294 examples of scrawl in sentences

And then?" "He wrote this note for you," and he handed her an envelope with her own name written on it in an uneven, uncertain scrawl.

The scrawl on the paper was meaningless, but at length by close attention he secret writing.

Write, inscribe, scribble, scrawl, scratch.

my chicken, I shall scrawl Just what I fancy as I strike it, Fairies and Fusiliers, and all Old broken knock-kneed thought will crawl Across my verse in the classic way.

It is difficult to conceive how a scrawl of mine should ever stretch across it.

It was a mere hurried scrawl, saying that Allerdyke was just setting off for Hull, in obedience to a call from the police; as Gaffney had nothing to do, would Appleyard make use of him during Allerdyke's absence?

Then comes a letter, brought by the night carrier, from her father (a most dirty, ill-written scrawl signed Robert Evans with his mark), praying he may be excused, as his masts are to be stepped o' Wednesday, and he must take the occasion of a ketch leaving Dartford for Falmouth this day, and at the same time begging her acceptance of a canister of China tea (which is, I learn, become a fashionable dish in London) as a marriage offering.

When I came to transcribe the play, I found myself baffled by the villanous scrawl.

I have killed an hour or two in this poor scrawl.

This letter being very neatly written, I am very unwilling that Emma should club any of her disproportionate scrawl to deface it.

I amwith this long scrawl, but I thought in your exile, you might like a letter.

By the length of this scrawl you will think I have a design upon your optics; but I have writ as large as I could out of respect to themtoo large, indeed, for beauty.

But in the end it did come, in the form of a scrawl from the Weeping Scion himself.

The girl cast a hostile look at the paper and saw that the writing on it was the usual scrawl produced by Cousin Parnelia, hardly legible, and resembling anything rather than her mother's handwriting.

That belonging to M. Galichon must have been made in Rome, for it has this rough scrawl in Michelangelo's hand at the bottom, "Tomao, se questo scizzo non vi piace, ditelo a Urbino."

In due time my scrawl was answered by a most affectionate letter from mamma, to which was added a postscript by my father; and I began to rise wonderfully in my own estimation, in consequence of having letters addressed entirely to myself.

With this vexatiously facetious and laconic scrawl, poor Mr. L. made his way to the Lakes, and in due time was ushered into the Parnassian presence of the author of "Thalaba."

" Gilbert found the note; a hurried scrawl upon half a sheet, of paper, twisted up hastily, and unsealed.

It was not until the fourth or fifth time of reading that Sir George made out the following scrawl: 'Take to Fishwick, Castle, Marlboro'.

He had no paper, and, given paper, he had no ink; but falling back on what he had, he lugged out his snuff-box and pen-knife, and holding the box in the ray of light, and himself as still as the road permitted, he set to work, laboriously and with set teeth, to scrawl on the bottom of the box the message of which we know.

Those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble to a man.' (Pope).

Let's Finis scrawl,

did anybody ever see such a scrawl as the man writes?

All the streets resemble each other; the houses have only three or four windows; and not a spot, scrawl, or crack is to be seen on the walls, which are as smooth and white as a sheet of paper.

Formosa was so far away eastwarda crinkled line drawn faintly with a fine blue pencil, showing as an artistic scrawl on the canvass of the low cloudswe could hardly claim when the sketch of the distant land faded from view, that we had seen Japan.

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