One day a slight scratching was heard.

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

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.

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.

A yelping howl, an impetuous scratching and struggling of the furious mass that he attempted to inclose in his arms, told Teddy that instead of the hunter, he had pounced down upon an innocent, sleeping bear!

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

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.

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.

THE PHEASANT-HEN Well, then, in your perpetual scratching, what is it you are looking for? CHANTECLER

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

His only answer was a vacant stare at the pit of my stomach, followed by a slow scratch-scratching on the police blotter.

As I still held her fast, she was silent, till the unnoticed scratching had been two or three times repeated, and then half-whispered, "Shall I tell them to come in?"

Portions of its precincts are covered with gravestones; the remainder has been "considerably damaged" of late, according to the belief of one of the churchwardens, by the vicious scratching of a number of irreverent hens, whose owners will be prosecuted if they do not look better after them.

In the taut torment of those long-drawn minutes a sound of circumspect scratching was enough to bring Victor to his feet in one startled bound.

It was scarcely any wonder if rats had congregated behind the worm-eaten wainscot, to scare nervous listeners with their weird scratchings and scramblings.

Instead of spending all his time and strength in a constant scratching for the food of to-day, how soon will he have a blanket of skins, and a hut, and a garden in which he is preparing to-day the food of future months.

Reasoning thus he caught a sound as of rustling paper, then a faint scratching.

I was alone in my own room that evening when a gentle scratching on the window-crystal entreated admission.

Perhaps two hours before dawn he started up at sound of a humble scratching at the open door flap of his tent.