scrape

That rascally cousin of mine has got me into a sorry

scrape; and you see my tail is frozen fast in the ice

here. Can’t you do something to help me out? ”

I could scrape the colour

from the petal,

From a brief note to his sister, dated November 5, we learn that he was

in a scrape, but in "no immediate peril," and from the lines, "Remember

him, whom Passion's power" (_vide ante_, p. 67), we may infer that he

While I pair off with Mandy Biddle,

And scrape, scrape, scrape goes the corn-stalk fiddle.

And its leathern sheath lie o'ergrown with a blue crust,

Then I shall scrape together my earnings;

For, you see, in the churchyard Jacynth reposes, 870

Transported hear'st thy children all

Scrape and blow and squeak and squall;

And while old Otter's steeple rings,