Tom scrawled on his slate, "Please take it--I got more.
He caught up a piece of brown paper from the workbench, tore a ragged corner from it, and hastily scrawled a message.
From it alighted neither Mr. Snelling nor any member of the family, but instead the chauffeur gravely delivered to Robert Morton a hastily scrawled note written in Mr. Galbraith's spreading hand.
Doubtless he had been detained, or had misread her hurriedly scrawled note, taking the four for a five.
The walls had evidently in ancient times been hung with damask; but now were naked, and scrawled over by that class of aspiring travellers who defile noble monuments with their worthless names.
It came as natural to him now to take a dirty, scrawled love-letter from a groom to a scullery-maid as in old times it did to lend a man fifty pounds.
I have the address here, birahi," she replied, diving into her satin blouse and producing a slip of rice paper upon which was scrawled a number of dead-black symbols of the Chinese written language.
Hastily scrawled in the lower right-hand corner of the otherwise blank leaf was a replica of the blurred sign that had caused such consternation on the part of Lo Ong.
Three rows of Chinese markings were scrawled down it.
He found the scrawled list and discovered that two names besides Mrs. McNulty’s were written on an extra bit of paper and had been left out of the printed list.
Soon, there appeared upon the check down in the right-hand corner, the scrawled signature, “John W.
The following rather inscrutable doggerel was found scrawled on a piece of paper:-- When Death doth reap And Chuff is sickled, He will not keep: He was never pickled.
She saw her name scrawled upon the outside, and took it eagerly.
She tore off the outer wrapping of the smooth bark, with its fringe of fragile green lichen, and read the few lines scrawled within.
Hastily I scrawled a note to you and added a few lines to my will, you read them did'nt you?
This strange epistle was hastily scrawled in pencil and the signature was very shaky, but Helen knew the writing in a minute, it was undoubtedly Cyril's.
This was all written in violet coloured ink by Cyril himself; but at the bottom of the paper a few lines were hastily scrawled in pencil.
The captain flung himself miserably into a chair and scrawled out the ill-omened document.
That done, he scrawled a post card to Dr Brandram, requesting him to call and see Roger, whose cough was still a little troublesome.
Here they found, instead of the party they expected, a hurriedly scrawled line from Roger.
She excited herself into strong convulsions, and Mary had finally to be called up to quiet her.
I have already said that I can find no dates scrawled on the walls earlier than 1529.
We should not forget, however, that an inscription in terra-cotta cannot be surreptitiously scrawledon like a false signature on a fresco or painting.
I found in my lodgings in London, on my return from Doncaster, some two months later, a copy of the county paper of this date, with a cross scrawled beside the piece of intelligence which follows.
Lake, with his odd, sly smile, as he scrawled a little endorsement on the order.
Again, Beside webbed purples from some galleon's hold, A black chest bore the skull and bones in white Above a scrawled "Gunpowder!
The girl shuddered violently when a thick, gorged snake squirmed from under her feet and scrawled like a monstrous slug into a bush.
Mr. Stirling turned the leaf, turned three or four leaves, all with Mariette scrawled on them.
He lit it, and the poor little tall drawing-room came reluctantly into view, with its tarnished mirror from which the quicksilver had ebbed, and its flowered wall-paper over which the damp had scrawled its own irregular patterns.
Goldsmith was quartered, not alone, in a garret, on the window of which his name, scrawled by himself, is still read with interest.
It was scrawled in Olive's school-girl hand, and in some parts was hard to decipher, especially as now and then a blot of teardrops had rendered it illegible; but nevertheless Richard succeeded in reading it.
Mr. Marsden has arrived,' scrawled Chriss, 'and has just had tea here.
On the post the soldiers hadscrawled inscriptions and protests.
A chuckle comes from the antiquated and wrinkle-scrawled face, and then the poilu, checked for an instant by Barque's command, is jostled by the following flood and swept away.
On opening the package she found a coral necklace and armlets, with clasps engraved, and a soiled, miserably-scrawled letter.
In the meanwhile I had scrawled on piece of paper, which I had quietly placed near the pistol: "The man in the box is a burglar.
The three or four eggs are pale blue, scrawled and spotted with black and lavender (.
Four to six white eggs, specked, scrawled and spotted with black and brown (.
Eggs dull white, scrawled about the large end with black and lavender (.
They lay three to five eggs, white, specked and scrawled sparingly with blackish (.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scrawled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
