Lexicographical Neighbors of Scraiching
Literary usage of Scraiching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle: Annotated by Thomas Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"... extent even of being summoned out of bed in the middle of the night to prescribe
for John Carr, when "scraiching as if he were at the point o' daith! ..."
2. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"... in the middle of the night to prescribe for John Carr, when " scraiching as
if he were at the point o' daith!" And didn'tI cure him on the spot, ..."
3. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1845)
"... the Cailleach-dhu-glass whisk ye o'er on her broomstick, if she has such an
accommodation. No doubt she must have been flying scraiching about the auld ..."
4. Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopaedia of Universal Authorship by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1893)
"There's no a bed in the house up but my ain ; and t Im' I wad gie ye't, I couldna
promise ye peace to lie in't, for the fiddles '11 be scraiching, ..."
5. The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship by Charles Gibbon (1888)
"There's no a bed in the house up but my ain ; and tho' 1 wad gie ye't, I couldna
promise ye peace to lie in't, for the fiddles '11 be scraiching, ..."
6. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang (1897)
"scraiching (screeching, crying), and I followed the noise, with my servant, a
little way from the town (farm-steading throughout). ..."
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