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If I could tell you how the Convent rises before me as a vision of blessedness -- after life's 'shaky scraw' -- the cool cloisters, the rows of innocent beds, the delicious old garden.

The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895

'Begad, we'd make him wear the grane in raal earnest, and, a foine scraw it would be,' said a third.

Muslin 1892

Having got the erection of Mat's house thus far, they procured a scraw-spade, and repaired with

The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

A scraw-spade is an instrument resembling the letter T, with an iron plate at the lower end, considerably bent, and well adapted to the purpose for which it is intended.

The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

But it’s the do’s and don’ts he has to live with, not the news of the world with that rooster that goes scraw scraw in the movie house down the street.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

But it’s the do’s and don’ts he has to live with, not the news of the world with that rooster that goes scraw scraw in the movie house down the street.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

But it’s the do’s and don’ts he has to live with, not the news of the world with that rooster that goes scraw scraw in the movie house down the street.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

It ought to look beautiful at the start, at least, though one may know it's a shaky scraw. "

The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895