Crossword-Solution: SCRAG 5 letters, 74 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Pray continue your history," said I to the jockey, "only please to do so in a language which we can understand, and first of all interpret the sentence with which you began it." "I told you that my grandfather was a shorter," said the jockey, "by which is meant a gentleman who shortens or reduces the current coin of these realms, for which practice he was scragged, that is, hung by the scrag of the neck.

One need not search to-day for the pool where the lynx-eyed John Todd, "the oldest herd on the Pentlands," watched from behind the low scrag of wood the stranger collie come furtively to wash away the tell-tale stains of lamb's blood.

What! Shall one ask in vain at an English inn for an honest chop or steak? Again and again has my appetite been frustrated with an offer of mere sinew and scrag.

The governor having shown him everything--the yards, the workshops, and the underground cells--pointed to a part of the building, and said, “I need not take your Lordship there; it is the quartier des tantes.”--“Oh,” said Lord Durham, “what are they!”--“The third sex, my Lord.” “And they are going to scrag Theodore!” said la Pouraille, “such a pretty boy! And such a light hand! such cheek! What a loss to society!” “Yes, Theodore Calvi is yamming his last meal,” said le Biffon.

Viney to boil two pounds of scrag-end of the neck for your dinners to-morrow, and I can have some of the broth.