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Example sentences for "scribble"

Lexicographically close words:
screwed; screwing; screws; screwy; scribal; scribbled; scribbler; scribblers; scribbles; scribbling
  1. But I feel an impulse to scribble wordly words, to stand in a silk hat beside the statue of Liberty and gaze out upon the Atlantic with a Carlylian pensiveness.

  2. She would do as he did, scribble words over faces and buildings as she walked.

  3. When he looked for her she had vanished in the scribble of the crowd and he walked with the same curious unconsciousness of her existence as of his own.

  4. Above the heads of the people the great spatula-topped buildings spread a zigzag of windows, a scribble of rooftops against the sky.

  5. You were born to be the wife of a strong man and the mother of his sturdy children; and you and your sort will inherit the earth and make the laws for us weaklings who dream and scribble and paint.

  6. It takes no more time to write clearly than in spidery hieroglyphics, and a slovenly scribble is no proof of cleverness, but rather of carelessness and a tendency to 'scamp' work.

  7. It is such stuff,' said he, 'as little boys scribble upon walls.

  8. Have to scribble when the beggars aren't watching me.

  9. Perhaps Jack, unable for some reason to scribble even so much as a word, had entrusted the handkerchief to the monkey's care, knowing that the sight of it would assure his chum of his safety, if it did no more.

  10. Rouelle's, and we began to scribble over paper upon that science, of which we scarcely possessed the elements.

  11. This enables me to vary my solitary amusements, and alternately to scribble as well as read, which I could not do last year.

  12. Any Muggins can write about old days on the Mississippi of five hundred different kinds, but I am the only man alive that can scribble about the piloting of that day, and no man has ever tried to scribble about it yet.

  13. I'll try and venture to scribble a line and a half every time the man goes with "The Watchman" to you.

  14. I scribble their declarations of love to the raw soldiers.

  15. I would gladly have a word or two directly from yourself when you can scribble a note without feeling me a bore for wanting it.

  16. Christophe would get up and scribble a note and slip it under Olivier's door: and next day as soon as he woke up he would beg his pardon.

  17. I know that I am a poor writer, that I scarcely can manage to scribble a tolerable English letter, and not a much better one in French, though that is easier to me.

  18. I have got up to scribble this, which it is not strange that after all I saw this day, at this curious place, I should have forgotten.

  19. I scribble two lines in haste before starting to Capri to announce my safe arrival here in the middle of the day on Monday.

  20. They came out in the Gloucester Herald, and I dare say I shall scribble something about these arches some day.

  21. I have but a moment to scribble these lines; you must forgive their weakness, and take for said all that should be said.

  22. For answer he merely shook his head and continued to scribble and figure on the paper.

  23. If Maevius scribble in Apollo's spite,[65] There are who judge still worse than he can write.

  24. This scribble I presume will find you just arrived at Bucklands.

  25. What is to become of Milton I know not; I do nothing but scribble to you, and seem to have no relish for any other employment.

  26. The truth however is, that I am neither; but have had time enough to have scribbled to you, had I been able to scribble at all.

  27. In fact, I was on the point of closing the old scribble book through sheer weariness, when my eye lit on something which, as I read it further, made me fairly sweat.

  28. Then she sailed to Corsica, and lay in a tiny coaster's harbour where there was no Captain of the Port or any one else who could scribble on stamped paper.

  29. I have just had time to scribble these few words before the post comes for my letter.

  30. I scribble this off to you just before going to bed.

  31. Here they would use some of their paper, for they still kept up their old habit of writing tales and poems, and loved to scribble out of doors.

  32. I have seated myself at Nancy's desk to scribble a little--interrupted already.

  33. I must really take my pen to scribble a little before I set off.

  34. I have seated myself in my (w)rapper to scribble a little.

  35. We intend going, and I shall not scribble again to-night.


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