He could only scratch marks upon paper, upon bark, upon whatever he had.

To illustrate the sound, the big guard scratched the point of his spear upon the stone floor.

He thrust a cigarette between his puffed lips and scratched a match upon the surface of a metal-sheeted door.

He laughed and drawing his sword scratched a rude cross upon the concrete of one of the arches.

With her thumb, she popped another, and scratched her nail upon the paper.

All is quiet as he writes in the ship's log and we can plainly hear his quill scratching upon the paper.

Some- thing scratched heavily upon the wooden steps.

The dark one drew his blade and used it to scratch an elaborate pattern upon the ground.

He scratched an arrow upon a bit of wood, and touched it with his holy ribbon.

It has been done before, while many races now ascendant were but primitives scratching upon single balls of dust.