"Scrabble" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... SCRABBLE. A badly written log. This term is used by the translators of the Bible at David's feigned madness, when he "scrabbled on the ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... There were some little circumstances in his history which must have laid hold of my imagination; for I used over and over to demand its repetition; and one of my first attempts at a work of art was to scrabble his initials with my fingers, in red paint, on the house-door. One day, when playing all alone at the stair-foot—for the inmates of the house had gone out—something extraordinary had caught my eye on the landing-place above; and looking up, there stood ...
— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller |
