scrounging

Example Sentences

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The pig followed it, scrouging under the fence, and squealing intermittently.

From The Corner House Girls at School by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)

It was a proud Moment when he eased in the $7.60 to T. W. Fishberry, who told him to keep on scrouging and some day he would own a share in the Building & Loan.

From Ade's Fables by McCutcheon, John T.

All the station was scrouging round us by this time—pawters & clarx and refreshmint people and all.

From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Though there were crowds all along the route followed by the wedding party, there was no scrouging, no shoving, no fighting, no disorderly scramble, no unseemly congestion about the chapel where the ceremony took place.

From Europe Revised by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

She had become hardened to pushing and scrouging, so that the struggle to get a seat in one of the fifty or sixty race trains leaving Waterloo or Victoria left her comparatively calm.

From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir