She asked little Elizabeth Parsons, her landlord's daughter, to share her bed, and both of them were disturbed by strange scratchings and rappings.
He saw their hands outside the bed-clothes, and heard the scratchings above their heads, and felt 'the room and windows shake very sensibly'.
The ornamentation consists of finger and string marks, irregular scratchings with a pointed tool, raised knobs, perforations round the rim, together with dots and lines in various fantastic combinations.
Some rocks by the roadside exhibit fine examples of groovings and scratchings effected by ice in the glacial epoch.
The scratchings died away as the beasts completed the circuit to the grounded hull.
A fury of sound hurled at them, thuds and scratchings rang on the armor.
On the 28th of July we crossed the Grimsel pass, and traced the scratchings to the very top of it.
Portions of the vertical walls of the horn are polished by this action as if they had come from the hands of a lapidary, and the scratchings are as sharp and definite as if drawn by points of steel.
I never saw scratchings so perfectly preserved: the finest lines are as clear as the deepest, a consequence of the great density and durability of the rock.
Of course, and quite naturally, every sentry was asleep, or else even they could not have failed to realize that the sounds of desperate scratchings that followed were no ordinary phenomena, and might bear looking into.
Further and even more frantic scratchings followed, and anon the king's daughter, who certainly meant to die rather than be left alone in the hands of the foe, eclipsed the moon.
In one of these two rooms Maggie slept with her sisters, and it was here that the disturbances occurred, generally after they had all gone to bed, when rappings and scratchings were heard which often lasted all night.
He went to the side door, listened, and heard outside a continuous and insistent snuffling or sniffing noise, accompanied by whimperings and scratchings at the door.
Philip lit his pipe, and drew his chair near the fire, listening idly to the light scratchings of the writing and the heavy scratchings of the erasures.
Then the Ministers told the knight of the strange noises that were heard on the roof, of the howlings andscratchings which lasted all night till the dawn broke.
Those in attendance round the royal bed heard strange scratchings and noises on the roof as if some dreadful beast were there.
He had no written speech, so he left us rude scratchings of beasts and things, cracked marrow-bones, and weapons of stone.
This time the Indian makes two or three circuits; but the snow is so crusted it is impossible to tell whether the scratchings lead out to the open or back to the border of snow-drifted woods.
But that was not very soon, and he did not leave off till there were sundry scratchings and squeakings, which drew his attention to his pets, all of which were eager for food.
That and the step were suggestive of food, and sundry squeakings and scratchings arose, with, from time to time, a loud rap on the floor given by one of the rabbits.
Another proof of the existence of the ice-sheet may be seen in the scratchings and marks (called 'striae') on pebbles and rocks found in these beds.
In the lane outside the church at High Legh are a number of large boulders which still show the lines of furrows and scratchings made on their surface by the movement of the ice over them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scratchings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
