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Usage examples of scrub.

The ferret was nosing around the front wheel Jake Ambler had so carefully scrubbed down, looking like it was about ready to lift its leg, if ferrets do that.

The luckless shaven-haired monkey or rat, guinea pig or dog bent on renouncing the laboratory world for ever found itself opening its eyes on it once more from the antiseptically scrubbed floor of its cage, its drinking vessel freshly charged, its dressings ingeniously barred from investigation, its recovery a command - even, if necessary, its benefactor would minister long hours overtime to make sure it was carried out.

Barnacle had naturally tried to bite the hand that scrubbed him, he had meanly interposed the brush, so Barnacle had broken a tooth.

In the hallway I pulled off the pasteboard mask, moistened a piece of cotton in the benzine and scrubbed off the bits of adhesive which had stuck to my face and forehead.

In the end, she dismounted, looping the reins over the branches of a clump of scrub in case Bounder had plans of his own.

They rode several miles to a little lake and a scrub of brigalow, and, dismounting, soon had exciting sport.

Targinie bull when he was making straight for a brigalow scrub, as try to turn the mind of Robina Daring.

Behind rose the grey-brown dunes of the Island, and close to the shore was a ragged brigalow scrub.

But Buli the Whirlwind--for he it was who made the warriors and their gins to run fast through the scrub, who laid low the brigalow trees, and carved spears therefrom, who with his weapons of war swept like a tempest over the herds of white men, and killed the white men in the camps they had made, therefore was he named the Whirlwind--he, Whirlwind, would swear now before the sister of the Pleiades, Cloud-Daughter, that he and his warriors, old men, and gins, would obey the word of Cloud-Daughter till, after many days marching through the scrubs, they should reach Maianbar the Deep Tank.

There was Aylward squatting cross-legged in his shirt, while he scrubbed away at his chain-mail brigandine, whistling loudly the while.

David Silver was a plump young man with a pink scrubbed complexion, gold-rimmed pince-nez and his hair glossy with brilliantine and parted down the centre so that his scalp gleamed in the division like the scar of a sword cut He deferred courteously to his Uncle Aaron, and went to pains to make certain that both his guests were comfortable, that their chairs were arranged with the light from the windows falling from behind and that each of them had an ashtray beside him and a cup of tea in his hand.

Up the slope of the mountain the scrub is less, and massed burrawangs hang out their fronds as if to repel the wanderer.

I ran through the hootch, slamming open the back screen door, Mai was there, squatting in the Vietnamese fashion, scrubbing at a wet flight suit with one hand.

In the smoggy gloaming, he went through the brickwork warrens of Griss Fell, past householders scrubbing their porches of the grit of machinofacture and graffitied coils, chatting from window to window across the little streets.

I remember he had a fight with a little bull-calf, about a week old, that came in with a wild heifer, and Aileen made as much of his pluck as if it had been a mallee scrubber.