"Scrape up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wonderfully. Oates gives Chinaman at least three days, and Wright says he may go for a week. This is slightly inspiriting, but how much better would it have been to have had ten really reliable beasts. It's touch and go whether we scrape up to the Glacier; meanwhile we get along somehow. At any rate the bright sunshine makes everything ...
— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott
... Speed, after a silence. "You and I can scrape up a little money for her if worst comes ...
— The Maids of Paradise • Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
... at once, it will save you much sorrow hereafter. Now say no more, but scrape up a smile for those poor ...
— Yr Ynys Unyg - The Lonely Island • Julia de Winton
... know as I need to care if she did. But if the'e's care anywhe's around, I presume I'm the one to have it. I presume I did take a fancy to her, and I guess I shall be glad to see how I like her now; and if he's only told her I want some sewin' done, I can scrape up something to let her carry home with her. It's well I keep my things where I can put my hand on 'em at a time like this, and I don't believe I shall sca'e the child, as it is. I do hope Albe't won't hang round half the day before he ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells |
