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Examples

  • Domaly Spiced Cranberry Sugar Scrub is made with Cranberry Seeds, shea butter and cane sugar.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Anne-Marie 2007

  • Domaly Spiced Cranberry Sugar Scrub is made with Cranberry Seeds, shea butter and cane sugar.

    Domaly Spiced Cranberry Sugar Scrub Anne-Marie 2007

  • The boy flushed at the name Scrub, but he recovered himself immediately.

    Ted Strong's Motor Car Edward C. Taylor

  • All its people were poor, for their fields were barren, and they had little trade; but the poorest of them all were two brothers called Scrub and Spare.

    Granny's Wonderful Chair Frances Browne

  • All its inhabitants were poor, for their fields were barren, and they had little trade; but the poorest of them all were two brothers called Scrub and Spare, who followed the cobbler's craft.

    Good Stories for Holidays Frances Jenkins Olcott 1917

  • All its inhabitants were poor, for their fields were barren, and they had little trade; but the poorest of them all were two brothers called Scrub and Spare, who followed the cobbler's craft.

    Good Stories for Great Holidays 1914

  • It's called Scrub Med, and I confess, I found them because they are local and when I was in nursing school we had to get our scrubs from them only ones that had exactly that OHSU green.

    And two more! Susan Palwick 2007

  • On the conquest of the town by the Anglo-Saxons it received the name of Scrobbes - byrig; that is to say Scrub-burgh, or a town in a scrubby or bushy district, and, in the Saxon Chronicle, Scrobbesbyrig-scire is mentioned, now corrupted or polished into Shropshire.

    Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848

  • But, Amy P [not my one] goes "Scrub" and Mr Webbe said "Oh as in dirty etc?"

    fuct-up-girl Diary Entry fuct-up-girl 2003

  • Once or twice one of the boldest of his class addressed him as "Scrub," but he felt safe in ignoring the insult.

    Brightly Burning Lackey, Mercedes 2000

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