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"Scrag" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... only one I'd ever promise to obey. I know it isn't pleasant, when you've been used to living in a big way, and managing hogsheads and all that, to go and put your nose in by somebody else's fireside, or to sit down by yourself to a scrag or a knuckle; but, thank God! my father's a sober man and likely to live; and if you've got a man by the chimney-corner, it doesn't matter if he's childish—the business needn't ...
— Silas Marner - The Weaver of Raveloe • George Eliot
... with the fantastic treasures of the snow; and when you toil heavily up the waterside to the clump of pines and beeches you find yourself in a fairy forest. One need not search to-day for the pool where the lynx-eyed John Todd, "the oldest herd on the Pentlands," watched from behind the low scrag of wood the stranger collie come furtively to wash away the tell-tale stains of lamb's blood. The effacing hand of the snow has smothered it over. Higher you mount, mid leg-deep in drift, up the steep and slippery hill- face, to the summit. Edinburgh has been creeping nearer since ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson - a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial • Alexander H. Japp |
Words linked to "Scrag" : throttle, contract, constrict, fat person, soul, strangulate, press, compress, cut of mutton, person, cut of veal, mortal, individual, spindlelegs, someone, strangle, compact, neck, spindleshanks, somebody, squeeze |
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