38 adjectives to describe scrambles

The brakes jarred down, and the train came to a sudden stop that sent many of the passengers m a mad scramble forward.

Everyone was filled with the desire to make the most of these last few days; there was a frantic scramble to do the things that had been talked of all summer, but which had been crowded out by other things, and especially there was a busy taking of pictures of favorite councilors and best friends.

Well, Verbruggen having been taken out of the dramatic lists "most of her parts," as Colley chronicles, "were, of course, to be disposed of, yet so earnest was the female scramble for them, that only one of them fell to the share of Mrs. Oldfield, that of Leonora in 'Sir Courtly Nice'; a character of good plain sense, but not over elegantly written.

Suddenly there was an eager scramble, a cloud of dust, a swift impression of dim ghostlike figures.

There was a hasty scramble of a dinner at a restaurant near Victoria.

But the spectacle of wide-spread popular demoralization, of selfish scramble for plunder, and of feeble administration at the centre of government, weighed upon him heavily."

On the present occasion, what would have been, without his guiding hand, a mere unscientific scramble, took on something of the impressive formality of the National Sporting Club.

A year or two later her father died, and as she was the only child over whom her mother could exercise any control, the report of her death was successfully impressed upon the truant officer, so that she might be put to work unhindered to help the family in its desperate scramble for food, a scramble in which she took part with vivid earnestness.

Not in angry declamation and wordy debate, in threats of secession and cries for coercion, amid the clash of party-politics, the windy declamation of blatant politicians, or the dirty scramble for office, is the destruction of the dynasty of King Cotton to be looked for.

It must produce a disreputable scramble for the public money, by the conflict which is inseparable from such a system between local and individual interests and the general interest of the whole.

At last, after a long, downward scramble, I found myself on the shore, and then I looked back at the cliff and at the irregular little town.

A feeble yet dexterous scramble on the sill resulted in something dropping into the room.

A filthy scramble left him smeared and disheveled on the summit.

He was shown the chicken-yardfull of gawky, half-grown chickens shedding their down and growing their feathersand forgot his feet in the fascination of scattering grain to them and watching their fluttering scrambles.

"Imagine the horrible, vulture-like scramble of capitalism to exploit that dyke of gold!

A heavy crashing in the underbrush not a dozen rods away sent Wabi in a hurried scramble for his perch.

The politics of the time were sordid, and consisted mainly of an ignoble scramble for office.

He is not only irritated with Limericks for causing a mean money-scramble; he is also partly irritated with Limericks for being Limericks.

There had been a miserable scramble for this inheritance, she reflected, and she was glad the struggle was over.

There was one hideous yell, a muffled scramble of an instant's duration, and the big dog lay dead upon the plain!

The very government itself seems an organized scramble, and Congress a boys' debating-club, with the disadvantage of being reported.

A passionate scramble for food, beatings, tears, slumber, a swift transition from one childish ailment to another that kept her forever out of reach of the truant officer.

After a rapid scramble over the polished rocks and snow-beds which skirt the base of the Theodule glacier, and wading through some of the streams which flow from it, at that time much swollen by the late rains, the first difficulty was arrived at, in the shape of a precipice about three hundred feet high.

Then he made a sidelong scramble to his feet, and succeeded in dodging the blow with which Jaynes welcomed him back.

When he came up out of the coulee he was in the shadow of the peak, and Iskwao had already disappeared in her skyward scramble.

38 adjectives to describe  scrambles