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  • He became aware, then, of sound: not the music of the spheres, by any means, but a low, crusty, constricted noise, scrumbling harshly out of the membrane, almost as though it were clearing its throat.

    Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • He became aware, then, of sound: not the music of the spheres, by any means, but a low, crusty, constricted noise, scrumbling harshly out of the membrane, almost as though it were clearing its throat.

    Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • She had been her father's companion and aid, present at the sittings, preparing his brushes and colors, and painting in backgrounds and accessories; and would willingly show his palette and explain his methods and theories of color, his predilection for scrumbling shadows thinly in black and then painting boldly in with body color.

    Worldly Ways and Byways Eliot Gregory 1884

  • Frenetic random activity periods (FRAPs), also colloquially known as zoomies, scrumbling, midnight crazies,[1] or mad half-hours,[2] are random bursts of energy occurring in dogs and cats in which they run frenetically, commonly in circles.

    Frenetic random activity periods - Wikipedia Contributors to Wikimedia projects 2026

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