He drew away and looked at the man with that scrappy grin.
He only grinned up at her, an impertinent, scrappysort of grin.
It was a scrappy meal because Mary Ann resented getting anything ready after tea, and Mrs. Carey helped to clear away.
Then she went back to dinner, he got a scrappy meal at a hotel, and in the afternoon they took a walk in Brockwell Park.
He was standing on the rear platform of a train that was just pulling out from a town in Illinois, noted for its blood-thirsty, scrappy natives.
Scrappy Betts, first man up for the visitors, was swinging two bats, prepared to drop one of them and advance to the plate.
We are only too frequently reminded of the loose and scrappy state of our acquired knowledge by the ease with which it eludes the memory when it is needed.
But generally these selections are scrappy or fragmentary.
It was not the second, nor yet the third, time that Joseph had looked in and begun to speak in this scrappy way, continuing the tone of that dialogue in which he had assumed a sort of community of interest between Kirkwood and himself.
The remedy for this defect is to ask questions which demand answers of considerable length, and to avoid those which require only a scrappy answer.
Care must also be taken that the pupils have not merely scrappy information, but have the ideas thoroughly organized.
But that was the real truth; he was too scrappy and wouldn't let the war go on in peace and quiet.
What had transpired was this: "After the very scrappy bits of evidence which came to light at the inquest, two gentlemen bethought themselves that perhaps they had some duty to perform towards the State and the public generally.
It brought her two letters: manufacturing an event of magnitude in the life of a young woman who had yet to write her first letter and who had thus far received only a few scrappy and incoherent notes from boyish admirers.
A thousand scrappyrecollections of the strolls still remain, fragments of talk, visions of the place.
This essence struck me and I made a note of it (of a most scrappy kind) on going home.
Scrappy reading makes scrappy minds, for it destroys power of attention.
On the field he was scrappy and fearless and fought like a tiger for every bit of advantage that might help his team to win.
Joe had got through the first half with nothing against him but a base on balls--a decision which led to an acrimonious discussion between McRae and the umpire in which the scrappy manager narrowly escaped being ordered off the field.
But too many defeats were mixed in with victories, and all the time those scrappy Chicagos, seldom losing, kept closing up the gap, until when the last week of the season arrived they were right on the Giants' heels.
Since Christmas black "runners" had contrived to pass out of the town with cables, bringing us on their return scrappy news and very ancient newspapers.
He says himself that our meetings are so scrappy and patchy that he sometimes thinks they are more tantalising than none.
And whose fault is it, pray, if they are scrappy and patchy?
He's a scrappy sort of kid at that and weighs ten pounds more than his nibs; but I reckoned he'd have to do, and I thought I could stay around and part 'em if they got to mixing it.
For the scrappy kid was beating it while the going was good and was half a mile away, running hard.
One could get but little talk except of a scrappy kind, for nurses came continually in and out for tea, and, indeed, Julie had only a quarter of an hour to spare.
He turned over the scrappy conversation of the last few minutes, and found it savoured of the unknown.
With the disappearance of the scrappy effect, is not the result clearer?
On reaching the hacienda he went to the room which he occupied, and tore into bits the scrappy letters of his Madridlene.
