Example Sentences

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Already, on the heights of Montmartre, is a digging and delving; too like a scarping and trenching.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

A terrible scarping wind, whose very breath was bitterness to flesh and blood, blatant and unresting, filled the valley with a strange voice and life.

From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

Soon afterwards, however, nothing could be heard except a furious scratching, the sound of metal scarping at the plaster.

From The Fat and the Thin by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

Upon this mountain the Russians very strongly established themselves, scarping the heights and constructing formidable breastworks behind which to shelter themselves.

From Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Lumley, Savile

The mountain was so steep that our ponies could only ascend by scarping, zigzag fashion.

From By Veldt and Kopje by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)