“We really fought and scraped and finished the first half well, which we hadn't done of late. But the first few minutes of the second half – they were just too much.”
Beth Burns
“"Upon shaving off one's beard." The scissors cut the long-grown hair; the razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, bug-eyed, I stare at the forgotten boy I was.”
John Updike
“According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.”
Mark Tobey
“Scraping the bottom of the barrel”
Proverb
“I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, / And putting apples wondrous ripe, / Into a cider- press's gripe.”
Robert Browning
“We saw everything from minor cuts and scrapes, to severe lacerations, broken bones, and cardiac arrests. Everything you could imagine was happening in that dome.”
Deanna Lassegard
“One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.”
David F. Houston
