I began to scrabble and fumble around on the floor in search of some kind of weapon. |
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That's why the best words in scrabble are ones like quartzy, musquashes or zyxomma. |
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Life is short-you can feel it slipping away while you scrabble at the fax machine's innards, ink cartridge in hand. |
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A scrabble sounded behind them and it seemed as though someone had put a blindfold over their eyes. |
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She had the scrabble tiles in a Seagram's blue flannel bag with a gold cord. |
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When the brambles became impassable, we would scrabble up the canyon sidewalls and work our way along slopy, discontinuous ledges. |
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And if anyone can tell me why my beautiful scrabble tiles don't show up, I'd be well chuffed. |
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Children had access to scrabble, Chess, snakes and ladders, ludo and mastermind. |
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Players have to bring their own scrabble sets, tiles in cloth bags and also a pen or pencil for score keeping. |
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We talked, listened to songs, played games like anti-tictactoe, hangman and scrabble. |
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This sunny, summer evening, we are watching small dogs scrabble around on a drab linoleum floor. |
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There are several false alarms, but eventually his dogs scrabble madly at the base of a tree. |
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Birds and other unseen creatures scrabble about in the windswept bushes of central park, but I would rather not deliberate too much about that. |
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Then seeing the man lunge at her, she screeched and tried to scrabble away towards the garden maze. |
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He glanced back to where his wife was having to use her hands sometimes to scrabble up the steep climb, eyes intent on the rock face. |
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In this context the survivors in the UK electricity market will continue to scrabble for scale. |
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At one point there was a mad scrabble for the ball and the umpire blew for a bounce. |
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She could hear the faint scrabble of feet as mice scurried through the walls. |
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I scrabble frantically for concealer and eyeliner, lip gloss and eyeshadow. |
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There was a scrabble of paws and claws on stone, punctuated by a few grunts. |
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All was silent except the panting of the Ellingham's and the occasional scrabble at the door. |
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There was a tug, a clatter as the leash handle hit the floor, and the rapid scrabble of claws on tile. |
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You could find a magic trick in which the person has to first spell their name using scrabble tiles. |
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Light glittering from metal, a scrabble of feet launched it forward, a long blade raised and gleaming like copper. |
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I made my way up very gingerly and after a slippery scrabble up the last bit, arrived back on the surface, with Alan not far behind. |
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She had heard the distinct scrabble of rats and was positive she would never be able to rid her clothing of the stench. |
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It may be an idea to have no bare earth for the cats to scrabble in. |
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The wheels rarely scrabble for grip even on the most treacherous surfaces. |
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We ended up playing scrabble in the park, drinking vodka and ginger. |
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That's about a third of G. D. P. Nicosia may be able to scrabble around for some alternative ways of finding cash. |
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Alain heads off alone with the JARE machine, while we scrabble around, taking it all in. |
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Yet while TV and internet companies scrabble round searching for that elusive golden egg, what does this change mean for the viewer? |
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You have to scrape and beg to try to scrabble together a few hundred thousand dollars, and here we were handed the real thing. |
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These redistricting battles may be even more annoying for voters, forced to stand by while partisans scrabble over turf. |
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Hordes of freelance miners scrabble for ore by hand, wash it in a river and sell it to local smugglers. |
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Play scrabble, find and understand words in a foreign language, or even find your own children on a crowded beach, for example. |
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It should not involve regions with low levels of development having to scrabble for every euro. |
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I've managed to scrape and scrabble along, and I've bought land and sold land. |
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You don't want to have to scrabble round to find a phone number when someone's life is at stake. |
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Pakistan, born in the scrabble to decolonize after World War II, has suffered from endless American and British meddling. |
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Some are playing the electronic version of scrabble, one of the most venerable games around. |
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The sky changes from royal blue to the deepest red, the smell of sweet lemon trees wafts through the air as the geckos start to scrabble around on the stony ground. |
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There was a scrabble on concrete and she felt hands on her face. |
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That's just scrabble tiles but they're not spelling out any real word. |
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Clues could be rejected or swapped, a bit like scrabble tiles. |
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An awesome word puzzle game inspired by scrabble and jig-saw! |
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If you just sit down with a scrabble set or pencil and paper, and combine elements of your own name, you will soon come up with a number of invented words. |
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It's only a matter of time before marketers collide in the scrabble for the pink grey brown pound. |
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But they will change little for ordinary folk, who will continue to scrabble for what they can get, with both sides invariably ending up worse off. |
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Its devaluation blew a hole in the global monetary system, causing America to raise interest rates in the midst of a slump and forcing others to scrabble for bullion to replace their sterling reserves. |
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Her hobbies include knitting, tatting, bridge and scrabble. |
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You can play scrabble, go for a walk or just have a chat. |
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While the rest of us scrabble around in mud, this slick, slightly soulless operation is probably the most polished, proficient pop Glastonbury will witness all weekend. |
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You scrabble around and throw everything into a bag. |
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The scrabble gently helps to perfect the spelling and the vocabulary. |
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There will be a Press Conference Commissioner Orban at 12:30, followed by a Technical Briefing on Early Language Learning and a demonstration of electronic scrabble. |
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Orwell had to scrabble around in the rubble for his collection of books, which he had finally managed to transfer from Wallington, carting them away in a wheelbarrow. |
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