Within a few moments, he had the earth scraped bare and overlaid with pine boughs.

I thought about Muriel, her face scraped bare of anything but hurt.

Is that sheepskin you were scraping completely bare?

Steps sagged; paint peeled; small front lawns were scraped bare by feet and tricycles and plastic wading pools.

Here and there the refrigerative grid showed, scraped temporarily bare by the passage of the pack, giving him slightly improved footing.

When the land was developed for housing in the 1960's, the remaining topsoil was scraped bare.

Every surface, of rock and treated skin, was scraped bare and painted with new, vibrant images.

Threetusk said, "It's as if the land has been scraped bare of everything-even the soil-down to the bedrock.

Parts of the painting have been scraped bare with a wire brush and others flattened with a hot iron.

The landscape had been scraped bare by the towering construction equipment arrayed along the horizon.