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Nobody wants to feel like they've "been scrooged."
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\ "Nobody wants to feel like they\'ve \" been scrooged.
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CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: OK, look, don't get scrooged by the holiday returns -- scrooged here, by the holiday return policies because they're getting tougher.
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If it passes, many families could find themselves as one lawmaker put it, scrooged.
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Sally Ann, whut her husban ', an' Zack Badget, an 'de school-teacher whut board at Unc' Silas Diggs's house, an 'all de powerful lot of folks whut come to de doin's, dey all scrooged back in de cornder ob de shack,
The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews
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Well, I asked natural like for Nella-Rose and Marg scrooged up her mouth, knowing full well as how I knew Jed was second choice for her -- but Pete he done tell me that Nella-Rose had married Burke Lawson and run to safer parts and when I got over the shock I was certainly thankful for being a sheriff ain't all it might be when your ideas of justice and liking gets crossed.
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But times got harder and living higher priced, and finally she had to give up trying to keep the whole thing decent and just scrooged herself into those little quarters in the 'L.'
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So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, ` Up we go!
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So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, ` Up we go!
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Sally Ann, whut her husban ', an' Zack Badget, an 'de school-teacher whut board at Unc' Silas Diggs's house, an 'all de powerful lot of folks whut come to de doin's, dey all scrooged back in de cornder ob de shack,
Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906
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