Back of neck

Usage examples of scruff.

Then, as she moved, he stopped and caught up Bramble by the scruff of his neck.

He took Marvin Meskin up by the scruff of his neck and on the way to the elevator collected the bellboy.

Viscount Rosser from the table by the scruff of his neck, and give him a good thrashing for being so foolish and unfaithful.

He seized Warth by the scruff of his neck and dropped him with a thump beside the other wizards.

It was Banat on the doorstep, holding a small person by the scruff of the neck.

On the way, he was grabbed by the scruff of the neck and dragged to the fort.

Zanita was holding a drenched Hambone over the water by the scruff of his neck.

Rapid fire now: about the Scruff and Jackie in Johannesburg or Monrovia and the hushed word throughout the illicit arms trade that something was going down at a New York airport this week so stay clear.

A guard with his sword on his hip pursues the irrepressible Nardo up and down the black curtain, seizes him by the scruff of the neck and slips his head through the noose.

Holding Aziz an inch off the floor by the scruff of the coat, he plunged his hand into the pocket and came out with a wadded length of black fabric.

Fosh-bal-soj listened to their complaints and then with a sudden sweep of his right hand seized Bradley by the scruff of the neck and hurled him sprawling through the doorway upon the floor of the chamber.

So she took me to Ersh, the Senior Assimilator and Eldest of our Web, who promptly grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and tossed me off her mountain.

Peez said, picking the little bear up by the scruff of his neck and sticking him in the crook of her arm.

Raina emerged from the bush holding a blue fox by the scruff of its neck.

Her skin already looks exfoliated, plucked, scruffed, moisturized, and made up until she could be a piece of refinished furniture.