A diet rich in scud, crayfish & aquatic insects will turn a white-meat hatchery fish into a pink-meat table fish in about 6 months. From Wordnik.com. [I recently caught a nice rainbow (15") on a gold ribbed hares ear nymph.] Reference
Troops from the 101st Airborne woken up this morning by the so-called scud alarm, donning their masks. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2003] Reference
"How dare you refer to the Lord of the Air as 'scud'!" the dream centaur translated. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
One of the other news outlets referred to the Taepodong I missiles as "scud" type missiles. From Wordnik.com. [George has made fools out of Americans in the eyes of the world.] Reference
A "scud" is made by Nabokov to refer to "an unaccented stress" — that is, what we call a secondary accent. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov] Reference
War worries amid Hezbollah-Israel 'scud' crisis - Feature. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
He must "lie to," and ride out the gale, or "scud" before it. From Wordnik.com. [The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea] Reference
I should be blinded if I did, or blistered by the "scud" of the angular atoms. From Wordnik.com. [The Rifle Rangers] Reference
While most hook companies now have a 'scud' hook of similar design, the Dai-Riki, Mustad. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
It can be scud, which is just rapidly rising air. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2009] Reference
Printed "dirgy scud" in all but the 1804 original. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
Might those scud missiles have been going to them?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2002] Reference
To the tips o 'the sprigs when the scud wer a-gone. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect] Reference
And my stars! how they scud along on them big hoofs. From Wordnik.com. [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference
One huge talon of lightning clutched at the flying scud. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
We couldn't defend against that scud missile from Saddam. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: What Does Congress Think of President Clinton's Decision to Delay Deployment of Missile Defense System? - September 2, 2000] Reference
The flying scud made it impossible to see far to windward. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
On the other hand, 12 scud missiles is no small ticket item. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2002] Reference
But over the scud and the palm trees an English flag was flown. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria] Reference
She can't help it, though, for she must scud before this storm. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls at Sea or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real] Reference
I waked the palms to laughter -- I tossed the scud in the breeze. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
Our only chance is to scud before it, until it has blown itself out. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Wireless Message: or, the castaways of Earthquake island] Reference
"I think, from the scud, we shall have wind from the south'ard, Bill.". From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
The scud is flying all over us now that we are running before the wind. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference
Away we scud, passing ships that think they are going pretty fast, but. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Dolphin] Reference
Magdalens loom at times through the driving scud, as they drove northward. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
We lowered the main-sail again, and set four reefs of fore-sail to scud under. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War] Reference
The clouds are darkening fast, and fog or a thick scud is sweeping up from the southward. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
A wisp of snipes utter their well-known cry and scud over the heath; one of these is secured. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
The only thing to do was to scud before the gale, with the engines and crew doing what they could. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
My watch now, and 'I won't have one of ye round -- scud! or wait a minute an' I'll pitch ye out. '. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
There was but one thing to do, to run before the tornado, as ships on the sea scud before the gale. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Air to the North Pole or The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch] Reference
I see a light scud creeping up from leeward, behind us, with the waves fringing up into a curl before it. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
They're moments of happy self-delusion, which warm me for a second before the clouds of self-doubt scud back in. From Wordnik.com. [Julia Stuart: How a Beefeater and a Tortoise Captured America's Attention] Reference
They had invented the sail, though it was centuries before any one learned to do more than scud before the wind. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
Southern winds stretch the sails; we scud over the foam-flecked waters, whither wind and pilot called our course. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
One night, as the yacht neared New York, Josephine and Zeke sat together, watching the scud of clouds across the moon. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
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