It beats the Dutch the faculty you fellows have of getting into scrapes and out again," commented Melton.
Even in these "piping days of peace" that they so much deplored, they had shown an almost uncanny ability to get into scrapes of various kinds, from which sometimes they had narrowly escaped with a whole skin.
A lots o' folks has come out'n scrapes wuss'n what you are in, ten to one.
My gals git me into devilish scrapes sometimes, an' I'm always sayin' they got to stop it.
Tom stuck to him till he left, and got into many scrapes by so doing.
It happened just about the time at which we have now arrived, and was the first of a series of scrapesinto which our hero now managed to tumble.
Brown is the more reckless of the two, I should say; East wouldn't get into so many scrapes without him.
I must absolutely hear of no tavern scrapes and squabbles.
This is a steel wire with a ring at one end, and at the other is screwed on to the wire a conical cap with sharp cutting edges at the base, which scrapes away the thickened masses of cells as it is drawn back.
One veterinarian who has had considerable practice in treating this form of diseasescrapes through the attachment of the tumor gradually with his thumb nail.
There is a pause, while Gordon scrapes portions of food off the soiled plates.
He looks and looks, and scrapes the trees with his butcher knife, and snaps the grass like pipe stems, and breaks the leaves a-snappin' like Californy shells.
Perhaps it is because he has been in so many scrapes himself that he always feels sorry for others who get into trouble.
Whenever Chatterer the Red Squirrel has heard a new story about Peter and the scrapes his curiosity has got him into, Chatterer has said that Peter got no more than he deserved.
Trust me, dear Yorick, this unwary pleasantry of thine will sooner or later bring thee into scrapes and difficulties, which no after-wit can extricate thee out of.
Ye, who preside over this vast empire of biographical freebooters, and see how many scrapes and plunges your subjects hourly fall into;--will you do one thing?
You have got me out of all my scrapes hitherto, Francisco, and you must see me safely through this.
If he would only get into some terrible scrape, Giulia and I would set out to rescue him at once; but you see he gets out of his scrapes before we hear of them.
He not only pursues and haunts me like my own shadow, but he gets me into scrapes by passing his schooner for mine when he is caught.
I have already said that they are a wild set--not easily restrained even when I am present; and fond of getting into scrapes when they can.
Sitting at one end of the board, she holds the leaf firmly with her toes, and scrapesits outer surface with a potsherd; not with the sharp fractured edge but with the blunt side of the rim; and thus the leaf is reduced to rags.
I shall be careful about getting into these scrapes again.
I hope we shall meet soon my dear Old Rip and we will not get into any more tremendous scrapes will we.
I am not much of a dab at my exercise,' he said under his breath, 'but I shall get into fewer scrapes at that work than at this.
When you learn to yield less and she more, there will be no scrapes like this to try us all.
Frank was considered a remarkably well-bred and proper lad, and rather prided himself on his good reputation, for he never got into scrapes like the other fellows.
As it is furnished with a mane, has a difficulty in turning the head, and scrapes up dead bodies from their graves, it has every appearance of being the hyaena of the ancients.
When at a loss for prey he scrapes up the earth with his feet, and tears out the carcasses of animals and men, which in the countries he inhabits are promiscuously buried in the fields.
Naturally, a full report of the solid lessons which we learned would make a very stupid story, but the lessons formed our daily diet, and the scrapes and good times that I have chronicled occurred only at intervals.
Why are you always thinking upscrapes for Winnie to get into?
The dredge is thus dragged along and scrapesoysters and other sea-animals and plants, stones, and mud into the bag.
Chains attach the ends of the frame to a stout rope, so that when the bag is dragged along by the rope the edge of one of the scrapers rests on the ground, andscrapes whatever it touches into the bag.
But yet how dull the world, now as then, would be without them and their bats and balls, and pockets full of rubbish, and everlasting scrapes and mischief, and honest old hearts!
Justin reddened again, and muttered something about getting into scrapes enough without needing to put himself into them; remarks which Mrs. Caryll thought it wiser not to hear.
Oh, you've been in worse scrapes than this," said Frank, who saw that his cousin was losing heart again.
Indeed, she was more often the leading spirit in the fun, frolics or scrapes into which they were constantly plunging, as for example the one alluded to in the opening chapter.
But Aileen possessed an armor to combat just such a temperament and her companion, Sally Conant's wits were sharp enough to get out of most of the scrapesinto which she led her friend.
In the late afternoon, from four to seven, he comes round again and scrapes off the congealed milk, which is then worked up into cakes and taken to the factory.
But of course the roadman comes and scrapes off all the new growth of colonizing grasses, etc.
The motherly care shown by Alma Mater that her sons should not fall into scrapes by making Guys of themselves, is here very strongly evidenced; and I think it would be a profitable subject for inquiry, if MR.
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