Look at this-a sheet from a note-book, with ‘For God’s sake come at once-P.T.,’ scrawled upon it in pencil. It was he who invented that writing, which would pass as a child’s scrawl unless you just happened to have the key to it. Hence the ape-like tricks that he would play me, scrawling in my own hand blasphemies on the pages of my books, burning the letters and destroying the portrait of my father and indeed, had it not been for his fear of death, he would long ago have ruined himself in order to involve me in the ruin. (The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) When I called on Wednesday there was a letter with the West Kensington postmark upon it, and my name scrawled across the envelope in a handwriting which looked like a barbed-wire railing. “But I am still here, all here,” the hand scrawled more slowly and painfully than ever. (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) There was no maker’s name but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials “H. (The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) Three days later a message was left scrawled upon paper, and placed under a pebble upon the sundial. It was terrific, impossible and yet there it was, scrawled in black ink across the sheets of paper. (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) He had picked from a drawer a little tarnished cylinder, and, undoing the tape, he handed me a short note scrawled upon a half-sheet of slate-grey paper. Someone had scrawled graffiti across the wall.
Neither Lady Russell nor Mr Elliot could admire the letter but it did all that was wanted, in bringing three lines of scrawl from the Dowager Viscountess. SCRAWL definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary Meaning of scrawl in English scrawl verb T us / skrl / uk / skrl / to write something quickly, without trying to make your writing neat or easy to read: I scrawled a quick note to Judith and put it under her door.
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