Scratched

Examples

• A white shaggy dog, with his face scratched and torn in twenty different places, skulked into the room. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Mr. Dawkins whistled for a couple of minutes; then, taking off his hat, scratched his head, and nodded thrice. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It bit and clawed and scratched in impotent fury. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• These people at a later stage also scratched and engraved designs on ivory and bone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She was bruised and scratched and torn, and had been held by the throat, at last, and choked. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• If I am to remain and hold up my head, I must be scratched. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And it was he, without doubt, who scratched a calendar on this stone. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Pablo looked at her reflectively and scratched his chin. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But she made a wry face at the prospect, and scratched away at her palette as if bent on vigorous measures before she gave up her hopes. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• For anything we know, she may have destroyed her child, and the child in clinging to her may have scratched her hands. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I have _scratched out the loving words_, being written in haste by mistake, _when I forgot . Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The landlord scratched his head, looked at the ceiling, and at the stranger, and smiled feebly. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We scratched our other one, and put all hopes on your word, said the Colonel. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• One prisoner of fifteen years had scratched verses upon his walls, and brief prose sentences--brief, but full of pathos. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Oliver's clothes had been torn in the beating he had received; his face was bruised and scratched; and his hair scattered over his forehead. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The size should be measured and scratched on the surface for the saw to follow. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The savage scratched with a flint on a smooth rock surface, and was reminded of some line or gesture. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I crept round there last night and scratched at the window. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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