It was this one, with the scratch on it; though I have not been even conscious of the abasement, until now.

Once she scratched at the door, a faint, dog-like scratch for admission, and then sat back on her heels, staring at the uncompromising panel, holding back the audibility of her sobs with her hand.

One of our horses was killed, and Buckskin Joe was wounded, but I didn't discover the fact until some time afterwards as he had been shot in the breast and showed no signs of having received a scratch of any kind.

He scratched with a stub of lead.

" "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.

Lockhart and Wilson, who wrote in Blackwood's, were Tories tooth and nail, biting and scratching for party.

The pity is that I have spent my best years scratching like a hen at its doorstep instead of entering.

I was never meant to be one of those who scratch about on the surface.

Gratton was down on his hands and knees, scratching among the loose stones like a dog digging for a buried bone.

And no one was doing business as usual more composedly than a wee tot trudging along to school with a nasty scratch from a glass splinter on her chubby cheek.

There was the same sniffing and scratching as before, and I felt the tent give a little as when wind shakes it.

"What's got into you today?" Wilson bounced like a monkey, scratching under both armpits.

(The "maybe" followed an "of course," which had been scratched through.)

Now his quill scratched over the paper unconcernedly, while he could join as easily in his master's conversation; nothing seemed to preoccupy him, or he held a mind open at every point.

Finally she knew that he had found a match; she heard it scratch against a rock.

It left a deep scratch behind it.

It was clear, therefore, that the scratch by the keyhole could not have been made by the thief in his trembling anxiety to get the business he had undertaken accomplished.

The jeweler, who had wound EDWIN DROOD'S watch for him on the day of the dinner, promptly identified the timepiece by the innumerable scratches around the keyhole; Mr. BUMSTEAD, though at first ecstatic with the idea that the seal-ring was a ferule from an umbrella, at length allowed himself to be persuaded into a gloomy recognition of it as a part of his nephew, and MONTGOMERY was detained in custody for further revelations.

I was about to get up out of my chair and go to bed, when there came a sound of pattering in the hall, a sound of bare feet coming over the polished floor, and every now and then a foot would slip and I heard claws scratching along the wood as some four-footed thing lost and regained its balance.

Even Muriel's thick gloves did not wholly protect her, and once when she received a nasty scratch across the cheek, she stopped and laughingly exclaimed: "Now what untruth must I invent to account for that?

When the snow was no longer fit for sledging, Williams, the factor, noted that there were many who had not come, and the accounts of these he later scratched out of his ledgers knowing that they were victims of the plague.

And out of the numb exuberant wreckage of your days come these raku pots graceful open shapes, lines freely scratched into the clay, deep turquoise, copper glazes, extravagant, surprised, too beautiful for tears.

"The brute's been scratching round my tent too," he cried, as he pointed to similar marks by the door and I stooped down to examine them.

It was small and plain, but there were a few words scratched inside the case with the point of a knife, which I read every day.

The wolf, blinded by the sand in his eyes, was so infuriated that he finally pounced upon the fox, who, however, managed yet to get the upper hand and come off victor, generously granting life to his foe, whom he had nearly torn and scratched to pieces.