Men would make a scratch team at the sound of his voice, just to be led by him as captain.

"Just watch him scratch gravel.

The second night, as I lay sleepless and desperate on the strip of dirty matting that served as bed, I heard a scratch-scratching at the grated slit of a window, and presently a slender stick was inserted into the cell.

By nature as cheerful a gossip as ever wore a scratch wig and lived to be inquisitive, he sat mum through the evening, and barely listened while the landlord talked big of his guest upstairs, his curricle and fashion, the sums he lost at White's, and the plate in his dressing-case.

" "Yes, she is a real scratch cat.

" A mass of snowy blossom it was against the April sky, and Lewisham, straggling for itit was by no means the most accessiblesaw with fantastic satisfaction a lengthy scratch flash white on his hand, and turn to red.

The king, angry that his truce should thus have been broken, and sorry for the evident grief of the father, ordered a sumptuous funeral for the deceased, and commanded that a stone should be placed upon her grave, bearing the epitaph: "'Scratch-foot, daughter of Henning, the cock, the best of the hen tribe.

Then the man at the bat reached first on a scratch hit and a fumble, and there seemed to be a small rift in the clouds which had lowered over the heads of the Yale freshmen so long.

This we accomplished without accident, save for the few scratches incident to such work.

I had to borrow some at the farmand they were the poorest scratch lot you ever saw.

I was on the scratch mark, the farthest back I had yet been.

The financial authority which thus accrued to me became of not unimportant influence a little later when the second scratch ministry broke up under the financial depression, with gold at 16 premium, the scandals of the bank affair oozing into publicity, and insurrection breaking out in Sicily and Tuscany, with movements pending in the Romagna, where the spring had come late and so saved the country from a great disaster.

every tree, Villa, or cottage, lurking among rocks Throughout the landscape; tuft, stone scratch minute All that the traveller sees when he is there.

It is got through somehow by scratch-packs, so to saymen picked up from the roads, aged men who cannot do much, but whose energy puts the younger fellows to shame, lads paid far beyond the value of the work they actually accomplish.

It is well to have scratch paper handy and make outlines for your answers to long questions.

(The chestnut is at length brought up to the scratch snorting, but again flinches, and retires with his rider.)

It was perhaps a little unfortunate that Aïda should have been given on the night of the Guards' march through London, for the parade of the Pharaoh's scratch soldiery suffered badly by comparison.

Jane had cut her finger and the tiniest scratch upsets poor Auntie terribly.

Then there is the goose-grass (Galium aparine), variously called goose-bill, beggar's-lice, scratch-weed, and which has been designated blind-tongue, because "children with the leaves practise phlebotomy upon the tongue of those playmates who are simple enough to endure it," a custom once very general in Scotland.

Or stones of ten pound weight i'th' kidneys, Through ease and ugly dyets may be gather'd; I'le feed ye up my self Sir, I'le prepare ye, You cannot fight, unless the Devil tear ye, You shall not want provocations, I'le scratch ye, I'le have thee have the tooth-ach, and the head-ach.

At the end of five days she took a warm bath and, while she still remained in the hut and plied the scratching-stick on her head, was privileged to feed herself with her own hands.

Scratch-tch-ch!

Our men, in their scratch costumes of dirty, muddy khaki, with their various assorted headdresses of woollen helmets, mufflers and battered hats, were a light-hearted, open, humorous collection as opposed to the sombre demeanour and stolid appearance of the Huns in their grey-green faded uniforms, top boots, and pork-pie hats.

" We ate a scratch dinner with the Daveys in their room and started forth.

"The three of them got together a scratch feed, and Tassoc told me all about the trouble whilst we were at table.