Sentence examples for in scraps of from inspiring English sources

Their formations are buried in legend or preserved in scraps of distant history -- nothing you can sink your eyes into.

This is a music of wit and reference, and in pieces like "Sweet Lorraine" and "Solar," both Mr. Barron and Mr. Drummond threw in scraps of other tunes.

These were accounts of sightings and encounters with the Old Leather Man, dressed in scraps of the tanned material that gave him his moniker.

Eventually we locate one by the crowd outside: boys selling roasted chickpeas wrapped in scraps of newspaper, and tipsy fishermen who shout good-natured greetings.

"I spent many a torrid hour dressing it in scraps of rag and then lovingly undressing it again," he recalls: I performed mock operations on it, too, pretending to remove its tonsils, or, more excitingly, its appendix.

Early in the 16th century beggars in Sevilla (Seville) began to pick up discarded cigar butts, shred them, and roll them in scraps of paper (Spanish papeletes) for smoking, thus improvising the first cigarettes.

The migrants gathered in their hundreds in the scraps of woodland outside Melilla and organised mass assaults on the city's perimeter.

"I just read magazines in my scraps of time," another said.

Wrap your rock's presents in small scraps of gift wrap and put under the tree.

Any time you notice a gap, push in smaller scraps of stuffing through the chicken wire or from above.

In one corner, scraps of damp, moldy bread lie in a pile.