| Feeling threatened she scrabbled backward when the man squatted down in front of her. |
| His fingers scrabbled at the stone and found holds, but not before he dropped a foot. |
| He was leaning on the railings, munching a meat pie and watching as the birds scrabbled for the crumbs. |
| His free hand scrabbled desperately around, and he began clawing at his attacker. |
| She turned to Ian enquiringly, as the boy scrabbled frantically on the floor looking for coins. |
| In Indonesia's Aceh province, fast emerging as the quake's ground zero, survivors scrabbled for food among mud and corpses. |
