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scabby
1. "I find that hard to believe," and painful, the scrounge he tried to save was female, a wasted, scrawny, scabby, blond cackler
2. The fur on his back, patchy and thin, with the scabby skin beneath showing through
3. Yngvild changed the bandages over her mother's eyes, seeing the pair of sunken and scabby pits that had once held eyes just like hers
4. I’m such a stupid scabby sow bug!’
5. see unnatural growth in scabby fissures usually on the eyelid
6. that we cabby's are suffering even more," said the scabby
7. The Wilson felt sorry for the scabby
8. When the light turned green, the scabby continued his
9. While my mother was pondering away, the scabby interrupted
10. about snow," said the scabby
11. then handed them to the scabby
12. "Please, keep the change! You've been a good scabby, and
13. Here, take my card," said the scabby
14. After a short pause, the scabby insisted on carrying the
15. Meanwhile, the scabby had
16. Early that day Toughy set me to cleaning his scabby tent canvas as a punishment for mouthing-off
17. scabby: covered with scabs, short, flat pieces of wood used for binding two pieces of timber that are butted together, or for strengthening timber at weak spots
18. Finally the fleet returned victorious and triumphant to Constantinople, and a few months later died my master, El Uchali, otherwise Uchali Fartax, which means in Turkish "the scabby renegade;" for that he was; it is the practice with the Turks to name people from some defect or virtue they may possess; the reason being that there are among them only four surnames belonging to families tracing their descent from the Ottoman house, and the others, as I have said, take their names and surnames either from bodily blemishes or moral qualities
19. This "scabby one" rowed at the oar as a slave of the Grand Signor's for fourteen years, and when over thirty-four years of age, in resentment at having been struck by a Turk while at the oar, turned renegade and renounced his faith in order to be able to revenge himself; and such was his valour that, without owing his advancement to the base ways and means by which most favourites of the Grand Signor rise to power, he came to be king of Algiers, and afterwards general-on-sea, which is the third place of trust in the realm
20. A younger couple with scabby arms watched her from half inside their tent
21. The houses were scabby with tar paper, the asphalt was littered and potholed, and a group of tough guys gathered on one corner, harassing one another, looking for a fight
22. winked! Then grabbed my scabby fist and tucked the pound note in and gave it a squeeze and another wink, and him gone
23. Ramifications in every direction, crossings, of trenches, branches, goose-feet, stars, as in military mines, coecum, blind alleys, vaults lined with saltpetre, pestiferous pools, scabby sweats, on the walls, drops dripping from the ceilings, darkness; nothing could equal the horror of this old, waste crypt, the digestive apparatus of Babylon, a cavern, ditch, gulf pierced with streets, a titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind mole, the past, prowling through the shadows, in the filth which has been splendor
24. ‘Then, later on, many years further, there was this wild American film director who chased White Whales? The first time he spied me, he took a quick look and…winked! And took out a pound note and did not put it in my sister’s hand, no, but took my own scabby fist and tucked the pound in and gave it a squeeze and another wink, and him gone