Lucky it is for your patience that my paper is done, for when I am in a scribbling humour, I know not when to give over.
I shall give you my opinion of your other newly adopted songs, my first scribbling fit.
If I should be seized with a scribbling fit, before this goes away, I shall make it another letter; and then you may allow your patience a week's respite between the two.
Yan was scribbling away, but had given up any attempt to make sketches or even notes beyond the names of the plants.
From his pocketbook he produced a card, scribbling their table number upon the back and handing it to me.
The lecture had commenced in good earnest by this time, and I was scribbling away in shorthand as I talked.
Then it was that Beecher offered to write Ingersoll's epitaph, which he proceeded to do by scribbling two words on the back of an envelope, thus: "Robert Burns.
But if the young man still pursued his desultory reading and scribbling on irrelevant themes, why then the remittances were to be withdrawn and Edmund Burke, being twenty-one years of age, could sink or swim.
And when he leaves you happy in his muse, Restless he runs some other to abuse, And often finds; for in our scribbling times No fool can want a sot to praise his rhymes.
A hundred scribbling authors without ground, Believe they have this only phœnix found: When yet the exactest scarce have two or three, Among whole tomes from faults and censure free.
The flattest work has ever in the court Met with some zealous ass for its support; And in all times a forward scribbling fop Has found some greater fool to cry him up.
I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore make no excursions.
I saw Hugh scribbling off a few lines in a great hurry, that evening on the boat, and I shouldn't wonder in the least if it was to Mr. Winthrop!
Denby, scribbling on, did not immediately answer him.
He took up a scribbling pad and inscribed the name on it.
As a doctor or something else, perhaps I should not have the opportunity to do that other work of which I am so fond, scribbling with my pen.
Do not let me tire you any longer with the scribbling of a silly Javanese girl; I have written enough.
He sat scribbling his reminiscences by the fire till the night drew on and the fire went out, and still he scribbled, more and more illegibly, until at last the paper was covered with hieroglyphics undecipherable even by M.
This was a terrible thunder-clap on poor James and his whole scribbling squad; and Ben could find no lightning rod to parry the bolt.
Then scribblingautographs seemed all the go, And music took the place of tossing hay, With various small etcetera, and so It came about they should not go away Before they'd promised for another day.
I was writing away (or rather I was scribbling with the careless haste which is usually bestowed on such a task) when the usher on duty came to the table.
One day, the master on duty, seeing me scribbling away on music paper, came and asked for my work.
By Cesars to be vanquished is a curse, But by a scribbling fop--by heaven, is worse!
During the last Seven Years my pen could not be entirely idle, and for amusement only now and then I had recourse to my old habit of scribbling verses.
What he particularly disliked was that Golenishtchev, a man belonging to a good set, should put himself on a level with some scribbling fellows, with whom he was irritated and angry.
Hobhouse): "With what delight rhymes on the scribbling dunce.
This wicked desk has conjured up the old complaining spirit which so used to haunt me whenever I attempted scribbling to you.
And that's how you've been studying for the Bar of evenings, this is the way you've overcome your fondness for scribbling nonsense?
They're all at the same scribbling business themselves; o' course they'd crack up one another.
He has taken out a slip of paper, and using the short man's head for a writing-desk, is scribbling off some directions for a porter in waiting!
She must not know too much: the Furies take your pert, catamount-y, scribbling women, with a repartee always rolled up under their tongues.
My dear Hooker, I have heard from Oliver that you will be now at Kew, and so I am going to amuse myself by scribbling a bit.
A great hall, large enough for a thousand heroes, full of these Egyptian rascals scribbling with pencils on tablets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scribbling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
