Which preposition to use with scrawled
You may have noted the rather excited scrawl in the back of the ledger?
"That's all, except the scrawl on the last page," said Trendon.
It is difficult to conceive how a scrawl of mine should ever stretch across it.
The ink-pots had all been collected, and stood together in a tray on the master's table; fragments of examination papers filled the paper-basket, and were littered here and there about the floor, while some promising Latin scholar had scrawled across the blackboard the well-known words, Dulce Domum.
He then proceeds as follows: I have ordered Dorcas to cultivate by all means her lady's favour; to lament her incapacity as to writing and reading; to shew letters to her lady, as from pretended country relations; to beg her advice how to answer them, and to get them answered; and to be always aiming at scrawling with a pen, lest inky fingers should give suspicion.
But in the end it did come, in the form of a scrawl from the Weeping Scion himself.
And then in a large scrawl at the bottom of the paper Roy wrote "This boy died before he had time to serve the Queen, he tried to serve God, and he tried to do good to some people, only they turned out mistakes.
After receiving the assurance of Roundjacket's pardon, Verty, as we have said, began scrawling over the copy of the deed he was making the name of Redbud.
Underneath them, in Greek characters with a pencil line scrawled through them, is the only sentence that interested me at the moment: "This looks good.
As I shall soon have the pleasure of conversing with you personally, I conclude without any other addition to this scrawl than the name of your obliged JULIA GRANBY.
They had implicit confidence in his honesty, and the only action they took was to hand the scrawl to him with a remark that they hoped he would discover and prosecute the writer.
It has its graceful curves and crooks, indeed, and here and there a passionate tangent; but on the whole, if I were to unfold it here à la Hogarth, what better legend could I scrawl beneath the series of pictures than So-and-So's Progress to a Mercenary Marriage?
He took it up idlyand glanced over ita note or two in the fashionable feminine scrawl about sittings, a letter from a framemaker, one from his Paris agent, and the usual litter of circulars.
" There was a scrawl for conclusion and signature, and Captain Graham added Writing and dictating have greatly exhausted him.
Then with an indelible pencil I scrawled below it "Sehr gute Bilde.
Scrawl after scrawl was torn up, until his fury had cooled down to a frigid third personality.