Thanks to these scrappily compelling portraits, this is a rich read. From Wordnik.com. [Review: Sullivan's Island] Reference
She seldom wrote, and then but scrappily; and it seemed to him certain that she was forgetting him. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
They sang, rather scrappily, the latest would-be comic songs, as they went through the grim villages. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin and the Gypsy] Reference
The dog yapped scrappily at the traffic zooming by as Wolfe waited patiently for the traffic light to change. From Wordnik.com. [Cyberbooks]
Victory was so close for the French, they had only to break through the scratch defence that was scrappily forming, and the day was theirs. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Eagle]
Well, then, we were put in possession of the Homer of Chapman, and to work we went, turning to some of the "famousest" passages, as we had scrappily known them in Pope's version. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861] Reference
Both sides started scrappily with neither team looking convincing upfront. From Wordnik.com. [Football.co.uk news feed] Reference
The second period resumed scrappily, until Everton created the chance of the game. From Wordnik.com. [icLiverpool] Reference
This desolate garden-land had been even in my youth scrappily planned out for building. From Wordnik.com. [A Miscellany of Men] Reference
So on the back of his, i have scrappily written my details and given them out MANY times. From Wordnik.com. [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
The pugilist theme of the cover matches the scrappily raucous rockabilly meets punk sound. From Wordnik.com. [! Exclaim.ca - News] Reference
The game started scrappily, with a handful of fouls characterising the first five minutes. From Wordnik.com. [ESPNsoccernet] Reference
There was the same great advantage gained by a man of genius who wrote best scrappily and by episodes. From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens] Reference
Some slept, snoring in the scanty shade; some compared diaries or related, scrappily enough, battle experiences. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Roll] Reference
My friends arrive, I dine scrappily with them, and hurry to the Grunwald thinking to catch you over your Zabajone. From Wordnik.com. [The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith] Reference
You don't want to live scrappily-ever-after, but existing happily 100% of the time with a partner isn't realistic either. From Wordnik.com. [Toronto Sun] Reference
As it is, depite the Foley's valiant efforts, the result is scrappily unsatisfying, imparting no physiological-terpsichorial insights whatsoever. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Ferber, for instance, has left little from which to state what he did, and that little is scattered through various periodicals, scrappily enough. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Aeronautics] Reference
Green Day have taken about a decade and a half to morph from scrappily great Gilman Street pop-punkers to bloated, grandiose arena-rock statement-makers. From Wordnik.com. [Pitchfork: Latest News] Reference
By playing scrappily around the rim and fighting for every opportunity (and two early fouls from Carolyn Davis), Boogaard earned 11 minutes of playing time. From Wordnik.com. [Kansan.com stories] Reference
MINNEAPOLIS, April 22/PRNewswire/-- We gather here today to celebrate the union of two design gurus in their forward-thinking matrimony to live scrappily ever after. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
Stoke battled for an equaliser, rather scrappily at times, in the final quarter of the match before succumbing to a defeat in a match which manager Tony Pulis would have thought was a great opportunity to get off to a winning start. From Wordnik.com. [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
On Glee, Sue Sylvester's ambitions aren't confined to her Ohio high school, where she terrorizes the show's scrappily hapless glee-club losers and brutalizes her Mean Girl cheerleader charges in pursuit of a national-championship trophy. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
There's already an older border fence here, a hodgepodge of Marine Corps steel landing ramps, concertina wire, and steel beams, all scrappily patched and welded, burrowed under in places, then reinforced with dirt piles that look like cat scratchings. From Wordnik.com. [Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Reference
The objects comprising Modality Room, 2009, suggest an apartment scrappily furnished with makeshift modernist furniture and accessorized with macramé wall hangings, homemade bongs, open beer cans, half-eaten snacks, geodes, and other curious sculptures that each resemble brains suspended in three-dimensional geometric matrices. From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
Is scrappily handled; the happy ending is fundamentally soppy. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
And yet — “We picked up scrappily the hint, however, that ‘some of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
The ‘bus had to be waited for, and in the meantime they talked scrappily, coughily. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
Writing scrappily, constantly interrupted, at a little bureau in the sitting-room certainly wasn’t the deeply absorbing and consoling thing that work used to be. From Wordnik.com. [Presumption of Death]
A shaky hand and scrappily put together, but containing the glad news that the child had actually gained a few ounces in weight, and, better still, had ceased its heartrending wail. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
Play it off the cuff, he thought scrappily. From Wordnik.com. [The Elvis Latte] Reference
It was a scrappily auspicious debut, but the real point is that if there'd been no Sundance (and no distribution deal for. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider] Reference
Mrs Woodward could keep it, I thought scrappily. From Wordnik.com. [Forfeit]
Tyler's dress is also scrappily ornate. From Wordnik.com. [Adirondack Daily Enterprise] Reference
It began scrappily. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress Anne] Reference
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