Meaning of scare-line | Babel Free

Examples

“But it presently appears that a black cat was the only creature killed outright, and that the scare-line was merely a playful allusion to the extraordinary vitality that fable says all pussies have.”

“Unfortunately this isn't a scare-line, but a frozen truth, and it behooves every druggist to provide himself with ice-economizers.”

“I knew for instance, sitting at my desk, just how many extra papers I could sell with a scare-line on a police scandal.”

“Fry are collected from sandy regions with gear that consist of a piece of cloth 3 m x 1.2 m and 3 m of rope as a scare-line, with palmyra leaves tied to it at short intervals.”

“At Ant Atoll near Ponape in the eastern Caroline Islands the palm frond scare-line is used to catch schools of kawa kawa (Euthynnus affinis) which occasionally enter the lagoon and swim along the edge in shallow water.”

“The net is kept open by two men, while the fry are driven into it using a 30-60 m long scare-line made up of rope and palm leaves.”

“Did it make any sense, he asked, concluding with administration's favorite scare-line (first used by Rice), “for the world to wait. . . for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud?””

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