My boss man carried all the best hands to Texas and carried the scrub hands across Cypress Creek here in Arkansas, and that's where I come.
The first crowd in July swapped their wore-out scrub stock for our good stock.
I have; wait till you make your evening feed off mulga scrub and bark--that'll take the buck out of you!
Tying the camels down at nights necessitated the cutting of scrub and bushes for them to feed upon, and I doubt they got little enough to eat.
Beyond the pig-face, tussocks of grass and buck-bush, beyond that again a mass of ti-tree scrub extending to the foot of the sandhills.
Round the foot of the cliffs a small plain of saltbush is usually found, through which numerous small creeks and watercourses wind their way into the scrub beyond.
Whilst we stooped to examine the water-hole, our guide escaped into the scrub and was soon lost to view.
Not only were we baulked of our water, but nothing but dead scrub surrounded the rock, affording no feed for the camels, who had therefore to be tied down.
In the scrub we came on a cleared space, some eighty yards long and ten to twelve feet wide.
Once through the dense scrub surrounding the lake, and our old friends sand and spinifex lay before us.
At length some palmetto-scrub appeared, and palmetto-palms and other trees which cannot exist without moisture.
Not a human being could we see, the only animal life visible being some lean wild cattle, which found a scanty subsistence in the natural grasses which had sprung up where the palmetto-scrub had been burned.
I was standing in a palmetto-scrub almost up to my shoulders, when about a dozen paces off I saw a movement among the leaves, which I suspected was caused by a wild beast of some sort.
This was known, because Jasper Dale occasionally had his hired man's wife, Mrs. Griggs, in to scrub for him.
We intended to go home by a different path--one leading through cleared land overgrown with scrub maple, which had the advantage of being farther away from Peg Bowen's house.
Whitewash the stall once weekly, scrub the harness, brushes, combs and every stable appliance that he has come in contact with.
The offspring of a pure-bred cow and a scrub bull would also be a grade.
Yit she'd keep things clean ef they Made her scrub tel Jedgmunt Day!
Would wealthy women pay ten dollars to see a woman scrub a floor, even if she could scrub better than any woman who ever scrubbed before?
I scrub the floor once in a while, just because of sheer weariness from not doing anything.
I have a meeting at Hull House to attend in half an hour, and before I leave I wish you would scrub up the kitchen and your room and then you can go.
As they rounded a clump of scrub birch trees, she thought her eyes deceived her.
At such times she envisioned the rocky beach, the cabinless forest of scrub trees that must grace the surface of the island.
The man above fastened the end of the rope to the roots of a scrub oak and ran down the slope at full speed.
The nerve of Roush failed him and he took cover again behind a scrub live-oak.
In the scrub pines at the foot of the arroyo Prince found the place where a horse had been tied.
A moment after the breeze veered, bringing the scent to her, and the two dogs dashed forward into the scrub without finding either wolf or jackal lying in wait.
At that moment a ewe wandering near some scrub caught his attention.
We are now twenty feet above the level of ten days ago, and are frequently swirling along over what were then sharp, stony slopes, and brushing the topmost boughs of the lower lines of willows and scrub sycamores.
Will you accept a challenge to play a schoolscrub team?
A hundred yards ahead the woods ceased, and Gus knew that beyond were the ever-shifting sand dunes crowned with their short-lived scrub oaks or pines and tufts of beach grass which bordered a wild and lonely shore for many miles.
A little below that they stopped, and Bill found a comfortable hiding-place among scrub pines, with the boom of the breakers in his ears and the sea breeze keeping off the mosquitoes.
We have four other substitutes and I'll promise three of them for our scrub team, Brown," Sadler declared.
To scrub with a holystone, as the deck of a vessel.
To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc.
Now and then he stopped to regain his breath and scrub a handkerchief over his forehead, on which sweat had started despite the cold.
They had come to the seaward verge of the woodland, where the trees and scrub rose like a wild hedgerow on one side of a broad, well-metalled highway.
I was inclined to smile when he said, "Might be hegg belonga scrub hen sit down!
When the blacks could be spared, fish was easily obtainable, and we also drew upon the scrub fowl and pigeon occasionally, for the vaunting proclamation for the preservation of all birds had not been made.
Will this particular scrub fowl by force of her accidental discovery start a revolutionary change in the life-history of mound-builders generally?
A more unlikely spot for a scrub fowl to lay, could hardly be imagined.
The spot, bare of grass, was about twenty yards from the edge of a fairly thick, low-growing scrub where scrub fowls are plentiful.
She saw only the tall youth, standing alone like a beech tree among a cluster of scrub oaks.
Then as he listened, there came to his ears a low, mournful wail as of a night wind in the scruboaks of a bluff.
So far as they could see the narrow strip which comprised the bank of the mud gulley they had crossed was the only solid land in sight, and because of the trees and palmetto scrub they could not tell how far this ran in either direction.
Small circular islands of palmetto scrubdotted the monotonous scene and at rare intervals a clump of somber cypress told of the presence of water.
The Captain's yacht was gone from the little harbour where it was generally anchored and, though every flutter of wind in the scrub firs made Alan's heart beat expectantly, he saw nothing of Lynde Oliver.
The beach was of sand and the scrub barrens dwindled down to it almost insensibly.
Through the scrub with his uninjured eye he could make out the figures around the yellow of the fire which had gone down considerably.
Look at them young ladies, a drinkin' tea and me doin' the scrub work.
What pay do I get, mam, for all thisscrub and mop?
I don't care much for the higher education when there is so much scrub in it.
The settlers have, by the most laborious efforts, cut down the dense scrub with which this part of the country was covered.
Where the scrub has been burnt, little patches of ferns of a fresh light green colour have sprung up, and the leafy mass is broken here and there by a perpendicular rock or a white lace-like cascade.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scrub" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
