We may strive and Scrat and fend, but it's little we can do arter all-the big things come and go wi' no striving o' our'n-they do, that they do; and I think you're in the right on it to keep the little un, Master Marner, seeing as it's been sent to you, though there's folks as thinks different.
"Silas Marner The Weaver of Raveloe"
George Eliot
Yo' cornd bridle women folks, and it's happen as weel yo' cornd; for if they mutn't talk they'd Scrat, and that 'ud be a deal wur.
"Lancashire Idylls (1898)"
Marshall Mather
"An' niver a word should we a' known," added the family-comb-bearer, "but for that blessed cat of ourn, as Scrat it up."
"The White Peacock"
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence