" "Nor is that all," said the Brahmin, "as the judges assign the victory according to certain rules and precedents, the reasons of which are known only to themselves, if known at all, and which are often sufficiently whimsicalas sometimes a small scratch in the head avails more than a disabling blow in the body.

At a moment when the shadow of world-war was over the country like a pair of black wings lowering Mrs. Harry Ross, who swooned at the sight of blood from a penknife scratch down the hand of her son, but yawned over the head-line statistics of the casualties at Verdun, lifted a lid from a pot that exuded immediate savory fumes, prodded with a fork at its content, her concern boiled down to deal solely with stew.

The man SALLY wanted to catch, and had caught That she wanted from others to snatch, and had snaught Was the one that she now liked to scratch, and she scraught

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.

It left a deep scratch behind it.

It was a sort of bivouac a man is not likely to forget in a hurry; not that it makes much of a story, after all,but a trifling scratch will sometimes leave its mark on a man for life.

In the trenches the white portion of St. Leger's army worked like men who feel the whip behind them, and our people succeeded in sending six to the hospital or their last resting-place, without receiving a scratch.

What I scratch out is a German quotation, from Lessing, on the bite of rabid animals; but I remember you don't read German.

The courts and alleys behind even some of the main streets swarm with people who have hardly a whole nail left to scratch themselves with.

Think of the poor old soul trailing about the world, trying to "scratch a living" for herself and her daughter by washing; and having to hurry home from her labour to attend to that sick girl through eleven long years.

These stones, of course, grind, scratch, and polish each other; and in like wise grind, scratch, and polish the rock over which they pass, under the enormous weight of the superincumbent ice.

These stones, of course, grind, scratch, and polish each other; and in like wise grind, scratch, and polish the rock over which they pass, under the enormous weight of the superincumbent ice.

Caw me, caw thee, as Sawney says, and so to it they go, and scratch one another like so many Scotch pedlars.

He considered awhile, with the caution of one who endeavors to lay hold on a small dangerous animal in such a manner that it may not be able either to scratch or to bite him, as I myself have sometimes done with a weasel in England.

I have had my shoulder grazed by a bullet, a simple scratch I have hardly noticed.

Popof escaped without a scratch, Caterna with a slight graze which his wife insists on bathing.

(That's The reason I object to cats They scratch amid their purring.)

She'd trail through the grass to be mown, And call all her children to follow; And scratch up the seeds that were sown, Then, lie in their places and wallow.

XIV In April I commence to scratch and dig in my garden.

They fought during the meal several sharp engagements, from which they emerged without a scratch.

He tried to scratch his leg through his gaiter.

He sucked the blood from the deep scratch, and then forgot the wound in order to gaze again at the body outstretched at his feet.

Merely a scratch.

Scratch the surface.

We all has got our faultswhy, even Mrs. Scraggs isn't free from 'embut you scratch them off the top of Percival and you found a white manthe most trusting little critter in God and man, the kindest-hearted and the best-natured that ever lived.