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1. Here and there, flocks of sheep scour the ground, they look undernourished and thin, their fleeces bitty
2. There is an ugly moment while I scour around fruitlessly for a way to smooth over my faux pas
3. We quickly scour the upper floor ceilings and find a hatch – dragging a chair from one of the rooms, Gary stands on it and pokes his head through
4. “Find her! Scour the planet if you have to, but find her!” he screamed at the man, who jumped up and ran out of the Hall
5. The headmaster continued, “The heads of each department were enlisted to scour your submissions for any flaw, whatsoever, to no avail
6. Type your niche into Google and scour the websites to see which website
7. The power could easily have been employed to scour the cottage from roof to hearth, but hands on work kept the women focussed
8. Gathering some guards together he sent them out to scour the sett, pacing back and forth in agitation
9. Aronka OPP had an officer scour the surrounding area, but saw no animal
10. They had begun to scour the lands pillaging, raping, and burning, before they dug their teeth in what they thought would be the grand feast of Pyr itself
11. muffled or hid, but to sweep and scour will instantly
12. Palin it was necessary to scrape and scour for every wart or carbuncle to be found in her public, private, or family life, and to enlarge anything found to hideous dimensions
13. vessel with the search light returned and began to scour the area
14. Giving them orders to scour the crew quarters decks and appeal to whoever they thought would be sympathetic to their cause
15. I can scour the gutter press for evidence that this man is corrupt, that he is lower than me and really belongs in the sewer
16. They scour the area for a couple of hours and find nothing
17. After analysing all the relevant data, Tony predicted that if we ever had a king tide accompanied by unusually high rainfall in the coastal ranges, coinciding with cyclonic winds from the sea, or something like that, then the canals would burst and join the river systems, drained land would revert to swamp, and silt would create a sandbar parallel to the coast, causing the river to sweep south and scour out the beach in front of us here
18. He began to scour the appropriate shop windows in Slough
19. And so it came, after much roving of the eyes, that I determined to pry myself from the initial fear that held me at bay, and contended, at least for the while, to scour about the middle level of this haunt
20. Under ordinary circumstances they'd scour the woods for miles in every direction
21. If you don’t have much time to scour for the seeds that you need, and your garden is already prepared for planting, then you should buy your seeds online
22. ” This is telling you not to scour the internet and bookshelves for extra-Biblical
23. Captain Altman and an associate began to scour the area
24. As they began to scour the area I felt compelled to squash
25. “Why have the Teoti not sent out scouts to scour the country for us, why have they not responded to the threat we pose, something is not right Loka, but for the love of the gods I can’t understand what game the Teoti are playing
26. Both of us began to scour the area, hoping for a sign
27. “We’ll scour the entire area between here and
28. This can’t go on! You will all scour your own archives and files and identify to me those who are found with a suspect past, so that I can meet and interview them
29. Another group of raiders was going to take care of the transport and tanker aircraft parked on a more distant apron, while yet another group would scour the various aircraft hangars
30. continued to scour the house for anything that might solve the mystery
31. A patrol could scour the ranch on horseback, following any of the herds without presenting the expected Melioran appearance
32. Its flesh was a powerful scour, and Toughy had gathered some from the mountains
33. “She knows more than any of us, and that boy will be the start of an ugly scour
34. A search party was immediately sent out to scour the crater-laden surface for the cooler
35. hundreds of Federation soldiers have been sent to scour the city
36. She learned to scour the woods for firewood, build fires from twigs, grass and scraps of paper, how and where to pick fistfuls of clover, 109
37. “We’ll scour that alien mothership until we find him,” said Mike
38. Erlandr would bargain with the Riverraider for ownership of his boat, working off the cost with labour if necessary, or he'd scour Greenland for another boat
39. After hearing their news, he promised to scour the
40. “I suggest we stop there briefl y and scour the road for
41. We scour the area, but can't find a drop
42. We will scour the nearby beaches and bays of Prince William Sound, searching for a black bear
43. She had finished school and was at that age when families, in our tight Greek community, activated their radars to scour the field for a suitable husband
44. White Clouds constantly scour the air and atmosphere of the Earth… removing dust and impurities from it, so the air we breath stays fresh and clean
45. basis to scour the net and find interesting content to provide your
46. He wanted to flee to the place where her purse was found and scour the ocean to find her that instant
47. You can scour the Internet for all sorts of different business ideas and opportunities
48. Identity thieves scour the obituary columns looking for information they can use to establish a new identity
49. As for white armour, he resolved, on the first opportunity, to scour his until it was whiter than an ermine; and so comforting himself he pursued his way, taking that which his horse chose, for in this he believed lay the essence of adventures
50. And so he went on naming a number of knights of one squadron or the other out of his imagination, and to all he assigned off-hand their arms, colours, devices, and mottoes, carried away by the illusions of his unheard-of craze; and without a pause, he continued, "People of divers nations compose this squadron in front; here are those that drink of the sweet waters of the famous Xanthus, those that scour the woody Massilian plains, those that sift the pure fine gold of Arabia Felix, those that enjoy the famed cool banks of the crystal Thermodon, those that in many and various ways divert the streams of the golden Pactolus, the
1. At one end of the room two elderly women sat at a terminal, hissing information at each other as they scoured the database
2. scoured clean by frost and ice, streak the walls of slowly
3. His soldiers and his sailors searched the heavens, scoured the
4. scoured the cooker and when it was all done Kirk ran down to the
5. It was as though the flesh had been scoured from his face and then doused in gasoline
6. Saldon scoured the buildings and found some oil flasks nearby
7. It was almost too much to bear, but a team of pirates also scoured the woods and rounded up all the younglings again, including Wyll and Cheeryup
8. The levies scoured the bush in advance of the prisoners in case there should be any attempt to assassinate the King, and several times disturbed waiting Ashantis, who were lurking in the trees to obtain a last glimpse of Prempeh, rather than lying in wait to kill him
9. thread, and her only pair of small scissors, scoured to the last
10. For an hour after dark, details scoured the valley for wounded, and surgeons worked on all night in the moonlight, while guerillas took pot-shots at them from the trees
11. crime scene in and around Mia"s apartment building would be preserved until the investigators had scoured for all possible traces of physical evidence and photographed everything from as many angles as possible
12. As the earth scoured away from under this now-raging torrent, it morphed into an ever more towering waterfall which, in its turn, wore away the base of the natural dam until, with an earthshaking shudder, it collapsed entirely
13. We spent a day in Texcalla and scoured the market for gifts for all my relatives
14. scoured the countryside for supplies and those in need
15. In vain had she scoured the town for another job
16. Scoured means to scrub, or polish
17. Reaching out, he locked hands and slowly rolled off the slide area and onto what appeared to be more firm support as the water scoured the loose sand and rock close by
18. With a steady hissing sound, that Moshe had earlier mistaken for a ringing in his ears, it scoured away the sand of the ridge that was still above its edge, revealing the rock-strewn base beneath it
19. Myserrah scoured the City, endangering its security, to enlarge his troop far beyond what the vizier had authorized, bringing it to the size of a corps in anticipation of the march ahead
20. firm support as the water scoured the loose sand and rock close by
21. mistaken for a ringing in his ears, it scoured away the sand of the ridge that was still above its
22. The biting sand grains scoured him, but caused him no pain
23. Myserrah scoured the City, endangering its security, to enlarge his troop far beyond what the
24. rest of us scoured the deck for buoyant objects, Onni running
25. scoured the area for other clues, but couldn’t really find much
26. scoured through his applications for one named LookinGlass
27. They must be getting close and Roger kept his fingers crossed as the teams scoured the area nearby
28. The two scoured through
29. scoured the road up ahead and saw two flickering red lights in
30. I have scoured Western Tanaria and have found nothing
31. “I scoured that place
32. The beach would be scoured
33. I scoured the corridor for weapons
34. The river was full and they swam in a series of deep holes scoured out between giant granite boulders
35. I started to purchase more books than I care to remember, I scoured countless articles on the web and had some fairly frank conversations with my male friends
36. &OR THE NEXT FEW MINUTES THEY ALL SCOURED THE MENU /NCE THEYD ORDERED THE
37. ” Her soldiers scoured the palace and secured it, killing all those they found, leaving only a few servants to carry on with the running of the building
38. and the land they scoured,
39. Sophie's people scoured Vienna but the stranger had disappeared without trace
40. Some of the world's greatest maritime explorers have scoured the hundreds of islands, reefs, sand bars, channels, coves and indeed, much of the continental shelf, searching for that wretched treasure ship," she said with a thin, sceptical smile, as if the searchers' antics amused her
41. For five days my patrols scoured the countryside and just when all hope seemed gone, a patrol noticed an unfrozen creek
42. He asked what would have happened had the problem not been discovered and I told him that it could have scoured the litho plate clean after only a few hundred sheets, and perhaps damaged the rubber litho blankets or even the stainless steel rollers
43. With lights beneath their guns they scoured around them in a sweeping arc
44. The agent scoured a map of the state of New York
45. Riding in a fan formation with Feltus and Terence in the center and the other two men flanking them, they headed south as they scoured the wild landscape that appeared to change dramatically each time the lightning exploded, even though they knew movement had been limited to only a few feet, and plowed quietly through the storm; the Ocean Forest Hotel disappeared completely behind them, leaving them alone and without that bastion of strength, like a lighthouse to lost ships, to support and encourage them
46. Suddenly, he wondered if the combination of poor luck and the mental torture of crimes against him had subconsciously altered his mindset, to enter a liquor store, in such a random fashion? His glossy eyes then scoured the various rows, to match the craving he seemed to desire
47. Knowing time conservation was essential, he scoured the lab cabinets for any venomous extractions, one's that could be readily used for anti-venom treatments
48. "Well Mitchell, we scoured your place for hours the other night, relayed prints to the lab among other things, but nothing conclusive even caught my eye
49. scoured all the storage facilities in the port area, in the city itself, and for fifty miles around,
50. She scoured the treeline but even after a long pause no wolf emerged
1. ‘No … but as I said, I haven’t had anything to do with her for a couple of years … why would anyone shoot her?’ I said, scouring my memories for any inkling which might give a clue
2. I’d started in the kitchen, washing up the breakfast things and then taking the cooker to pieces, scouring the chrome rings and going wild with the oven cleaner
3. ‘When was the battery changed last?’ I asked, scouring my mind for possible reasons for this
4. She lay back against the pillows and closed her eyes, scouring her brain for any clue as to what might have caused this situation
5. Again she set off, scouring her memory for details of the subway
6. It had been hard visiting Abery before but Joris hadn’t been there and she’d been able to withdraw into herself to some extent … and the European trip had been hectic, demanding her full attention … and in London afterwards she’d been occupied in achieving Joris’s purpose … and the trip across had kept her mind busy, first with JJ and then Iain … and even coming back, being at The Centre and travelling on the wasteg … that too had been manageable … but now … with no purpose to drive her, no solitude to enfold her and no Joris but only the shadow of his memory imprinted in JJ’s face and voice … she felt naked, vulnerable and viciously exposed to the scouring of her grief
7. scouring the hard read words within
8. ’ I replied, scouring my mind for any hint of this period
9. ’ I said, scouring my brain for any recollections of that time
10. land at their backs, they took to scouring the pools
11. scouring the bones clean,
12. ‘Banswell? Is that near Weston-super-Mare?’ I asked scouring my memory for recollections of that area and finding that it throws up a card
13. She went outside and was scouring down the B-B-Q grill, and she was pretty sure that they wouldn’t hear her inside
14. They all burst out with applause and shouts of ‘bravo!’ She turned beet red, and dropped her scouring pad, and stood with her mouth open
15. There's nothing unusual about vultures scouring the land for prey
16. Bill is too busy to help me out and I am thrown back on scouring my way through recipes on the internet
17. The wind buffeted the building, whistling through an invisible gap in the window frame and making an eerie noise, high pitched, floating above the scouring of the rain
18. scouring the surrounding area
19. scouring the tavern with his eyes, looking for the lucky
20. scouring the island for any sign of life
21. Can be helpful when horses are scouring or have diarrhoea and helping reduce fever
22. Their gentle astringent action makes them ideal for animals prone to scouring and horses can be seen to select rosehips happily when given the opportunity
23. She handed me some gloves, some scouring powder and a bucket of water, and I went to
24. The guards are scouring the sett for her now
25. Slowly, majestically, the storm's forces built to a crescendo high above the Brockenhurst Mountains, the sheets of rain scouring the vegetation from the land below, stripping all life from its bedrock, driving even the smallest ant from its nest
26. And as the once magnificent tree screamed a last, dying protest, the wind rushed into the immense scar it left, scouring away every trace of life
27. "We've had the Fairies scouring the forest and they've found nothing
28. Evans spent six years scouring newly uncovered documents (Venona files, FBI records, informants’ testimony, and heretofore secured
29. thieves scouring through the Plate’s discarded trash for anything
30. 45 You have made us as the off scouring and refuse in the midst of the people
31. scouring for any structural weakness to the barrier, one of the
32. scouring his world for a perfect transfer, it seemed that the Earth was over populated and there weren’t many areas untouched by the
33. Bob was busy scouring the site with his faithful torch which threw a red glow over the remaining debris
34. It slowly overpowered the hissing howl of the ever-rising wind that blew sand from every hoof that beat upon the ground, scouring the undisturbed sand into a motion like unto an undulating sea of sand that blew steadily north toward the ever faster moving line of chariots
35. scouring erosion gullies in the ashes as the downpour increased
36. scouring the undisturbed sand into a motion like unto an undulating sea of sand that blew
37. constantly reinventing itself, scouring the horizon for the only
38. buy the crew into scouring the landscape for signs of survivors,
39. that they’d grown used to scouring the land for clues
40. Jack began scouring
41. They continued their deep search to deck seven, opening every container, scouring every room, but they still found nothing
42. The image of soldiers or actual technicians scouring the corridors trying to find the saboteur who'd knocked out their servers frightened him
43. Calvin knew the Major probably had soldiers scouring the ship to recover any soldiers Pellew’s men had previously incapacitated, and he probably had men on their way to control the corridors around engineering, so his chances weren’t great—but Calvin had little choice
44. deprived as they are of the prison of the flesh, nothing is hidden before it; scouring the depths of consciousness to deploy, in its entire monstrosity, the ferrous nuances of regrets
45. On the floor lay the prisoner, still alive but faceless, searching and scouring the floor for his missing face
46. Lil’ B and E had been scouring the streets for hours
47. Both Matthew and Sarah were scouring the shops, looking for that special gift for their respective boyfriend and girlfriend, not to mention the rest of their family
48. finding an individual I liked, then scouring the profile just to
49. We have two dozen men scouring the site of the abductions but I have another idea
50. 'We should have sighted parties scouring the woods for us
1. She also scours the local papers to see if there are any visiting celebrities, but they rarely attend and almost never perform
2. This type of assistant scours the real estate pages looking for
3. He sucked acidic urine and scours into his lungs and
4. “He scours the trees like he knows and his mouth curves at one corner in a slow smile
5. The current swirls around the piers of a bridge and scours the mud out from underneath the pillars, leaving a depression filled only with water
6. This neighborhood was once an active port, but now feels, as she scours the dark, like a game preserve for muggers
7. Don Quixote, a Spanish gentleman, has his head turned as a result of excessive reading of romances, and, attended by his fat, vulgar squire, Sancho Panza, scours Spain, righting wrongs and rescuing fair damsels, in the fashion of the knights of old