Gervase scribbles when he has time.

He scribbles dozens like that.

I hope I have some share of reputation; which I would not willingly forfeit for a frolic, or humour: and I believe no Gentleman, who reads this Paper, will look upon it to be of the same last and mould with the common scribbles that are every day hawked about.

He was descended from an illustrious family, and was destined to one of the learned professions; but he could not give up his mind to anything but drawing,as annoying to his father as Galileo's experiments were to his parent; as unmeaning to him as Gibbon's History was to George III.,"Scribble, scribble, scribble; Mr. Gibbon, I perceive, sir, you are always a-scribbling."

He was descended from an illustrious family, and was destined to one of the learned professions; but he could not give up his mind to anything but drawing,as annoying to his father as Galileo's experiments were to his parent; as unmeaning to him as Gibbon's History was to George III.,"Scribble, scribble, scribble; Mr. Gibbon, I perceive, sir, you are always a-scribbling."

cacography^, griffonage^, barbouillage^; bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand; scribble &c v.; pattes de mouche

V. write, pen; copy, engross; write out, write out fair; transcribe; scribble, scrawl, scrabble, scratch; interline; stain paper; write down &c (record) 551; sign &c (attest) 467; enface^. compose, indite, draw up, draft, formulate; dictate; inscribe, throw on paper, dash off; manifold. take up the pen, take pen in hand; shed ink, spill ink, dip one's pen in ink.

A playwright of my acquaintance, and a very remarkable playwright too, used to scribble the first drafts of his play in little notebooks, which he produced from his pocket whenever he had a moment to spareoften on the top of an omnibus.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Bruce Bairnsfather: a photograph The Birth of "Fragments": Scribbles on the farmhouse walls That Astronomical Annoyance, the Star Shell "Plugstreet Wood" A Hopeless Dawn The usual line in Billeting Farms "Chuck us the biscuits, Bill.

I didn't fight against it, and began by making a few pencil scribbles with a joke attached, and pinned them up in our cracked shell of a room.

He sat beside me and gave me a writing-pad to scribble a note on.

Yet, from time to time, when I have leisure, I scribble a few lines.

I did not even scribble a word of adieu or of explanation.

But she leaves me to scribble, to fret, and to sigh She torments me each moment, and bids me go write,

He turns round on his heels and scribbles out a great many prescriptions, but his skill is not worth a toadstool.

But he went on to the house, since his invitation could be easily conveyed by a note which he would scribble there, and was admitted by Martin.

However, looking down as I rapidly scribble, I start to notice a puddle emerging around me on the stone floor.

To the credit of about a third of his audience, they did not whip out a notebook to scribble.

I can sorta scribble my name.

She kept a diary, and she would often go away in her own little room, and scribble a few lines in her book.

"What you write of me, would make me more conceited, than what I scribble myself.

coloured chalk, and near by a sort of drawing block, from which sheet after sheet might be torn, and on which they could draw in charcoal, and a little desk there was, furnished with great carpenter's pencils of varying hardness and a copious supply of paper, on which the boys might first scribble and then draw more neatly.

Bewildered by such wealth of subject, one is but too apt to sit at gaze, and finally go home with merely a dozen pages of scribbles added to the little canvas jotting-book!

Between Scribbles he wrote a few Verses about, "When Willie Came to say Good Night."

Still it was not quite finished on Friday afternoon at six, when school ended, and Eric stayed a few minutes behind the rest to scribble off the last ten lines; which done, he banged down the lid of his desk, not locking it, and ran out.