(9 quotes found)
“C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb active, to make bright, to scour. W-i-n, win, d-e-r, der, winder, a casement. When the boy knows this out of the book, he goes and does it.”
Charles Dickens
“I've done this wrong a couple times, not knowing the market I went into. We have been scouring the papers and trying to understand where it is that we're going.”
Kelly Leonard
“We have scoured the Northeast and blended together what we feel is the best of the best in terms of decor and layout.”
Lee Whitney
“Sponges, dish cloths, scouring pads -- any of those things are going to harbor bacteria. You have very good evidence of this when you have a dish rag that you've washed dishes with and you leave it there on the sink overnight. The next morning, if it's warm in your house, you're going to smell an off odor. That's obviously contaminated. It's sure not going to clean dishes.”
Libby Hoyle
“We're going to scour through this document word for word, and we're going to check it against declarations we've received in the past,”
Melissa Fleming
“They have scoured the countryside looking for pieces for the engine and wings and they have slowly but surely built the thing up to what we see today,”
Michael White
“You scour the Bowery, ransack the Bronx,/ Through funeral parlors and honky-tonks./ From river to river you comb the town/ For a place to lay your family down.”
Ogden Nash
“I will teach you my townspeoplehow to perform a funeralfor you have it over a troopof artists--unless one should scour the world--you have the ground sense necessary.”
William Carlos Williams
“It looks to have been laterally pushed, not scoured in back with dirt being removed in pieces. You can see levee material, some distance pushed inside the floodwall area, like a bulldozer pushed it.”
Joseph Suhayda
