A deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility)

Usage examples of scraping.

Blood, jiz, afterbirth, a human heart maybe, and she was scraping it off that board as if it were dried bean paste.

Mac Ard had turned in his chair, the legs scraping across the floorboards.

It appeared to be menstrual blood, but she bagged each scraping separately.

Because they were cheap, she said up scraping plates, and later, in the pall fallen over the room, the dark casements and the cold hearth, the only movement a fugitive couple kissing on the silent screen and the unascribed bleat of digestive juices you know what I never understand here?

Finding those knots still as tight as he had left them, Byar pulled at his ankle rope, scraping him across the rocky ground.

In a frenzy of scraping nails and barking, Sadie ran to Cavin, who stood there in his interstellar body armor, regarding Sadie with a hint of amusement curving his mouth as the little dog told him who was boss in the house.

Birds squabbled over the cidery crush milled under by the cart wheels, and winds whisked their burden of scraping, flying leaves, sharpened by frost off the peaks.

The scraping of the mortar as the daylong task of grinding corn began.

Remove the roast from the oven and deglaze the pan with the water, stirring and scraping the bottom.

We got it to where it could take a scraping, read your genetic code, figure all the basics out, then apply that to you when you get digitized in the tube.

For the ragged-trousered man, with practically buttonless blue shirt and greasy e-stained torn coat held together by one string-suspended cloth button, unshaven face carrying beard a half-inch long, and cloth cap on one side of shaggy, thinning half-greyed head, was scraping away, with the broken blade of a dullish looking barley knife, the rounded nubbin of what had once been the end of a loaf of bread.

He drops the durian and kicks it away, frantically scraping his hands on his jacket, trying to get the blood off his palms.

Boba Fett gave a small shrug, his shoulders scraping against the rock behind him.

In contrast, a food mill shears more cells apart by scraping them across the screen as you turn the handle, but it is possible that our precooking technique will permit the use of a food mill without fear of gumminess and produce a perfectly smooth result at the same time.

The catch included also ling, sole, whiting, dab, gurnet, oysters, crabs, whelks, cat-fish, star-fish, and a large amount of ocean scrapings.