"Scrapper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Born 'ungry, I reckon. But filled as much as you could fill me, bless your 'eart. I aren't never goin' to forget that, Gov'nor—no fear. An eater and a scrapper I am, sir; and I'll scrap for you, sir, while there's a bloomin' breff left in my blessed body! Gimme the tip wot kind of work I can do for you, Gov'nor, will you? I want to get them two 'arf-crowns off my conscience ...
— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces • Thomas W. Hanshew
... replied Chebec. "He is Scrapper the Kingbird, as of course you know. The rest of us always feel ...
— The Burgess Bird Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess
... once," began Overland reminiscently. "It was Toledo Blake. He was a kind of bum middleweight scrapper when he was workin' at it. When he wasn't trainin' he was a kind of locoed heavyweight—stewed most of the time. It was one winter night in Toledo. Me and him went into one of them 'Come-In-Stranger' rescue joints. 'Course, they was singin' hymns and prayin' ...
— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... "I'm going to pick my freshmen next time. Who'd take a kid with a smile like his to be a scrapper? He's got the nicest smile in college. Why, he looks meek ...
— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks
... a scrapper when it comes to his rations. He reminds me of an English sparrow. He's always right in there wangling for his own. He will bully and browbeat if he can, and he will coax and cajole if he can't. It would be "Hi sye, ...
— A Yankee in the Trenches • R. Derby Holmes |
