Scooping

Arguing with a woman is about as fruitful as scooping up water with a sieve.

In Algiers, dog owners should do their own scooping.

With no utensils in sight, she resorts to scooping it up (and scarfing it down) directly from the pot with hunks of bread.

I observed that a moulding descended obliquely from this entrance down to the bottom, while striae followed the same line, the whole sides indeed being marked by curious scoopings, and intermediate ridgings […]