scrabble

[…] there came no answer, except the echo of my own voice sounding hollow and far off down in the vault. So in despair I turned back to the earth wall below the slab, and scrabbled at it with my fingers, till my nails were broken and the blood ran out; having all the while a sure knowledge, like a cord twisted round my head, that no effort of mine could ever dislodge the great stone.

She was on her hands and knees scrabbling in the mud, looking for her missing wedding ring.

David […] scrabbled on the doors of the gate.

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