| The Prime Minister loses no time going on radio and television to say that, but when it comes to orders like this one, the Government scrimshank. |
| At the same time I determined to see you in Jericho before I let you scrimshank out of a wedding present, as you did in your cousin's case. |
| Actually, I paid nearly a hundred pounds to a dirty little scrimshank who thought he was doing something dishonorable. |
| What the deuce was I about when I married one of these scurvy, feckless, futile, scrimshank, scallywag men? |
| For Peter was an undersized, slum-bred Londoner, who, with the minimum chest measurement, had just contrived to scrimshank. |
