scrabblings

The dull mortal world with its petty strivings for power over the twitterings and scrabblings of other mortals slipped from his thoughts.

Ill Met By Moonlight

His hands were bloody, and his scrabblings streaked across dark, congealed smears.

The Great Hunt

Clicks, squeaks, scrabblings, whines, the hiss of scales on decomposed pavement moved away hurriedly.

The Dragon Never Sleeps

Daeman heard scrabblings from the ruined house above, but no voynix footsteps sounded on the stairs.

Ilium

It was hard not to connect those tendrils with the scrabblings in the sand, but though Bowman kept a careful watch on them as long as they were in sight, they never stirred.

The Lost Worlds of 2001

Besides, many of his best designs are pale pencil drawings like Florentine engravings, of which the delicacy is literally invisible, and the manner irksome, to a public trained among the black scrabblings of modern wood-cutter's and etcher's prints.

On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature