In the evening, in addition to the needful process of drying our {121} clothing and blankets, we had ample employment in scratching and picking the pestiferous arachnides from our bodies.
I was alone in my own room that evening when a gentle scratchingon the window-crystal entreated admission.
I threw myself into the thick of the thistles and brambles, scratching myself at every step.
Then I seemed to hear a scratching on the wall, but I had heard no sound of footsteps.
It had seemed so large in the fog, scratching at the meat hummock.
As I was lying reading in my berth I heard a peculiar sound; it was like boxes being dragged about on deck, and there was also scraping, like a dog that wanted to get out, scratching violently at a door.
The Princess still scratchingthe dragon behind his ears, just where he loved it most, asked softly: "Why?
The reminder made it worse; Thompson's scratching went deeper, beginning to draw blood.
Thompson rubbed at the fang marks, frustrated that it didn't seem to help, then began scratching at them.
But he was scratchinghis throat, drawing blood, and he wouldn't stop--I had to order him restrained.
When this becomes public property Sir George will be justified in scratching the colt.
You are justified in scratching the horse and, indeed, you have every excuse for doing so.
Then I can put the screw on Sir George and compel him to find some excuse for scratching his colt.
Both the parents lead them out to feed: they point out to them the proper places for their food, and assist them in finding it by scratching the ground with their feet.
And then, slowly, hastelessly, it began coming forward, its great feet scratchingon the rocks, its tail sliding around a boulder behind it.
On the floor in the corner the horrified men saw a cockroach nearly eighteen inches in length, with its head facing the angle of wall, and scratching with its legs against the base board as though about to climb up.
The rug gave under his thrust as the insect flattened out; then they could hear again the muffled scratching of its legs upon the floor as it raised the rug up under the Very Young Man's weight.
Well,' returned Mr. Dick, scratchinghis ear with his pen, and looking dubiously at me.
Dick barked loudly, and began scratching at the ice.
Jem, scratching a bristling shock of hair which glimmered through the dawn like a thicket of spikes.
Mistah Poynteh," reflected Ras, scratching his head through his hat, "is a lunatict.
As I received it, a low growl was heard, succeeded by a scratching at the door.
At that moment the red-haired woman came up to the "aristocracy" with both freckled hands in her thick hair, scratching her head with her nails.
Botchkova sat quite still and straight, only now and then scratching her head under the kerchief.
Very doubtful," said the cook, scratching his head.
With Joseph around, a loose board became a loose board, nothing more, and a scratchingnoise just a plain scratching noise.
There was a loose board in the passage which made burglar noises in the dark behind you when you stepped on it on the way to bed; and there were funny scratching sounds which made you jump and hold your breath.
I was just sniffing at a place in the wall, when I heard a scratching noise.
I recognized his voice in a second, and I was scratching at the door before the old man had time to get up out of his chair.
It was somebody scratching at the window, trying to get in.
Radisson explained; and he protested against the impudence of scratching its back on our keel.
The truth is, that hitherto the effects of his wrath have not reached further than to the scratching of his nurse and governesses.
It gave upon the slope planted with corn; the vivid, green shoots everywhere pushed through the chocolate-colored soil; chickens were vigorously scratching in a corner.
The names traced by his scratching pen brought clearly before him the individuals designated: Elias Wellbogast had a long, tangled grey beard and a gaze that peered anxiously through a settling blindness.
She led them out into the farmyard, clucking and scratching busily; for all were hungry, and ran chirping round her to pick up the worms and seeds she found for them.
I 'll fish; I 'm so tired I can't go scratchinground after berries.
Ah, yes, I remember now," said the Captain, scratching his head reflectively.
That mebbe, Master Bob," he replied modestly, scratching the back of his neck where one of his damp locks of hair tickled him at the moment.
It wasscratching at the front dawer afore I was up this morning.
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