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But really there are no very nice distinctions to be observed between such phrases, and their use may safely be left to every girl's common sense and discretion. Take pains to sign your name always so that people can read it. Some, out of pure affectation, conceal what they call themselves under a scribble which none can read "a hopeless puzzle of intemperate scratches."
Rod's appearance more than his words was evidence of the trials he and his companions had passed through. His face was emaciated to startling thinness by desperate exertion and lack of sleep, and both his face and his hands were covered with scratches and bruises. Not until late in the afternoon did he go to bed, and it was noon the following day when he awoke from his heavy slumber.
The clothing of the prisoner was all removed and two scratches were found on his right arm. One scratch begins just below the elbow and extends almost to the wrist. It is almost three inches long. The other scratch is much shorter and is on the wrist. Spots of blood were also noticed on the right sleeve of the prisoner's undershirt.
Only Iggy seemed to be seriously hurt, but it was demonstrated, a few moments later, that he was not. For he scrambled out, scattering the dust in a cloud, and stood with his chums. They were a sorry sight covered with dust and streaks of blood, for the wounds they had bound up had opened again, and they had many fresh scratches and cuts. "It's very evident what happened," declared Jimmy.
On the first undisturbed ground, after leaving the town, I was met by the familiar signs, the polished surfaces, the furrows and scratches, the line-engraving of the glacier, so well known in the Old World; and I became convinced of what I had already anticipated as the logical sequence of my previous investigations, that here also this great agent had been at work, although it was only after a long residence in America, and repeated investigations of the glacial phenomena in various parts of the country, that I fully understood the universality of its action.
It was a serious consideration to me, who at that time was travelling through the West with a very small and very wayworn portmanteau, with Glasgow, Torquay, Boston, Rock Island, and I know not what besides upon it. The bush, however, for the time being, was very enjoyable, in spite of numerous bruises and scratches.
Three shrill whistles she had blown, about a hundred yards from the gate, had heard the eager crowded bark of her dog in answer, and then Dick went flying over the fields like a water-bird over the lake, that scratches its smooth surface with its feet as it flies. Around the rampart they went. The still night was jubilant around them as they flew.
Much hard use and occasional oilings had darkened the leather to a rich, red brown, marred with old scars and scratches and the stains of many storms. "Blood is hard to find when it's raining all night," Swan observed, speaking low as one does in the presence of death.
He 'n' Whitty has made a race all to theirselves. It turns out to be a six mile ramble with only one entry. "I goes to the stand 'n' scratches Hamilton while he's still runnin'. The field waits at the post till they get a clear track. "'I didn't know this was a distance race, I says to Whitty when he gets down. Whitty's sore as a crab, the bunch'll mention it to him the rest of the season.
"And b-b-believe me!" exclaimed Toby, with a violent effort, "he's going to carry the scratches I g-g-gave him on his f-f-face for a w-w-while. If I'd known that he was Roland's c-c-cousin I'd have dug a h-h-heap d-d-deeper, too!"
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