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Example sentences for "scarum"

Lexicographically close words:
scarse; scarselie; scarsely; scarsitie; scart; scarves; scary; scat; scathe; scathed
  1. To this end have tended all those most harum-scarum notes, written during the last six years, which I have here collected and tried to group according to the particular art, or the particular portion of an art, to which they referred.

  2. To Jo alone did the shy child tell her thoughts; and over her big, harum-scarum sister, Beth unconsciously exercised more influence than any one in the family.

  3. Not much like that other harum-scarum I brought up.

  4. It might even be suspected that she liked the harum-scarum best after all.

  5. I saw Mireli Heron’s son, a jovial, harum-scarum fellow who has found a permanent home in Hull.

  6. Next to this house was a post office, not an ordinary post office where stamps could be bought, but a harum-scarum place, full of postmen running up and down and emptying bags and hammering on letters and talking very loudly and very quickly.

  7. Then a very desperate idea occurred to her, so desperate that only a harum-scarum like Diana would have thought of it.

  8. Raymonde's harum-scarum mind was for once really filled with a wish to help.

  9. Her wild, harum-scarum spirits welcomed the element of possible danger, and the imminence of discovery added an extra spice.

  10. She was not so clever, so daring, or so altogether reckless, but she came in a very good second-best in most of the harum-scarum escapades.

  11. Thanks to the alarm itself, which the harum-scarum articles excited, prudence will once more gain control of our foreign affairs.

  12. I then asked Hartington if he knew anything about it; and Lord Wolseley ultimately discovered that Randolph Churchill had confused the Congo with the Nile, an amusing example of his harum-scarum recklessness.

  13. If I forget everything else I shall never forget you and those villains, Harum and Scarum and their snakes.

  14. Yes," I said impatiently, "it's Harum and Scarum as you call them.

  15. Smithers is too much of a convivial harum-scarum fellow to be of much use in the way of giving sound advice.

  16. I can't afford to do business at cost just to please a lot of harum-scarum boys, who want to spend days loafing in the woods when they ought to be earning an honest penny at work.

  17. I suspect that this Hank ye're tillin' me about must be a wild harum-scarum broth av a boy thin?

  18. Even such a harum-scarum creature will see that it is wiser for her to go back to Miss Marr in our company than with young Armitage," Mrs. Sibley had confidently declared.

  19. She will hurry out, naturally, to get home before dark, and I am sure even such a harum-scarum creature will see that it is wiser for her to go back to Miss Marr's in our company than with young Armitage.

  20. What guardian spirit protects the bold and mischievous has never yet been discovered; but it is a well authenticated fact that wild, harum scarum fellows like Terrence Malone seldom come to grief or disaster.

  21. He was a bold, harum scarum fellow, as liable to pull the beard of a king, as to kick a pauper.

  22. To Jo alone did the shy child tell her thoughts, and over her big harum-scarum sister Beth unconsciously exercised more influence than anyone in the family.

  23. Come down and give me your word that this harum-scarum boy of mine hasn't done anything ungrateful or impertinent.

  24. Upon my word, when I see one of those harum-scarum girls, I always want to say with our friend Cock Robin.

  25. Pomfret had always been a harum-scarum sort of young fellow, accustomed to follow erratic and injudicious impulses, not absolutely devoid of brains of a certain order, but of imperfect and ill-balanced mentality.

  26. My father was a harum-scarum sort of person, as I told you last time you were here, hard-riding and hard-drinking.

  27. George is at sea, and, from the accounts of his adventures, the ringleader of a lively crew of harum-scarum middies, whose escapades outrival even the pranks which he and Dick played long ago.

  28. She's just the wildest harum-scarum that ever breathed, and her father positively delights in it.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scarum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.