You do well to go to her, and comfort her; commend me to her, and say Humphrey Ratcliffe has my freely-given permission to scour the country to find her lost boy.
She said she had nothing to do but to ring the dinner-bell, and out he would fly and scour the country-side for hours on end!
Nothing but flies and discomfort," declared the colonel roundly; and Peggy walked away towards the house, profoundly wishing that she could make her escape altogether, and scour the country until the dreaded hour was passed.
O royal, rich, To scour Faunus and his salt-proud bitch.
The only thing to do, then, was to scour the campus in all its nooks and crannies, pausing now and then to look and listen hard for any sign or sound of the captives.
A fine instrument toscour the country with, when one has a girl on one's arm.
She was thinking, perhaps, how easily Silvere abandoned her to go and scour the country-side.
Bands of insurgents would certainly scour the country and cut off all communications.
As the fleet, consisting of above 90 vessels, was scattered during the voyage, Don Juan put in at Baseen to wait for its reunion, and sent in the mean time Don Emanuel de Lima with a squadron to scour the coast, who took several vessels.
In laying the ship on shore to scour its bottom after the voyage from England, its back was broken, and the St. George became a total wreck.
The embargo on all European trade at Surat was maintained, while the Dutch, French, and English were directed to scour the seas and destroy the pirates.
French Ships scour the seas, and lay siege to Harfleur.
Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, whose father had been beheaded at Cirencester in the reign of Henry IV, with a squadron to scour the seas, and secure a free passage for the transports.
The scour upon the convex side of a meander causes the river to swing ever farther in that direction, and through invasion of the silted flood plain to migrate across it.
Although intrenched, river meanders are still competent to scour and so undermine the outer bank, and with favoring conditions they may by this process erode extended “bottoms” out of the plateau.
As is well known, there is under these conditions a prodigious scour upon the bottom which tends to dig a pit just above and below the dam—a scape colk—and carry the materials up to the surface below the pit.
So soon as diverted from its direct course, the current, by its inertia of motion, is thrown against the outer or convex side so as to scour or corrade that bank.
For several years his envoys scour the world in search of her; at last she is discovered in Brittany.
The cavalry will soonscour the fields from Black Rock to the bridge, and suffer no idle spectators.
So the match being made, the Duke sent out agents toscour the town in search of the best partner for him that they could find, and when found he was to be brought forward, irrespective of his circumstances or his station in life.
Animals are frequently lost in this way; and it is necessary to keep close watch over them, in the vicinity of the buffalo, in the midst of which they scour off to the plains, and are rarely retaken.
From San Diego, parties of the command were sent to scour the neighboring country, in order to bring in a sufficient number of horses to mount the men.
The men were ordered to take horse, and scourevery road and path and glen of the Odenwald.
Having sent off Washington and the two men to scour the district, he ran home, and dispatched telegrams to all the police inspectors in the county, telling them to look out for a little girl who had been kidnapped by tramps or gipsies.
His last sermon having been delivered, fairly given over to his hearers to be digested, the new one was not to be begun before Tuesday.
Six horses had he of that race, of which himself kept four, And gave the other two his son; and these are they that scour The field so bravely towards us, expert in charge and flight.
The shepherdess, who saw her ass scour off, told Roger that it was her cattle, and desired he might be kindly used, or else she would not stir her foot over the threshold.
Finding ourselves now posted securely, and having a place to retreat to on occasion, we ventured out in parties to scour the adjacent country.
The officers scattering in all directions, policemen, deputy sheriffs and private detectives, started out to scour the town.
Murphy to divide them into small squads and at once scour the town, arresting any group of three or more men they might find, no matter, militiamen or civilians.
James to choose three companies that were all right to scour the town and arrest every suspicious party.
Vinegar brought up the rear to wash the mouth, and for fear of the squinsy; also toasts to scour the grinders.
They sow no other seeds but the three sorts of windflowers, rue, and herbs that may make one break wind to the purpose; these scour them off carefully.
Scouts were sent out whose business it was to scour the forest many miles around, on both sides of the river.
To scour the cramp-ring, is said metaphorically for being thrown into fetters, or, generally, into prison.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
