Indeed, dermatologists tell how those afflicted with paroxysmal itching, including kidney dialysis patients and victims of Hodgkin's disease, occasionally scratch themselves into insensibility, or scald themselves with boiling water.

In 1994, Khan had admitted that, during Test matches, he "occasionally scratched the side of the ball and lifted the seam."

For a good three or four minutes, they conferred with one another, occasionally scratching their kaffiyehs with their rifles, as if trying to remember a punch line.

The whole countryside seemed to be scratching itself awake-lazily, luxuriously, though occasionally scratching so hard its nails hit bone, that old cold calcium that lies beneath our tingles.

Dupri appears as a magistrate in a judicial wig, convicting the tardy duo in a kangaroo court, pounding a gavel and occasionally scratching turntables.

Janniver sat square to the table, big arms resting beside his beer, occasionally scratching at his short yellow hair, or rubbing his blunt nose.

The creature at the door whined once in a while, scratched occasionally, but never went away.

He occasionally scratched his cheek with an index finger, and a few times took a sip of water from a cup on his table.

Noose pawed at his mangled mass of brilliant gray hair and walked slowly around the small room, shaking his head and occasionally scratching his crotch.

Such of the gentlemen as had a brief to carry, carried it in as conspicuous a manner as possible, and occasionally scratched their noses therewith, to impress the fact more strongly on the observation of the spectators.