"It is nothing,a scratch, a mere scratch, I give you my word, mademoiselle," he began, but Wilhelm unceremoniously removed the handkerchief, showing a torn and bleeding hand which must have been exquisitely painful.

"It's just a little scratch," said Bull good-naturedly.

He had a slight scratch on his hand and a bruise on his head received from flattening himself out on the floor.

He got a few sharp scratches, but was vastly pleased with himself when he landed safely on the ground.

With a feeling of vague alarm, I strike a light, hurriedly, and look; but can see nothing, save a tiny scratch.

And no one was doing business as usual more composedly than a wee tot trudging along to school with a nasty scratch from a glass splinter on her chubby cheek.

Write, inscribe, scribble, scrawl, scratch.

I found the way to his heart by frequent scratching of his huge head and an occasional bone.

One day a slight scratching was heard.

You don't mind if I do a little scratching on your hoof with my knife, do you?" Nils Holgersson had just finished, when he heard the sound of voices.

"We're going back to work again after I've bandaged Jack's finger, for he gave it an ugly scratch when handling the gun, he doesn't himself know just how.

The office was disturbed, for the next quarter of an hour, by no sound but the rapid scratching of Mr. Roundjacket's pen, which glided over the paper at a tremendous rate, and did terrible execution among plaintiffs, executors, administrators, and assigns.

There were some rude scratchings on it with charcoal, which I read with difficulty.

At last a queer, indescribable scratching and scraping came up out of the bowels of the earth.

The jeweler, who had wound EDWIN DROOD'S watch for him on the day of the dinner, promptly identified the timepiece by the innumerable scratches around the keyhole; Mr. BUMSTEAD, though at first ecstatic with the idea that the seal-ring was a ferule from an umbrella, at length allowed himself to be persuaded into a gloomy recognition of it as a part of his nephew, and MONTGOMERY was detained in custody for further revelations.

All my numbers are intact, barring two or three insignificant scratches.

A loud scratch sounded sharply in the room.

Between these centres of population run railways indeed, telegraph wires, telephone connections, tracks of various sorts, but to the European eye these are mere scratchings on a virgin surface.

"That's cutting it pretty fine to compare microscopic scratches on the heads of small nails.

I rose, made two steps forward, and then sat down with a groan of pain; my left ankle was badly sprained, in addition to various minor scratches and bruises.

The passports, mysterious scratches in Turkish, did not arrive until the last minute, and with them came the chief, the great Bedri Bey himself a strong man and a mysterious one, pale, inscrutable, with dark, brooding eyes and velvety manners, calculated to envelop even a cup of coffee and a couple of boiled eggs in an air of sinister romance.

And it was full time that I should do so, for Ned, having put a ball through the head of the dam, was now manfully battling with her two cubs; the poor fellow was sore pressed, streaming with blood from numberless scratches, and almost in a state of nature, for the sharp claws of the cubs had literally undressed him by piecemeal.

He bore on his back numerous bleeding scratches, ample evidence of the truth of his story.

Dead half a thousand years, yet across the gulf of time I hear the painful scratching of her quill as she sends "Goddis blyssyng" to her son in London, and tells him all her motherly gossip and makes the rough life of far-off Tudor England live for ever.

If they were borne by icebergs, then they were once part of a glacier and some of them will probably show the flat surfaces with parallel scratches which are found on glacier-borne stones.