There is an unawareness of the daily blood letting and skin leavings we sacrifice in our work. From Wordnik.com. [A PRIMER ON UNLEARNING CLASSISM] Reference
The farmers would share their wells, and the herders would feed their stock on the leavings from the harvest. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Roots of Darfur] Reference
All of a sudden he catches sight of some leavings from the boys 'supper, and begins immediately to grumble because they have had chicken. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from the Marsh Croft] Reference
I wonder if the consider their "leavings" as pollution?. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
I don't apologize for my words about 'leavings' and all that. From Wordnik.com. [The Idiot] Reference
Perhaps it can be said that these three "leavings" are metaphors for the three major brain centers which fight each other for dominance. From Wordnik.com. [Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Korach 5769 - June 26, 2009 ]] Reference
"I mean 'leavings' in the bowl when the cake's ready for the oven. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
So that the file-leavings might not over fiercely. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Besides, I really only took your leavings, you know. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
The huge leavings and loom of a kindred of high ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
The battle-strong's beacon; the brands 'very-leavings. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
They refuse only beef, monkeys and the leavings of others. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Kicked and punched and fed on the leavings of the fo'castle. From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
I ask now, how's we to get coal at all if we don't get the leavings. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
Only the wife, whose meal follows her husband's, will eat his leavings. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Dhanwars eat nearly all kinds of food except beef and the leavings of others. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
She looked like a crow to herself, a scavenger who fed on the leavings of others. From Wordnik.com. [The Flame Child] Reference
I reckon the Master figure it to the last bite because they was no leavings over. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives] Reference
And they took up the leavings, twelve full baskets of fragments, and of the fishes. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 48: Mark The Challoner Revision] Reference
They refuse to eat monkeys, jackals, crocodiles, lizards, beef and the leavings of others. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
When he went out to Rover with the plate of leavings, he patted him affectionately and said. From Wordnik.com. [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference
With so great sadness the son of the Consul take leavings and we make entrance into Hospital. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Maids of Far Cathay] Reference
It's like one of those dinner parties where you put cyanide and catbox leavings "on the table.". From Wordnik.com. [TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads] Reference
The Bharias do not eat monkeys, beef or the leavings of others, but they freely consume fowls and pork. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
They will take food cooked with water from Brahmans and Sudhs, and even the leavings of food from Brahmans. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
I shall not eat the leavings on any dish, nor shall I wash anybody's feet, nor shall I have to speak with other men. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
A man will not allow his sister's children to eat the leavings of food on his plate, though his own children may do so. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Bears made these their habitual resorts, while the wolf skulked every night round the camp, waiting their scanty leavings. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference
"Because I subsist on the leavings of his prey, and am secure from the ill-will of my enemies under the asylum of his valor.". From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
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