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An old quarry was being widened and leveled, and the boys followed the bulldozers as they scraped away a stratum of earth to reveal fragile, fossil-bearing shale underneath.
By winning power within the Republican Party, Trump scraped into office with fewer votes than rival Hillary Clinton but with more Electoral College delegates.
Your car insurer pays to repair your scraped fender, without government help, because most other insured people did not have a collision at the same time.
Fifteen metres higher they came on the first secondary passage, but they had to continue, as the cutting of Maheu and his mates was in the sixth passage, in hell, as they said; every fifteen metres the passages were placed over each other in never-ending succession through this cleft, which scraped back and chest.
For a long time a coffee-mill scraped, but no one awoke in the room.
"Levaque's wife is catching it," Maheu peacefully stated as he scraped the bottom of his bowl with the spoon.
Then, as he still scraped, he added proudly:"Isn't it comfortable in my house?
But the cod was at last scraped.
The gun scraped his spine; he had not allowed the child to go for the candle-end, which he preserved avariciously.
I went below just as another projectile scraped the Nautilus's hull, and I heard the captain exclaim:"Shoot, you demented vessel!
After I have obscurely scraped together a little money by going round all these timber sales, and winning the favour of various minor rascals, who can say whether I shall still preserve the sacred fire with which one makes oneself a name?'
So we scraped them, and that was harder work than peeling.
One side of his body lifted itself, he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the ground.
Then he scraped away the dirt, and exposed a pine shingle.
Obviously they have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it.
The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer passengers than usual.
"I am comfortably off, monsieur, that’s all; I have scraped together some such thing as an income of two or three thousand crown in the haberdashery business, but more particularly in venturing some funds in the last voyage of the celebrated navigator Jean Moquet; so that you understand, monsieur--But--" cried the citizen.
Up we came to the big Frenchman, took her fire, and scraped the paint off her before we let drive.
Dunstan, how it must be scraped and cleansed ere it be again fit for a Christian!"
It was impossible to shut the door fast, as it scraped the floor.
The fat little man scraped his clogs on the doorstep, shook his short smock powdered with snow, and came in.
On coming out of the wood, where we scraped and stamped the mud from our shoes on the dry road, the sun began to strike fiercely down.
He fell to work; and in an instant he had scraped a hole in the sand with his hands big enough to bury the first in, and then dragged him into it, and covered him; and did so by the other also; I believe he had him buried them both in a quarter of an hour.
Afterwards, the wall was whitewashed or scraped down, I know not which, and the inscription disappeared.
It will have to be scraped; it will be a terrible job.'
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