| 1. | "Funny scraps one does overhear," murmured Tommy. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 2. | Broken scraps for holy men that beg from door to doo. - from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
| 3. | The afternoon papers puffed scraps of news under big headlines. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 4. | His few common tools and various scraps of leather were at his feet and on his bench. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 5. | Through the open window scraps of conversation floated out disjointedly on the night air. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 6. | With scraps o' th' court- it is no contract, none. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | Two or three of the gentlemen sat near him, and I caught at times scraps of their conversation across the room. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 9. | I caught scraps of their conversation, from which I was able only too distinctly to infer the main subject discussed. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |