His fingers scrabbled on the chuck, trying to get the bit loose.

For a moment his fingers scrabbled feebly at the floor.

For a moment his fingers scrabbled at the surface of the rock, and then, abruptly, he was falling through the air.

Her fingers found a surface at last, and scrabbled for a hold.

His fingers scrabbled on the frame that held the panels.

Raising a hand, I felt along the top, but my fingers scrabbled over smooth bare surface.

But, though her fingers scrabbled in the air, she could not touch its surface.

Her fingers scrabbled for purchase on one of the planks: it was time she let some outside world in.

The ground was under him because his fingers were scrabbling into cold mud.

Bond's fingers scrabbled for a hold in the stuff of the bunk.