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  • The ogre was entirely out of sight; only the broken branches and skuff-marks on the ground showed where he had gone.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • The ogre was entirely out of sight; only the broken branches and skuff-marks on the ground showed where he had gone.

    Unicorn Point Anthony, Piers 1989

  • And socialists are the skuff and rabble of humanity.

    Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block Burt L. Standish 1905

  • After giving his breeches-knees a skuff with his loof, to dad off the stoure, he came, right foot foremost, to the counter side, while the laddies were dighting their brows, and stowing away the webs upon their ends round about, saying, "Maister Wauch, how have ye the conscience to send hame such a piece o 'wark as that coat to ony decent man?

    The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • After giving his breeches-knees a skuff with his loof, to dad off the stoure, he came, right foot foremost, to the counter side, while the laddies were dighting their brows, and stowing away the webs upon their ends round about, saying, "Maister Wauch, how have ye the conscience to send hame such a piece o 'wark as that coat to ony decent man?

    The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

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