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  • He called Scraggs on the howler and explained the situation.

    Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

  • Sully hadn't been a bit surprised when Tyree had told him Scraggs continued to write journals until his death, many years after Sully's own.

    Forbidden Enchantment Bruhns, Nina 2007

  • The latter, he was always careful to point out-as had Scraggs-inevitably ending up in St. James's bed, usually much to the other captain's misadventure and the amusement of the crews.

    Forbidden Enchantment Bruhns, Nina 2007

  • Scraggs could have been rich through blackmail alone if he hadn't had the integrity of a parson.

    Forbidden Enchantment Bruhns, Nina 2007

  • At length the time approached when his terrible master would claim him body and soul, but Scraggs worked out a scheme for evading his bond, and for a time successfully kept Satan at bay and disposed of the three witches by imprisoning them in a hollow tree close by, on which he cast

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • The death of Scraggs dissolved the spell which bound the witches, and their release split the tree in which they were confined from the ground to the topmost branch.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • Mrs. Scragg followed, and so did all the juvenile Scraggs -- the latter springing up the stairs with the agility of apes and the noise of a dozen rude schoolboys just freed from the terror of rod and ferule.

    Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 Various

  • Cadogan, Stanhope, Sunderland, and secretary Scraggs, which were not composed till after the growing infirmities of the duke had taught them to think of what he once had been, and what he was likely soon to become.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 550, June 2, 1832 Various

  • This spell was so successful that Scraggs soon felt himself secure, but one day, venturing beyond the charmed circle, he was immediately seized by the Devil, who attempted to carry him off by way of the chimney, but failed, as the shaft was not sufficiently wide for the passage of the man's body.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • Ever afterwards the house was haunted by the apparition of old Scraggs searching for his lost soul with groans and hideous cries, until at last the old mansion was pulled down and its very stones were removed.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

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