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"Scratcher" Quotes from Famous Books

... this arrangement is much less favourable to independence in voting and much less efficient as a check upon bribery; because the man who votes a straight party ticket will make all his marks in a very short time, while the "scratcher," or independent voter, will consume much more time in selecting his names. Thus people interested in seeing whether a man is voting the straight party ticket or not can form an opinion from the length of time he spends in ...

— Civil Government in the United States Considered with - Some Reference to Its Origins • John Fiske

... fall to the branches of the parent tree, and to those of its lowly neighbours. Certainly some proportion of the seeds which reach the ground must be borne hither and thither by the agency of that eternal scratcher, the scrub fowl. But even a bird of such immensely proportionate strength may be seriously troubled by them. A case in point may be cited. A dog retrieving a scrub fowl, which had fallen in the vicinity of an "Ahm-moo" tree, emerged with it entirely enveloped with the seeds and ...

— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield

... followed at every stroke. — He was in hopes that he would be dismissed from this disagreeable office, but the event turned out contrary to his expectation. — His master declared he was the best scratcher in the family; and now he will not suffer any other servant to draw a nail upon ...

— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett

... they fall to the branches of the parent tree, and to those of its lowly neighbours. Certainly some proportion of the seeds which reach the ground must be borne hither and thither by the agency of that eternal scratcher, the scrub fowl. But even a bird of such immensely proportionate strength may be seriously troubled by them. A case in point may be cited. A dog retrieving a scrub fowl, which had fallen in the vicinity of an "Ahm-moo" tree, emerged with it entirely enveloped with ...

— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield