Sentence example with the word 'leavings'

leavings

afterglow, chaff, dregs, gash, offal, refuse, rest, scrap iron, slag, sweepings, waste matter

Last update: October 16, 2015


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I well know that these Crappoes of Frenchmen are but poor devils in the fishery; sometimes lowering their boats for breakers, mistaking them for Sperm Whale spouts; yes, and sometimes sailing from their port with their hold full of boxes of tallow candles, and cases of snuffers, foreseeing that all the oil they will get won't be enough to dip the Captain's wick into; aye, we all know these things; but look ye, here's a Crappo that is content with our leavings, the drugged whale there, I mean; aye, and is content too with scraping the dry bones of that other precious fish he has there.   [Please select]

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When the sated diners retire from this gruel, only insignificant leavings remain.   [Please select]

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He had done practically no hunting at all, preferring to trail Finn on his hunting expeditions, and fare sumptuously upon Finn's leavings.   [Please select]

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"Eat out o' my right lug," says the Black Bull, "and drink out o' my left lug, and set by your leavings."   [Please select]

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These relics are obviously, for the most part, table-leavings, broken victuals.   [Please select]

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You took my leavings, crumb and bone, And stuck by me through thick and thin-- You were my kin.   [Please select]

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For generations we've given them the leavings of food, and holes to live in.   [Please select]

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