Scratch voice. Her voice had thinned, too; the slightest difference in treble had crept in, not a rasp or a scratch, but a waver that troubled Melody. Obviously, it's about voice. So what's kind of voice is scratch? It'd great if you drop a link.n

Caribou hides Russell in the frontier buckskins that maybe reminded Guy of the adventure books of his youth, serials starring men who scraped caribou hides and forded frigid Alaskan rivers. Guy had been with Russell ever since. What does "caribou hides" mean?

A sliver spoon in her mouth. C.Z. didn’t take too much seriously. She never had; she’d been born with a silver spoon in her mouth, but had removed it at her first gurgle and flung it across the nursery. But when she’d read In Cold Blood almost ten years earlier, she, like all of Truman’s swans, had been stunned into an uncomfortable bashfulness around him. Suddenly their gay, gossipy little friend, arm candy, pocket change, was another creature entirely. A giant, a literary sentinel. She wondered how she’d ever imagined that they looked at the world in the same way, thought the same thoughts, shared the same vices and delights and interests. Gurgle: to make a sound like a liquid boiling or bubbling. Nursery: In a house for the special use of a young children. [but had removed it at her first gurgle and flung it across the nursery.]___But I've no idea what it means.

Crumbling beneath recorded-sized crowds? “Preserving nature is not the straightforward proposition it seemed to be back in Theodore Roosevelt’s day. Rough-riding politicos can no longer enshrine wilderness by simply removing indigenous people and cordoning off a few rugged sections of landscape. National parks today face conundrums of which Roosevelt could never have dreamed: climate change melting the glaciers in Glacier National Park; the systemic slaughter of nearly a thousand “excess” Yellowstone bison last winter; and across the country, park infrastructures crumbling beneath record-sized crowds and an $11.9 billion maintenance backlog.” What does "park infrastructures crumbling beneath record-sized crowds..." mean? Specifically the "crumbling"?

What does "turned-up" mean in this context? “He rose, stretched, way up on his tiptoes, glimpses of his crimson socks peeking out beneath the turned-up hem of his plaid pants”

Hair style. “An incongruous wide satin bow corralled the front of her hair back from her forehead. \ Basically, it's a hair style description. The thing irrate me is after dig the words meaning still you can't comprehend. So would you like to drop a link best matching.