It is no wonder then that the urchins scrawled upon the walls of the town, "C.G. is a jolly good feller".

It was scrawled, mis-speltbut there were no tear-blots on the paper: 'SirI am in prisonand where are you?

Coming one day to a small countryside cottage, I saw scrawled over the door, "Good beer sold here."

Some of them bore the inscription "Catherine Earnshaw, her book"; and on the blank leaves and margins, scrawled in a childish hand, was a regular diary.

He read the hastily scrawled note aloud with a tone that failed toward the end.

'Yes, and whose love, as exemplified by Lesbia, is shown in a hurried scrap of a letter scrawled once a weeka bone thrown to a hungry dog,' said her ladyship, bitterly.

Then with an indelible pencil I scrawled below it "Sehr gute Bilde.

Patchinar was evidently a favourite halting-place, for the dingy walls of the guest-room were covered with writing and pencil sketches, the work of travellers trying to kill time, from the Frenchman who warned one (in rhyme) to beware of the thieving propensities of the postmaster, to the more practical Englishman, who, in a bold hand, had scrawled across the wall, "Big bugs here!"

Sylvia opened her envelope, spread out the folded sheet of paper, and read what was scrawled on it, with no realization of the meaning.

Has law no power to stay the erasing pen, and tear off the scrawled label that covers up the IMAGE OF GOD?

In a quaint old edition of "The Spectator," which seems to have been through many sieges, and must have come to grief very early in its existence, if one may judge anything from the various names which are scrawled upon it in different years, reaching back almost to the date of its publication, I find this note in the handwriting of Addison, sticking fast on the reverse side of his portrait.

" "Never mind the blotter, but" He bent closer over the scrawled words, and then with a troubled look: "Did you write this?" "Whyerwhyyes, sir, I'm afraid I did," she stammered.

"Did Mrs. Holbrook positively decline to see me?" he asked again, scarcely able to believe that Marian could have resisted even that brief appeal scrawled upon a scrap of paper.

There was a scrap of paper on this table, with a few lines scrawled upon it in pencil, in my father's hand: 'You have had your choice, either to share a prosperous life with me, or to be shut up like a mad woman.

Most of the graves are indicated only by rough boards, on which are scrawled rudely, with pencil or paint, the names and ages of the dead, and usually also verses from the Bible and scraps of poetry; but among all the inscriptions it is remarkable that there is not a single quotation from the "Book of Mormon."

Glancing swiftly at the signature, she was surprised to see the name "Lily Condor," scrawled loosely at the foot of the note.

Then he dipped another pen into a second bottle, and for some time he scrawled on another sheet of paper.

I saw scrawled across it an indecipherable jumble of words.

"Soon after breakfast she gave herself a lesson in writing with her left hand, stopping often, as she slowly scrawled on, to laugh at her 'quail tracks.'

The title is so scrawled over that it would be impossible to say for certain whether the note of performance referred to the present play, were it not for an allusion casually dropped by the anonymous recorder of a royal visit to Oxford, which not only substantiates the inference to be drawn from the manuscript, but also supplies us with a downward limit of August, 1605.[240]

Some were pretty neatly chiseled in, some very rudely scrawled, and some put on with paint.

Later in the evening, a small packet was brought to her which she found to contain some money in notes wrapped in a slip of paper on which was scrawled a few words.

He was roused from it by the servant bringing a lamp; and as she set it down, the light fell upon a memorandum scrawled on the edge of a sketch which was lying on the table: 'Feb. 2110 o'clock.'

It contained only a card, on the back of which, scrawled hastily in pencil, were the following words: "To have said good-bye would have made our parting none the lighter.

I have scores of letters signed "Isa," or rather Sibylline leaves scrawled in the vilest handwriting on all sorts of abnormal fragments of paper, and despatched in headlong haste, generally concerning some little projected festivity at Bellosguardo, and advising me of the expected presence of some stranger whom she thought I should like to meet.