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«I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.»
Author: Bryan Adams
| Keywords:
in trouble, pit, rude, scrape, scraped, scrapes, scrape by, scraping, the pit, The Police
«I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he didn't have that kind of dough. But he eventually scraped it up.»
«I felt in my life very suffocated and smothered by my circumstance. Your life becomes what you believe. I was living in a house with my mom and my younger brother and we were all sharing rent and wasn't really making rent. Didn't get to eat, I scrape»
Author: Jewel
(Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter)
| About:
Life
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circumstance, mom, rent, scrape, scraped, scrapes, scrape by, scraping, sharing, smothered, smothering, smothers, suffocate, suffocated, suffocates, suffocating, younger
«And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, / When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; / And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house: / Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house: / And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall; / Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days: / And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house; / Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city: / And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place: / And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.»
«And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered; / Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house; it is unclean.»
«Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.»
Author: Gore Vidal
| About:
Television
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barrel, desperately, scraped, scrapes, scrape by, scraping
«Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out»
«The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
angle, angles, angling, contingencies, contingency, heartily, lawyer, qualification, qualifications, qualifies, qualify, qualifying, scrape, scraped, scrapes, scrape by, scraping, throws
«I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, / And putting apples wondrous ripe, / Into a cider- press's gripe.»
«It is difficult to be called a Muslim; if one is truly a Muslim, then he may be called one. First, let him savor the religion of the Prophet as sweet; then, let his pride of his possessions be scraped away.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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scraped
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