If one saved cheese-parings, the other would go without cheese at all, and be content with dry bread.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
From the door we could sometimes see them on the lake shore, and every evening at twilight they would steal up shyly to eat the potato and apple parings.
"A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories"
William Long
Spread top with dressing and sprinkle with thin parings cut from round red radishes finely chopped.
"The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes"
Lewis Webb Hill Rena S. Eckman