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Example sentences for "scrabble"

  • There was a short scrabble that ended when Buregarde lifted the man's head and whammed it down hard against the floor.

  • There was a hoarse shriek and the mad scrabble of dog-claws on the hard floor, the sound of a heavy thud, and the angry snarl of a dog with its teeth fastened into something soft.

  • They afterwards build another called the Casco, of larger dimensions, of which Isaac Murch becomes the master, surrendering the Hard-scrabble to another captain.

  • Before I could scrabble up--" "The Indian fired!

  • Old Dame Nature must have laughed in her sleeve to see the fun and uproar--the scrabble and rush she had caused in her vast household.

  • As Meg appeared, Scrabble whisked into his hole.

  • There was a little rise in the road on the hither side of Scrabble Creek, where the track, cutting through the crest of a hillock, was only wide enough for a single team, and this rise was of course the place where the balky animals stopped.

  • Aunt Belindy and I are going down cellar to say good-by to Polly Scrabble and her babies.

  • Now we're off to help that poor Scrabble family.

  • Now, after a while, Little-faith came to himself, and getting up, made shift to scrabble on his way.

  • When he got done he couldn't no way make up his mind which one for Jim to scrabble onto the wall, they was all so good; but at last he allowed he would let him scrabble them all on.

  • That's the one which the prisoner has to scrabble on the wall.

  • When he got done he couldn't no way make up his mind which one for Jim to scrabble on to the wall, they was all so good; but at last he allowed he would let him scrabble them all on.

  • The regiment of which Abner Tompkins was a member had returned to the Junction, and the regiment which Colonel Scrabble commanded was again in the neighborhood of Snagtown.

  • Colonel Scrabble had been compelled to fall back with his force about forty or fifty miles south, where a large force was assembling near Rich Mountain.

  • Colonel Scrabble found his forces, when the attacking party had retired, somewhat scattered.

  • He sits in the basement and sulks by day, issuing at night to scrabble about among our boots, falling over things and keeping us awake.

  • The region called Scrabble Up and Down, as well as the road which leads to it, is distinguished by innumerable small steep hills and hollows.

  • Joppa fled madly up the side road that leads to Scrabble Up and Down, and disappeared over the crest of the hill, leaving Angelica and Willy Flint to gloat over the wreck of the buggy.

  • The road to Scrabble Up and Down and the roads far beyond were searched.

  • The fence was broken here and there, as fences generally were in Scrabble Up and Down.

  • And the South Woods are to be reached, not by Scrabble Up and Down, but along the Windless Mountain Road, across the Mill Stream, and by cart-paths which know not their own minds.

  • They are put there to show Scrabble Up and Down what it cannot do.

  • The South Woods do not belong to Scrabble Up and Down.

  • Skippy's horizon was bounded by the towering brick walls of Scrabble Alley.

  • They said that no such funeral ever went out of Scrabble Alley before.

  • The real reckoning of outraged society is not with him, but with Scrabble Alley.

  • On second thought," Jerry said gravely, "maybe I'll just stay back here and play Scrabble with the ladies.

  • The Hansons were just finishing a game of Scrabble when the boys arrived.

  • Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his way.

  • Defn: To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble; as, to scrabble paper.

  • It was conceded in the slums, everywhere, that the Scrabble Alley gang was a little the boldest that had for a long time defied the police.

  • As Valerie turned, there was a scrabble of paws.

  • Jabe Slocum had been down to Edgewood, and was just returning to the White Farm, by way of the cross-roads and Hard Scrabble school-house.

  • Better the unloosed rage of the fiend than the scrabble of self-complacent idiocy.


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