grant--they may be of some trifle of use, and they may not--they at least verify known traits of his character. [5]
There was another pine table in the room and another afflicted chair, and both were half buried under newspapers and scraps and sheets of manuscript. [5]
To daub and paste 3 or 4 pages of scraps is tedious, slow, nasty and tiresome. [5]
Tunics, breeches, and overcoats are mended by tailors; rusty camp cookers are retinned, and in the foundries the precious scraps of cast iron are melted into braziers to keep Tommy in the trenches warm. [9]
Do they come out of school with the habit of continuous reading, of reading books, or only of picking up scraps in the newspapers, as they might snatch a hasty meal at a lunch-counter? [4]
Afterward followed scraps of the years at Gordon's Pride, and on top of them the talk with McAndrews. [9]
There were scraps of newspaper on the ground, and among them was an empty envelope. [11]
Such seductive scraps of meat, which would make a breakfast nourishing as well as relishing, possibly even what called itself a dinner, blushing to see themselves labelled threepence or fourpence! [6]
No apology is needed for following the learned custom of placing attractive scraps of literature at the heads of our chapters. [5]
I tried to manufacture a suit for my Berlin Jack-in-the-box from the scraps that fell from the dressmaker's table. [10]
Consequently, they get little except scraps and bits; no subject is considered thoroughly or exhaustively; and they are furnished with not much more than the small change for superficial conversation. [4]
My billiard table is stacked up with books relating to the Sandwich Islands: the walls axe upholstered with scraps of paper penciled with notes drawn from them. [5]
Nell, busily plying her needle, repaired the tattered window-hangings, drew together the rents that time had worn in the threadbare scraps of carpet, and made them whole and decent. [12]
It had cost her a good deal of thought and care, apparently, for her waste-basket was full of scraps of paper, which looked as if they were the remains of a manuscript like that at which she was at work. [6]
Then she ate greedily the food which Soada should have eaten; snatching scraps of consolation in return for the sympathy she gave. [11]
The gleams of festal splendor seemed interwoven with the laborious bustle on the quay like scraps of gold thread in a dull work-a-day garment. [10]
Please put the enclosed scraps in the drawer and I will scrap-book them. [5]
Might not such a corps be constituted from the cavalry of Sigel's and Slocum's corps, with scraps we could pick up here and there? [7]

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