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  • Steel glinted in the shadows where wolf preyed on wolf, and from the darkness rose the shrill laughter of women, and the sounds of scufflings and strugglings.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

  • “Why, with their scufflings and horse-play and noise, it was just a menagerie,”17 he fumed.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • “Why, with their scufflings and horse-play and noise, it was just a menagerie,”17 he fumed.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • That, mixed with periodic cat scufflings when they all fight for a go at the stopper, is enough to make me INSANE.

    idiot-milk Diary Entry idiot-milk 2004

  • Petal, wiser, did not rattle it; but she listened: she heard scufflings, little cries.

    The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

  • Steel glinted in the shadows where wolf preyed on wolf, and from the darkness rose the shrill laughter of women, and the sounds of scufflings and strugglings.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • There was silence in the office except for the fidgetings and scufflings resulting from the Slytherins 'efforts to keep Ron and the others under control.

    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003

  • The little girls “showed off” in various ways, and the little boys “showed off” with such diligence that the air was thick with paper wads and the murmur of scufflings.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2003

  • Steel glinted in the shadows where wolf preyed on wolf, and from the darkness rose the shrill laughter of women, and the sounds of scufflings and strugglings.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Steel glinted in the shadows where wolf preyed on wolf, and from the darkness rose the shrill laughter of women, and the sounds of scufflings and stragglings.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

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