Scranny

Rat. I’ll slily seize and Let blood from her weasand,— Creeping through crevice, and chink, and cranny, With my snaky tail, and my sides so scranny.

Observe in the whole lot, from the magnificent lord of the herd down to the scranniest runt, the superlative of self-reliance, the air of puffy arrogance and solid disregard of public or private opinion such as few of us attain.

“Well, in the first place," I explained the little lady, "they've got three of the scranniest kids, and the mother herself don't look very strong."

Among the affairs of men their voices, single or united, amounted to no more than a scranny interruption easily put aside;

'Look at him, said Ada, pursing her lips. 'Is he fighting material? If Hitler's crack Panzer divisions see a scranny feller like him coming towards them, will they panic?"