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  • All de folks den, dey went up on de poach to look at 'im, drappin' dey hats on de steps, an 'scrapin' dey feets ez dey went up. An 'pres'n'y old marster, lookin' down at we all chil'en all packed togerr down dyah like a parecel o 'sheep-burrs, cotch sight o' ME

    Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

  • All de folks den, dey went up on de poach to look at 'im, drappin' dey hats on de steps, an 'scrapin' dey feets ez dey went up.

    Marse Chan; A Tale of Old Virginia 1881

  • I've no intention of supposin 'that Elijah will ever keep on coverin' his soap an 'scrapin' his feet long, but so far so good, an 'last night it was real pleasant to hear the rain an' him together tellin 'how much trouble they're havin', owin 'to Hiram's bein' too energetic wringin 'the handle of the printin' press an 'then to think as when he was all done talkin' it would be him an 'not me as in common decency would have to go out in the wet to padlock the chickens.

    Susan Clegg and a Man in the House Anne Warner 1891

  • "Not so cur'ous neither," replied the man, with some feeling; "it's my opinion, the further a man goes from the owld country, and the rougher he becomes wi 'scrapin' up and down through the world, the more tinder his heart gits when he thinks o 'his mother.

    The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West 1859

  • I never let on, an away we went, me not even knowin 'the horses -- but, say, if you'd seen me throw them leaders clean to the top of the manure till the nigh horse was scrapin' the side of the barn to make it, an 'the off hind hub was cuttin' the corner post of the paddock to miss by six inches.

    CHAPTER IV 2010

  • If you people think there crap is stupid dont see the fuckin movie ok and stop with the bad comments. if you people do this again i will kill the scrapin spark out of you. you got THAT!!!!!!

    New Transformers 2 Robots Revealed: The Twins, Arcee, Jetfire, and More! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Iz bad enuf dat ai havta go 2 wurk on Mondai, but scrapin da snow off when da calendur sayz SPRING iz a pain in da hiney.

    Angry BBQ - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Ai was 2 bizee scrapin da snow offa mai car dis mornin dat ai forgotted mai CHRG.

    take a kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Fingool MacKishgmard Obesume Burgearse Benefice, He was bowen hem and scrapin him in recolcitrantament to the right-about And these probenopubblicoes clamatising for an extinsion on his hostillery With his chargehand bombing their eres.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • 'Listen, sheep-shagger, if I had PMT, they'd be scrapin' your sack off the ceilin 'with a spatula right now, okay?'

    A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

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