| 1. | But the pantry was empty every scrap of food had gone. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 2. | Defarge gave into his anxious hand, an open scrap of paper. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | He had got a scrap of paper and was folding it into a notebook. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 4. | I carry about me, not a scrap of writing openly referring to it. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 5. | 'Bayton,' said the undertaker, looking from the scrap of paper to Mr. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | 'Only to ask a question,' said the other, pointing to the scrap of paper. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | Holmes took up the scrap of paper, a fac-simile of which is here reproduced. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 8. | I suddenly remembered the scrap in the small hours outside my state-room door. - from My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 9. | Fighters--those who really enjoy a scrap occasionally--are invariably Musculars. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 10. | "Funny scraps one does overhear," murmured Tommy. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 11. | Broken scraps for holy men that beg from door to doo. - from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
| 12. | 'I am afraid you have got yourself into a scrape there, Mr. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 13. | Then chairs began to creak and shoes to scrape upon the carpet. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 14. | The afternoon papers puffed scraps of news under big headlines. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 15. | Hitz, "they had one, and were trying to scrape another two up.. - from 2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut |
| 16. | There was seldom much over, but I managed to scrape along somehow. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 17. | Now get out of the scrape yourself.. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 18. | Now get out of this scrape if you can. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |