" "Eh bien" said Mr. P., as he scratched his head for a moment.

I was most afraid of the women, who with their long claws would have scratched my eyes out, and I knew they would not spare the girl.

After scratching his ear with one of his hind feet, and his side with the other, he turned and walked deliberately from our sight into the forest.

The next day he scratched his face worse and climbed on the house.

Somebody scratched a match and lit a pipe.

" "Forsooth," quoth Roger, scratching his chin, "Shallowford village lieth but a bowshot through the brush yonderyet, forsooth, a man shall eat little there, methinks, these days.

Thus the duckling hastens to the pond and into the water, while the chicken scratches the ground and the young swallow catches its food upon the wing.

If any one is talking to him he looks the other way, slips down until his shoulders occupy the throne, scratches his leg, and keeps up a running comment of insult"Aye," "Oh," "Of course," "Certainly," "Ugh," "Listen to him now!"

He had a habit of scratching his forehead with one finger, which denoted thought.

And Jeannette tore her dress to rags, And scratched her hands and face; But of her dirty little lamb She couldn't find a trace.

If I were able to deliver a dozen addresses on the subject in this historic Hall and with this indulgent audience I would not scratch even the surface.

You sing to the sun and scratch up the earth.

" "That's a bit orkard," ses Sam, scratching his 'ead.

"All kinds," answered Jerry, nonchalantly scratching his stubby beard.

"Here," quoth the Bailiff, scratching his long nose, "here was a fool, methinks, for that we are alive.

"I will scratch your arm with this medicine and the smallpox will stay away from you.

He rarely speaks but makes a noise like a mouse, scratching his paper.

All your woolen things, which you always say scratch your skin.

He flung the remnant at my face, so that the ragged end scratched my cheek.

" "Ya-as, suh,"the old fellow scratched his black jaw."I

The beautiful Fanny, who seemed to be the queen of the day, in trying to pick a rose, had scratched her finger, which caused much commotion.

Then he made a charge on that boy, and tossed him through the tent, and I looked through the hole, and saw the boy scratching gravel towards town.

But since he did not understand, they scratched a few words on a thin sheet of lead, and rolling it up like a piece of paper gave it to a diver to carry across under water by night.

IV.Love in the Forest Furiously did his horse bear him on through the thorns and briars that tore his clothes and scratched his body, so that you could have followed the track of his blood on the grass.

Spending that night at Wuthering Heights on an old-fashioned couch that filled a recess, or closet, in a disused chamber, I found, scratched on the paint many times, the names "Catherine Earnshaw," "Catherine Heathcliff," and again "Catherine Linton."