Couldn't you knock her cap off, or her tooth out, or scratch her, or do something or other to her?
We were a scratch lot, men and women together, and I was mightily taken with one of the crew, who was the chief dancer, and acted the queen and other great parts in plays, for she was a notable jilt.
The cursed scholar said, "Pray, cousin, the next time scratch when it itches, and not afterwards.
The moral is clear: When in doubt, always mount a scratch monkey.
Used to refer to any scratch volume hooked to a computer during any risky operation as a replacement for some precious resource or data that might otherwise get trashed.
I try to make a picture you see, but scratch it out in despair.
These birds are very pugnacious, and attack a rival at once, when both come to the scratch with courage and tenacity.
She made a pathetic little figure, with her habit sorely rent and a nasty red scratch across her forehead.
But I can scratch it bigger if I need to," said Uncle Wiggily.
Since that time all the dogs hunted the countless lizards which ran across the path during the march, and Shot was most determined in his endeavours toscratch them out of their holes.
You will only make the pain worse, because you will scratch the eyeball.
If the scratch is from a finger nail or the claw of a cat, or if the wound is the bite of some animal, you must be sure to have your mother or a doctor clean the wound with strong medicine.
If you do, you may crack or scratch the delicate glassy coating of your teeth.
These enemies can attack us only through a scratch or cut in the skin, for that is the only way they can get into the blood.
If a scab forms over a scratch or cut in your skin, what should you do to it?
And if one of those two fail, how's the other to scratch along?
He flipped a piece of scratchpaper over to Welton.
And in the pauses he could be seen to scratch himself assiduously, first with one hand, then with the other.
Sivert understood this as evidence that so elegant a being had little need toscratch at all.
The Turks made the same mistake and tried to oust Lawrence in the Great War; but he simply overwhelmed them with a scratch brigade of partly armed Bedouins and women.
One finger's breadth closer and I would have had a sick beast on my hands--but he proved a blundering pig with his weapon and only made that scratch after all.
A dog can scratch fleas, but not worms in his belly!
If canning in tin, scratch on the can at the time of sealing the initial of the contents.
The chances for getting it by eating canned goods, say the experts, is rather less than the chances from dying of lockjaw every time you scratch your finger.
No, we'll have to drop that, unless we can scratchit on.
In fact, if I were you, I would either scratch him, or see someone else is in too, to make sure of it.
In a university of from three to four thousand men there are, in addition to the 'varsity crew, four class crews and perhaps a few scratch crews.
Every autumn newcomers are publicly informed that it is their duty to the university to train for the freshman scratch games.
In such a necessity, a gentle hand is required, accommodated to his sentiment, to scratch him just in the place where he itches, otherwise scratch him not at all.
In most cases they are contented to collect together a variety of substances without much discrimination; sometimes they merely scratch a hole in the ground, in which they deposit their eggs without any further care.
There are three of us in the shop, and what with shaving and combing and hair-cutting, not one of the three has the time to stop and scratch his head, and I least of all.
Either of these times is just as good as half-past ten, and you will miss the crowd, have a clear course, and spare yourself the anxiety of being a constant annoyance to the scratch men behind you if you started at the busy time.
In practically all cases men who were subsequent champions were goodscratch players at this age.
This was in December 1890, when what was called the scratch score of the Coventry course was taken, and there was given to each hole a figure which was supposed to represent the scratch value.
But," she added to Tum Tum, "if ever I get a chance to scratch you, I will.
I would bite and scratch until the men would be glad to let me go back to my jungle again.
Tum Tum was not very much afraid of the tiger now, even though he knew the bad animal might some day get loose and scratch him.
Luckily, luckily, she had been wise enough before that to scratch out with many thick scratches of the pen the name that had been written by the actress before the initials C.
