Scratches

Examples

• The two or three lines which follow contain fragments of words only, mingled with blots and scratches of the pen. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Never mind,' said Mr. Pickwick, rising, 'it's nothing but a few scratches. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Elliston, still smarting with the knocks, kicks and scratches he had got in his scuffle with the obstinate coachman, was not in a very gentle humour. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• They do not plow with a sharpened stick, nor yet with a three-cornered block of wood that merely scratches the top of the ground. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I noticed it, Mr. Holmes, but you'll always find scratches round a keyhole. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Thy chin scratches my shoulder. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Even without the lens you will perceive, by the scratches on this ward, where the pressure was applied. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The woodwork was cut, and the scratches showed white through the paint, as if they had been that instant done. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The scratches are events, and the candle is the egoism of any person now absent--of Miss Vincy, for example. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The irascible Mr. Smallweed scratches the air. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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