I thought with myself, if I should make a scrabbling shift to clamber up the ladder, yet I should, either with quaking or other symptoms of faintings, give occasion to the enemy to reproach the way of God.
Bunyan's fear was, when threatened to be hung for preaching Christ, that he should make but 'a scrabbling shift to clamber up the ladder.
When his fears prevailed, he dreaded lest he should make but a scrabbling shift to clamber up the ladder-(See Grace Abounding, No.
Comtesse Douairière de Croixmare, and Monsieur le Comte de Croixmare, son fils; upon which Victorine looked coy, and began scrabbling with her toes on the paquet.
There was one expanse that was sheer rock-climbing, flattened like bugs against a wall, scrabbling for hand-holds and footholds.
Kendricks' yell was the only warning I had before I was fighting away something scrabbling up my back.
The Earthmen started to run down, followed by the scrabbling sounds of their pursuers.
The red-eyed, scrabbling figures charged, their chinless mouths opening to emit barking calls of bestial anger.
Giving a few short barks, and scrabbling about in the leaves, Ruddy leaped up and down in front of Rick.
With an eager bark Ruddy rushed toward the bird which was scrabbling around among the leaves in a little hollow on the ground.
No," replied Jaffery, scrabbling at whiskers and beard.
She would have gone in the early scrabbling days for much less than an earl, and been vain of it, and glad to show off before the remains of the Scotch kin.
She would have had that kind of an ambition in the early scrabbling times.
Pendoggat began to slink away, as if he had received the beating, shivering and looking back, but seeing nothing except a dull little heap beside the wall, which seemed to have many hands, all of them scrabbling in the dirt.
He appeared to bescrabbling about the floor, playing with her foot.
There was only one way to meet this--hanging blind and racked in space, my toes barely scrabbling at the floor--and that was to take each thing as it came and not look ahead for an instant.
The blackness started to reel down, but my reflexes are fast and I made one swift, scrabblingstep forward.
The scrabbling of the hands under the cloth was to smooth out the leaves after it was freed from this covering.
He then buried it again and kept raising the handkerchief upon his own side, and scrabbling about with his long brown fingers underneath its cover.
It's like the men to go on wanting, even when it comes to scrabblingat a grave.
Taranto had begun to reverse the spear to jab at the Syssokan left facing him when he heard a scrabbling behind him.
The Syssokans struggled to compensate while scrabbling for safe footholds on the hard, slippery surface.
Gordon heard her breath coming and going in quick jets and the scrabbling of her finger-nails as she clutched at the stones.
Then he heard the scrabbling of boot-nails upon the slab, and a minute after the stamping of feet a few yards away to his left.
This scrabbling was where Bert Stoy, one of the younger and most indefatigable of the Readers, had hoped he might find a British grave.
Now it resembled a grey old heel of cheese, with a little scrabblingin one corner.
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