I scrawl this in pencil; because I want to write to you first of all, my dear--I want to speak to you before I speak to anyone.
It was headed with the address of the house in that little court off Holborn; was written in a scrawl that was almost boyish, and seemed to speak as Jimmy might have spoken.
The reader will remember that that short scrawlwhich she addressed to him from her bedroom had not been sent.
Swift says that when he wrote plainly, he felt as if they were no longer alone, but "a bad scrawl is so snug it looks like a PMD.
Jock, like herself, had been gay all day; ever since the arrival of the pencil scrawl from Dick.
There is not much of it, and thescrawl seems hasty.
A dirty, ugly scrawl it was, bulged out with clumsy folding, and dabbed with wax in the creases.
Von Kerber placed the Arabic scrawl under a paperweight.
The third envelope on the tray was yellow, and contained a large, careless scrawl on a half-sheet of business paper; but it seemed to afford Flint unalloyed delight.
The writing was in the large, loosescrawl of Brooke, the junior editor.
Obviously a scrawl from some poor fellow who had obtained a discharge on account of sickness, and gone home.
Already this scrawl of mine has become sacred to me; already this study in which I write has become a sanctuary to which my soul turns with longing.
Some of these claimants," says one writer, "had nothing more to show for their purchases than an ornamental scrawl on a deed which was so phrased as to be unintelligible to the chiefs who signed it.
They bribe no milkman to thy lofty door, They wipe no scrawl from thy increasing score.
It was only a hurried scrawl on a leaf torn from a memorandum book, and, having read it, she passed it on to me.
Notes in her childishscrawl have fallen on me, thick as autumn leaves.
Upon the back, written in the dead woman's familiar scrawl were the date of her death, and the words, "Died by my own hand.
Lord Melbourne humbly begs your Majesty's pardon for this hurried scrawl upon matters of such importance, but Lord Melbourne will have the opportunity of speaking to your Majesty more fully upon them to-morrow.
I am very much gratified by your having shown my hasty scrawl to Sir Robert Peel, and that the sincere expression of a conscientious opinion should have given him pleasure.
A pencil scrawl stared at me, upside down, as I gripped the lower flap of the envelope unconsciously, under the ball of my big thumb.
And the desperate scrawl in the envelope had been no good, thanks to the fool brain and tongue of myself, Nicky Stretton!
I had a queer sort of idea that if Thompson's pencilled scrawl had meant anything more than the wanderings of a distressed mind, I'd better get hold of it myself first.
Instantly, he recognized that this scrawl was in a disguised hand, wholly different from that upon the card pinned to the child's coat, and that the spelling was also incorrect from a set purpose.
But that 'ere same scrawl will bring five thousand dollars out of the bank any time I want it.
Angry I wrote that I must see her, and had something to tell her; then I got a scrawl in reply.
Months afterwards I received a scrawl saying that the child was exactly like me, that P.
I must say good-bye now, and send this scrawl by a messenger, whom Lord Clarendon means to expedite.
Very well, then, see if you can make a scrawl like this.
She is looking to see if this scrawl is to be found anywhere else; she even casts her eye this way--I feel like leaving my post.
We will scrawl it on her door, or rather you shall, and according to the way she conducts herself on seeing it, we shall know in one instant what you with your patience and trust in time may not be able to arrive at in weeks.
Like a flash the ill-written scrawl jumped to his sight.
She had to strike another match to learn the lines that had not stuck word for word in her mind, and after that another match to get a picture of the scrawl to visualize in the dark.
Collins read the scrawl twice before an inkling of its meaning came home to him.
At the top of the page in Peace's childish scrawl were scribbled these words, "Didn't you reely put that muny in our barn?
A Gaulish potter of Roman date could scrawl his name and record, Sacrillos avot, 'Sacrillus potter', on the outside of a mould.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scrawl" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: doodle; scratch; scrawl; scribble; write
