scrappily

No one remembers how it came to be there, but it remains there today, like a monument to lost boyhood, its chain-metal net hanging scrappily from the hoop on a pole stuck firmly into the concrete.

The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011

No one remembers how it came to be there, but it remains there today, like a monument to lost boyhood, its chain-metal net hanging scrappily from the hoop on a pole stuck firmly into the concrete.

The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011

Thanks to these scrappily compelling portraits, this is a rich read.

Archive 2008-05-01 tinylittlelibrarian 2008

Thanks to these scrappily compelling portraits, this is a rich read.

Review: Sullivan's Island tinylittlelibrarian 2008

They sang, rather scrappily, the latest would-be comic songs, as they went through the grim villages.

The Virgin and the Gypsy 2003

The dog yapped scrappily at the traffic zooming by as Wolfe waited patiently for the traffic light to change.

Cyberbooks Bova, Ben, 1932- 1989

The dog yapped scrappily at the traffic zooming by as Wolfe waited patiently for the traffic light to change.

Cyberbooks Bova, Ben, 1932- 1989

Victory was so close for the French, they had only to break through the scratch defence that was scrappily forming, and the day was theirs.

Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard 1981

She seldom wrote, and then but scrappily; and it seemed to him certain that she was forgetting him.

The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly

Well, then, we were put in possession of the Homer of Chapman, and to work we went, turning to some of the "famousest" passages, as we had scrappily known them in Pope's version.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various