I scoured my daily mail with cautious hope, thinking "Maybe today I'll hear from her"; yet nothing came of that hope.
Each day his feet scoured the cement; no door was left unopened.
It scoured the country round about, and as soon as Federal forces began to gather for its destruction, it retreated by quite a different route from that by which it had advanced.
At Padua, during the long siege, he scoured the country with his band of horse, and frequently rode back to camp at nightfall with more prisoners than armed men.
How many times have we scoured the woods and the plains together.
They launched themselves through the open entrance, gained the space beyond, and scoured away to the battlefield.
Every Palm Sunday, the day on which the battle of Towton was fought, a rough figure, called the Red Horse, on the side of a hill in Warwickshire, is scoured out.
Protected from arrow and lance by a coat of steel, the long chaffron, or pike, which projected from its barbed frontal dropped with gore as it scoured along.
The change from the filth of a Chinese city to Nagasaki, clean as if it had all just been newly scoured and varnished, is something delightful.
His blows fell like scorching missiles, but Philip took them like a rock scoured with shingle, raining blood like water, but standing firm.
So he scoured every poor quarter of the town, every rookery of old Douglas, and this was set down to an interest in the poor.
They scouredthe country in all directions and in all seasons, and by the swiftness of their movements, and the certainty of their vengeance, rivalled their predecessors, the rangers.
I should mention that these three parties in their progress scoured the country and pressed various persons whom they compelled to march with them, at the same time seizing all the arms they could find.
But Childe Charity scoured and scrubbed no more, for she grew a great lady, even in the eyes of her proud cousins.
All the day she scoured pails, scrubbed dishes, and washed crockery ware.
They scoured the hills and woods for game, brought fish from the river, and seemed to think even that not doing enough.
Both Captains Lewis and Clark with their best men scoured the country, and finally succeeded in finding the Shoshones, who had fled from their supposed enemies.
Copsley Wood had been scoured by a band of beaters from end to end, with no better success than had attended the efforts of the two men the night before.
By this time, I expect, they'll have scoured the country, and be getting the canal dragged in search of you both.
This, with the pure milk, from the cleanest of scoured pans, was acceptable enough after the long walk.
The cook was put upon duty; pot and pan were scoured for more delicate viands; Picton was chef de cuisine; we had a magnificent banquet that day on the "Balaklava.
With the vigor of famishing men they scoured the country for game, and nets were skilfully set under cascade falls, which yielded the first morning a dozen trout and white-fish.
Rae had earlier found that bunches of the arctic saxifrage made excellent fuel when dried, and as there were neither trees nor shrubs the hills and valleys were scoured for this useful plant.
The cavalry scoured the country in all directions, in the hope of overtaking Ambiorix; the prospect of seizing him, and gaining thereby the gratitude of the general, made them support infinite fatigues, almost beyond human endurance.
Next day the room was scoured out, and the lively matting ejected, while we were strolling round Sheshaoua between heavy showers of rain, which reduced the clay country to a state of quagmire.
In advance was Major-General von Briefen’s splendid cavalry brigade, who, during the march, had scoured the county almost as far west as the River Rother itself.
Assisted by a number of the Frontiersmen, we scoured the country across to Sudbury, and in that hot, exciting week that followed dozens of the enemy fell to our guns.
These scoured every county in search of likely animals.
She thereupon showed him some big pike arranged in order of size upon clean scoured shelves, beside some bronze-hued tench and little heaps of gudgeon.
When he met them prowling about in the afternoon, he often scoured the neighbourhood with them, strolling around with his hands in his pockets, and deeply interested in the life of the streets.
During two long hours I scoured the grass and peered into every nook, and as soon as ever I found a fresh violet I carried it to her.
Bands of armed vagabonds scoured the country districts, pillaging the villages and plundering the crops.
Brigands," armed with pikes and clubs, scouredthe streets, threatening the houses in which the trembling and agitated citizens had shut themselves.
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