"Scraper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... begin, when my enemy, the boatswain, appeared at the galley door. "Here, cook," he said, "where's that limb of a boy? Oh, you're there, are you? Feeding your face. Get a three-cornered scraper right now. You'll scrape up that slush you spilled, before you eat so much as a reefer's nut." I had to go on deck again for another hour, while I scraped up the slush, which was, surely, spilled as much by himself as by me, since he was ...
— Martin Hyde, The Duke's Messenger • John Masefield
... eyes was cold and steel-gray. Oh, he knew the symptoms, he did. He was an observer, and he knew it, too, and some day, when he was big enough, he was going to be a reporter, sure. And in the meantime he studied the procession of life as it streamed up and down eighteen sky-scraper floors in his elevator car. He slid the door open for her sympathetically and watched her trip determinedly ...
— Moon-Face and Other Stories • Jack London
... patent scraper sold Old Highboys used to beat them all! See what Society has done— He's holding ...
— Poems • Elizabeth Stoddard
... was settin' in it, SO: A-readin' of a paper. His mules was goin' powerful slow, Fur he had tied the lines onto The staple of the scraper. ...
— The Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier
... is not commonly practiced, but this is the easiest means of preventing dampness in the house and is necessary in heavy soils. The ground-level may be raised with a plow and scraper, or the foundation of the house may be built and filled ...
— The Dollar Hen • Milo M. Hastings
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