Call it by what name you will, Gabriel Tar, or Gibraltar, that infinitesimal scrap of territory over which the Union Jack floats, is supremely unpalatable and insolently insulting to the Spaniard.
Another sign particular of this irregular force that impressed me much was a bleeding heart embroidered on a small scrap of cloth, and sewn on the left breasts of nearly all on the ground.
At his elbow is a porthole, brightly curtained with a scrap of clean chintz, and he can hear the swash of the seas along his ship's tall side.
This scrap of mere phrases indicates a mind that was far beneath the calibre of that of a real statesman.
Nelson first heard of Sir Robert Calder's scrap from the Ushant squadron, and was strong in sympathy and defence against the unworthy public attacks made on the Admiral for not succeeding as he would.
Lizzie Graham held on to her sun-bonnet, and stopped in a scrap of shade under a meagre oak to get breath.
But the moon shone full on the wall, affording them not a scrapof shadow.
He doesn't care a scrap for anything," said Emily with accumulated bitterness.
Whereupon the editor handed to Phineas a long scrap of printed paper, amounting to about a column and a half of the People's Banner, containing a letter to the editor dated from Loughlinter, and signed Robert Kennedy at full length.
It was observed that he held a scrap of paper in his hand, and that the barrister held a similar scrap.
I have not seen or heard of any scrap of evidence indicating that the Soviet Union had any desire to eliminate President Kennedy nor in any way participated in any such event.
That battalion got into the thick of everyscrap that started.
And he knew that somewhere in the toolbox was concealed the little scrap of paper which had cost two lives already and might take his own as toll were he not careful.
Never-Fail Blake, alone in his office and still assailed by the vaguely disturbing perfumes which she had left behind her, pondered her reasons for taking back Binhart's scrap of paper.
But this poor scrap was wagging his stubby tail and looking at her in a coaxing manner that said plainly, "Let's be friends!
Most of them had some scrap of dingy crepe somewhere about them--had lost their men at the battle-front!
I correspond constantly and copiously with such of my daughters as are willing to answer my letters, and I have at last received one cold scrap from the eldest, which I instantly and tenderly replied to.
Not a scrap as I can see; the pecuniary affairs have gone on perversely: how should they chuse [an omission here] when the sole proprietor is incapable of giving orders, yet not so far incapable as to be set aside!
He began to hunt about among the debris which littered one end of the cellar, testing fragment after fragment, but failing to find any piece of scrap to suit his purpose.
A detailed search of the Chinaman's premises had failed to bring to light any scrap of evidence to show that opium had ever been smoked there.
But finally they turned a corner formed by a stack of rusty scrap iron, and found a long, low building before them.
As they came out into the desolation of the scrap heaps, the last traces of fog had disappeared and a steady breeze came up the river, fresh and salty from the Nore.
There was not a scrap of tangible evidence against her, except what Santos had carried with him in the filibustering expedition already off from New Orleans.
But nothing, not a scrap of new evidence did they find.
Mechanically Constance crumpled the card and the envelope in her hand and held them as she regarded the passing throng, intending to throw them away when she passed a scrap basket on the way out.
Her little soul--a tiny scrap of a thing in that vague prison of dull flesh--was suddenly wounded, desperately hurt by the only weapon that could ever have found it.
And yet this was all morbidity and Peter, square, broad-shouldered, had no scrap of morbidity in his clean body.
Chaos and Old Night: a pile of scrap with a hole torn in the middle of it as if by an explosion, and a fire going.
I haven't been stealing in car-load lots from the company that hires me; I have merely been buying a little disused scrap from you.
In the face of this British announcement, certain officials in the Holy Land acted as if this epoch-making Declaration were nothing but a mere "scrap of paper.
She dropped to her knees and flicked the offended organ with a scrap of lace and lawn.
If I'm ever in a big scrap I hope I shall have Yoshio behind me.
They were both silent for a moment thinking of the three charming Americans who had spent a couple of months at the Towers the previous summer, bringing with them an adored scrap of humanity and a host of nurses, valets and maids.
Busy as were his hands, his mind was no less busy, catching up and using every scrap of knowledge which came in his way.
At seven in the morning, behold me mounted on a miserable little scrap of a donkey, for which my English saddle even more than myself was a world too large.
A small leaden box lay under the tile, which she opened, and, taking from it a little white powder, which she folded in a scrap of paper, replaced the box and the tile over it.
If, however, the piece of grey paper is put outside the thin sheet, it looks grey; and what is most remarkable is that when a second piece is put outside, the scrap inside no longer wears the complementary hue.
He then introduced a scrap of grey paper between the two sheets, and found that, instead of looking whitish as it really was, it looked rose-red.
Whatever the colour of the under sheet the grey scrap took the complementary hue.
