Quotes About Scouring

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Everyone thinks you've been kidnapped, he said. We've been scouring the ship. When Coach Hedge finds out- oh, gods, you've been here all night? Frank! Annabeth's ears were as red as strawberries. We just came down here to talk. We fell asleep. Accidentally. That's it. Kissed a couple of times, Percy said. Annabeth glared at him. Not helping!

The world was full of collectors, scouring the earth for pieces of themselves.

I were better to be eaten to death with rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

On the other hand the usual flat whisk is awkward for tall, narrow pots, and it, too, is weak at scouring into corners. The spiral cream whip ... is a little better at reaching out of the way spots, but it defies firm handling. If anything ever sticks to the pot, you will feel as if you are working with a wet noodle.

When their bodies had finished scouring for gaps in the door, their souls rose up. When their fingernails had scratched at the wood and in some cases were nailed into it by the sheer force of desperation, their spirits came toward me, into my arms, and we climbed out of those shower facilities, onto the roof and up, into eternity's certain breadth. They just kept feeding me. Minute after minute. Shower after shower.

Alien Investigation and Removal agents, also known as A.I.R., were scouring the area, meticulously searching between every blade of brittle grass, every grain of dirt.

drawers, searching through them before pulling

Searching is not finding.

These summer storms would be hatched in a nest of cumulus clouds in the Albanian mountains and ferried rapidly across to Corfu by a warm, scouring wind

She pretended his eyes weren't scouring her up and down, steel wool scraping her skin raw. Her

The exact details of how you practice value investing will vary investor to investor, but the fundamental principle of scouring the world, looking for dollar bills that you can buy for 50 cents or at some big discount - that is universal to value investing.

As king of the underworld, I have more important things to do. Like what, you ask? Well, like coming up with new punishments for evil-doers in the dungeons of Tartaros, for one. And also scouring every inch of this place to make sure that no sons of Zeus—or Poseidon, for that matter (I'm looking at you, Percy Jackson)—sneak into my realm to create yet more havoc.

When blown, a MICLIC sympathetically detonated all the mines in the vicinity, scouring a swath eight yards wide out to the full range of a hundred yards.

You are the treasure custodian, cleaning the moon for me, scouring the sky so the stars would shine bright.