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- noun Plural form of
scrabbling .
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Examples
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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.
Tin 2010
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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 Lackey, Mercedes 2005
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His hands were bloody, and his scrabblings streaked across dark, congealed smears.
The Great Hunt Jordan, Robert 1990
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Clicks, squeaks, scrabblings, whines, the hiss of scales on decomposed pavement moved away hurriedly.
The Dragon Never Sleeps Cook, Glen 1988
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Daeman heard scrabblings from the ruined house above, but no voynix footsteps sounded on the stairs.
Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981
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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 Clarke, Arthur C. 1972
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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 John Ruskin 1859
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