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He listened greedily to the quail calling, and laughed outright, once, in sheer joy, at a tiny chipmunk that fled scolding up a bank, slipping on the crumbly surface and falling down, then dashing across the road under his horse's nose and, still scolding, scrabbling up a protecting oak.
Scrabbling up, she cried: "Never mind, I'm not hurt a bit; now boost me up again, and let me see what is outside." She was promptly lifted up, and, poking her saucy head out into the moonlight, drew in long whiffs of the sweet night air, which was wonderfully refreshing after the stuffy closet. "The shed is about ten feet below, girls.
Then, seeing that she glanced at him inquiringly: "Dick always seems to me one who needs only to stand still, and Fortuna takes pains to hunt him up and offer him her choicest wares. Life looks to him more like a birthday party than like a battle-field. I say it not in envy, but with the awe of one who has had to scrabble and who sees endless scrabbling ahead.
You've got to see to that, Furny. You've got to stop her if she tries to get out. They're all trying. You should just see the bitches tumbling, and wriggling and scrabbling with their claws and crawling on their stomachs to get to the front tearing each other's eyes out to get there first. And there are fellows that'll take them. They'll even take their wives. "Not me. Not much.
A dim, shapeless figure in the black of the doorway, scrabbling of fingers on the wall. "Where are you, dammit?" said the voice, apparently addressing the electric-light switch. Jill shrank back, desperate fingers pressing deep into the back of an arm-chair. Light flashed from the wall at her side. And there, in the doorway, stood Wally Mason in his shirt-sleeves.
'Possum's pipe, though he was trying every way to hide it, and both of them were scrabbling around on the floor and saying, "Oh, Mr. 'Possum, go away please go away, Mr. 'Possum we always loved you, Mr. 'Possum we can prove it." But Mr. 'Possum looked straight at Mr. "What were you doing with my Sunday coat on?" And Mr. 'Coon tried to say something, but only made a few weak noises. And Mr.
Bunyan's fear was, when threatened to be hung for preaching Christ, that he should make but 'a scrabbling shift to clamber up the ladder. He was, however, comforted with the hope that his dying speech might be blessed to some of the spectators. Grace Abounding, Nos. 334, 335. Ed. How forcibly does this remind us of the escape of the poor doubting pilgrims from the castle of Giant Despair.
"His lordship came in shortly after six-thirty, and, having dressed, went out again." At this moment there was a noise outside the front door, a sort of scrabbling noise, as if somebody were trying to paw his way through the woodwork. Then a sort of thud. "Better go and see what that is, Jeeves." "Very good, sir." He went out and came back again.
One brown and white dog, larger than the others and with bristling hair, was a particular aversion, the thought of which deprived him of his sleep of nights; and not the thought alone, for that persistent suitor more like a bear than any dog I ever saw made a great noise around us in the darkness, whining, howling, and even scrabbling at the stable door.
He had come by night in the devil-carriage that is noiseless as a ghoul, and moving among us asleep, had taken away both the guns and the book! Twice had he come to the Thana, taking each time three rifles. The liver of the Havildar was turned to water, and he fell scrabbling in the dirt about the boots of Yunkum Sahib, crying 'Have mercy!
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