Govind writhed at the first touch on the scruff of his neck.
The man had picked up the shafts, and was about to set forward, when Frank was seized by the scruff of the neck and lifted bodily from the seat.
Thereupon, without the least warning, he seized Yung How by the scruff of his neck, and lifted him bodily out of his chair.
With these words he caught his adversary by the scruff of the neck, dragged him beside his horse into the heart of the forest, tied his hands with the cord that had already served him as a halter, and bound him fast to a tree.
I don't know but I'd better stick to Scruff and leave Nimrod to Lady Jess.
Scruff knew the road home as well as another, and doubtless reasoned in his burro mind that the sooner he reached there the sooner he would be rid of his awkward rider.
Without Scruff they would be compelled to stay within walking distance of the cottage, and this was imprisonment.
But they can't be far away, for there's Scruff yonder, trying to get into the alfalfa.
The horses and Scruff were willing to stand without tying, and Ninian was, in any case, too excited now to have remembered them.
Is Scruff that mottled burro poking his nose through that fence?
They're taking Scruffout of the car and you must ride him.
Bound themselves--or had help to bind--and rode Scruffbareback up the canyon!
So she dismounted and led Scruff back beside the telegraph post, against which the weary animal calmly leaned his shoulder and went to sleep.
Scruff reluctantly roused and moved a pace or two, then went to sleep again.
When dinner-time came we had to be dragged in by the scruffof our necks.
Lone Sahib caught it by the scruff of its neck, handed it over to the sweeper to be drowned, and fined the bearer four annas.
This plate has a notch on the top for the cinder or scruff to run off, and a place at the side to discharge the metal at casting.
Lister, catching the lad by the scruff of the neck, "else I'll heave you over the bulwark.
Miles fell uppermost, and, hardly realizing how or why, he was pommelling Francis lustily, when a mighty hand heaved him up by the scruff of the neck.
If I catch you down this way again----" He finished the sentence by taking the fellow by the scruff of the neck and giving him a violent push as he passed him.
Bill took him by the scruff of the neck and lowered him down, kicking strongly, into the hold.
As tenderly as if he were picking up a ball of needles, he caught her by the scruff of the neck, lifting her in the air and depositing her at the Mistress's feet.
One of them had actually touched her squirming spine; when white teeth gripped her by the scruff of the neck.
Acton then caught him by the scruff of his neck and threw him headlong into the snow-heap.
Then he grabbed Cullen by the scruff of the neck and sent him spinning into the arms of Seth.
In about five minutes the two sheriffs'll be crawling into this old drain and taking the train robbers by the scruff of the neck.
It was like as if I was in Heaven, and you took me by my scruff and pants and hove me out.
I knew the pup in a minute, and I had him by his slack and scruff before he knew what had got him.
Why doesn't Len just take this pleasing minstrel by the scruff of his neck and say to him, 'Nice little doggy, run away'?
Providence threw him out by the scruff of his arrogant neck to fight for his life or to die--which was what he needed.
His father's hand seized him by thescruff of his neck.
Tom did nothing but take the fellow by the scruff of his neck and the waistband of his corduroys and fling him into the canal.
The boat now run 'pon the top ov me; I was gript by the scruff ov the neck, and dragg'd into it.
Bill took him by thescruff of the neck and lowered him, kicking strongly, into the hold.
Down High Street he marched, carrying his cub by the scruff of the neck as you might carry a dirty puppy to an outhouse.
He would have flung Gilmour out by the scruff o' the neck if he had daured to set his tongue against him!
And the Wall Street Farmer, shouting unobeyed mandates to his pet, dragged away the pugnacious Melisande by the scruffof the neck.
He was well-nigh as powerless against a strong opponent in this position as is a puppy that is held up by the scruffof the neck.
He made a plunge across the quadrangle, seized the beautiful Merle by the scruff of the neck and kicked him.
Before the destructive little teeth could rip the fine cambric into rags, the puppy found himself, to his amazement, lifted gently from earth by the scruff of his neck and held thus, in midair, until he dropped the handkerchief.
He caught your gray-hound by the scruff of the neck, and perhaps threw me into the water by accident.
Then, as soon as he is seated by your side, and is on the point of kissing you, you must seize him by the scruff of the neck, and hold on till I come.
I should like to see you seize a drunken costermonger in the act of jumping on his wife by the scruff of the neck, and reduce him to such pulp that he sat up on his tail and begged.
He picked him up by the scruff of his neck, and put him upon the cushions of the ample easy chair in which he was sitting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scruff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
