Word: scruff
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Braggart!" George Luks charged down, seized the loud one by the scruff of the neck; "I'm old enough to be your father, but I'll lay you cold if you don't apologize. You're not talking to George Luks now, you're talking to 'Chicago Whitey,' the best barroom fighter in America. . . ." When most of the scandalized audience had fled, Artist Luks subsided, laughed, smoked a cigaret and then-for the benefit of a few adoring disciples-painted a skillful little sketch...
Clinic orderlies are used to screams and struggles. Moving resolutely among the obstreperous children the orderlies filled eye-sprays from a big jar, seized children by the scruff of the neck, vigorously sprayed their eyes...
...fancy that this is about the spot," said the leader of the dignified gentlemen, stopping in front of one of the Cecil lobby's marble pillars. And to the astonishment of foreign onlookers he seized one of the choir boys by the scruff, hustled him forward and bumped his head vigorously against the pillar. The procession moved on into the dining room, the doors were closed behind them...
...With a bellow like a bull's the giant Mura-lov, onetime commander of the Moscow garrison and Trotsky's most devoted follower, elbowed his way through the crowd, scaled the side of the house like a human fly, mounted the roof, caught the offender by the scruff of the neck and the seat of the trousers, carried him to the edge of the roof, and dropped him from a safe height to the ground, where, terrified, he scampered...
...would always laugh till the tears came into his eyes at the thought of how 'that old pig looked as he rolled over on his back with his four legs stiff in the air,' and of how the farmer came out and took him by the scruff of his neck straight home...