She tapped her pencil against the paper, frowning at the scrawled handwriting.
He took the pen and paper and scrawled down a number before handing it to her.
The names of two villages have been hastily scrawled in the sky.
He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled over with notes and figures.
Maybe he didn't stop Edith Shipton from taking her own life and maybe he couldn't have done so if he'd tried, but the bottom line scrawled in bold print said he stood idly by while it happened.