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• While we were there a couple of scalies came out and started up the street, but seeing the strikers there they turned around and went back into the saloon.
• In the car department we would repair cars that were disabled and placed in bad order by a bunch of scalies taking the place of striking switchmen, engineers, Firemen, etc.
• In Dallas, women scalies cursed women pickets; four pickets went to jail for disorderly conduct while the scalies went on to work.
• even allowing for the detours through the back roads to avoid the "scalies" who man the highway truck-weight checking stations.
• Approaching Port Augusta I had lights flashed at me, warning that the weighbridge was open. I expected this because the scalies had passed me on the road earlier.
• Scalies are stationed 24/7 on the northern outskirts of the Towers to ensure no one does tries to do a rat-run. The weight limit might soon impact on a large number of jobs.
• About the same size as the valley quail and the Gambel's quail, the scaled quail is often referred to as the "drab shirttail relative." Gray-blue in color (often known locally as "blue quail"), with a slight black tipping of the chest and breast plumage that creates scalelike markings, (hence the nickname "scalies"),
• I sensed the birds' presence, but I had no idea if they were Gambel's or scalies, even though the habitat read scaled quail.
• Then the exploding whirr of wings in the wind — a mixed covey of bobwhites and scalies.
• Scalies are more prone to be in open grass away from cover.