Three carriers of the Kaga class, a dozen troop ships, and scads and scads of cruisers, destroyers, and supply vessels.
The days of scads and tates and scrambling for seaweed have now been long past; but prosperity does not seem to have spoilt the islanders any more than adversity.
He chalked up on the pier:-- "Scads and taties all the week And a green veil on Sundays.
To this day there are islanders who say they would not exchange a good conger-pie for a round of beef, and who regret that scads are no longer caught.
In the old days the people lived almost entirely on scads (i.
Scads and taties all the week And conger-pie on Sundays.
Henry told Obejoyful how his grandfather was hung; and Obejoyful told Henry how he loved a girl in Ohio, named Oleander McTodd, and how he was going to send for her, and marry her as soon as he could raise the scads to bring her west.
You could also write religious articles for the Western press, and blow in a good many scads that way.
I spent scads of money when first I came to Hamilton.
I reckon ef he kin possibly raise the scads to pay the tax on his investment next yeer he 'll do all the Lord expects.
He jist shoved them scads what hed been given him careless-like down inter his coat pocket, an' faced Mister Manager.
Now, scads are of small value, and yet Dick got them all, and Hugh all the mackerel.
The Yankee feller has more scads than Ben, an' has bought an estate in New York City which he lays at her feet as an inducement.
She seems to want to lay up scads for some reason or other; maybe it is to try to git back the cash she has spent on her odd notion.
You can take your choice in the great battle of life, whether you will bristle up and win a deathless name, and owe almost everybody, or be satisfied with scads and mediocrity.
When the reading public begins to devour it, and the scads come rolling in, you can deduct enough for to pay your expenses of printing and pressing, and send me the balance by postoffice money order.
