When Baldwin was thirteen years old, he was playing with some children, who were trying to cause each other pain by scratching each others ' arms.

When provoked, or for defense, coatis can be fierce fighters ; their strong jaws, sharp canine teeth, and fast scratching paws, along with a tough hide sturdily attached to the underlying muscles, make it very difficult for potential predators ( e. g., dogs or jaguars ) to seize the smaller mammal.

When foraging on the ground eastern towhees use a scratching technique where both feet kick back simultaneously.

* DJ Milf: turntables, scratching & samples on " When You're Mine " & " Unbelievable "

" When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

When Mr. Burns introduces his new religion, most of the sequence is a parody of the promotional video of Michael Jackson's 1995 album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I. Willie scratching his nails along the church window to get Marge and Reverend Lovejoy's attention is a reference to the 1975 film Jaws, in which the character Quint performs a similar action.

When it is perceived as itchiness, it may trigger the scratch reflex and because of this, some people who are suffering from the sensation are at risk of causing skin damage through excessive scratching.

When applied correctly, the value of a truck bed liner is that it resists denting and scratching and holds shape firmly yet is flexible enough to not crack when navigating through rough terrain.

When a man distinguished himself by deeds of valour, or any form of meritorious conduct, he was often decorated by a chief by being presented with the feathers of this bird.

When both were prepared for flight, Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too high, because the heat of the sun would melt the wax, nor too low, because the sea foam would soak the feathers.

When feathered it was similar in color to that of the adult female, but its feathers were tipped with white, giving it a scaled appearance.

When swimming, Black Swans hold their necks arched or erect, and often carry their feathers or wings raised in an aggressive display.

When the gods saw Loki flying toward them with Þjazi right behind they lit a fire which burned Þjazi's feathers, causing him to fall to the ground where he was set upon and killed.

When preening, grebes eat their own feathers, and feed them to their young.

When it first emerges from its egg, the young Red-throated Loon is covered with fine soft down feathers.

When necessary, the Anhinga will dry out its wings and feathers, with the resemblance of the semicircular full-spread shape of its group of tail feathers while drying them out, to that of true meleagrine males lending the name " water turkey " to it.

When alarmed, Bachman ’ s Warbler jerked its tail and raised its crown feathers.

When conducting studies of such areas as the range of motion in the forelimbs, paleontologists like Phil Senter have taken the likely presence of wing feathers ( as present in all known dromaeosaurs with skin impressions ) into consideration.

When eating birds that are larger than a dusky thrush, most types of cats will pluck the feathers and then eat it, but the Iriomote cat will eat even large birds whole without removing the feathers.

When penguins molt, they are unable to forage as their new feathers are not waterproof yet ; therefore they fast over the entire molting period, which in African Penguins takes about 20 days.

When feeding, the Ruff frequently raises its back feathers, producing a loose pointed peak on the back ; this habit is shared only by the Black-tailed Godwit.

When perched a small amount of black can be seen in the wings, these are the flight feathers.

When roosting they face the wind so that if it rains the rain does not get up and under the feathers.

When perched a small amount of black can be seen in the wings, these are the flight feathers mentioned above.

When seen from above the tail bands are faintly marked on the lateral tail feathers and not as strongly marked as in the Eurasian Sparrowhawk.

The nest is an untidy shallow bowl, made of sticks and usually placed on a leafy branch 5 – 12 m high, at altitudes from sea level to over 1000 m. When breeding the birds have long feathers ( nuptial plumes ) on the neck, head and back.

When flying, it shows blackish flight feathers.

When flying, it shows blackish flight feathers and extensive white in the tail, the latter being a distinction from the similar but larger Red-eyed Dove.

When flying they expose a buff underwing and a chestnut colour of their flight feathers.

When alarmed or alert, the nape feathers are raised into a pointed crest.

When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.

When he saw the expression in her eyes, he knew he couldn't send them on.

When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.

When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

When I fell on my back, I saw a vulture hovering.

Joyce went on, `` When we'd finished, Lou -- Mr. Thor -- asked me to stay a little longer.

When we opened the door again for business and switched on the lights she said:

When he sank on his knees, they had allowed him to char without administering the stroke of mercy.

When he got closer to the tree, Matsuo noted the wild look on his face.

When he rolled on the left side, propping on his left elbow, Matsuo seized his hair and pulled him back over.

When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When you pass a church on an Irish bus, all the hands flurry in the sign of the cross.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When combined with the metaphysical notion that pure forms of this universe are best appreciated when least embodied in a material substratum, it becomes clear that while earth will be dross on a scale of material-formal ratios, celestial bodies will be of a subtle, quickened, ethereal existence, in whose embodiment pure form will be the dominant component and matter will be absent or remain subsidiary.

When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

Besides doing a single song, `` When The Sun Comes Out '', they worked on the ambitious American-Negro Suite, for voices and piano, as well as songs for films.

When I returned to make my report, the Hetman did not remember having sent me on the secret mission.

When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.

When the young biologist, Dr. Ballard, began to show interest in our daughter Elizabeth, this induced a corresponding interest, on our part, in him.

When he turns briefly to literary style, in the Third Book, he again looks to the effect on the audience.