Character

Eustace Scrubb

Also known as Eustace, Eustace Clarence Scrubb, Scrubb

A Pevensie cousin whose first voyage to Narnia changes him profoundly. After his transformation from a dragon, he returns as a loyal friend and joins the quests for Rilian and King Tirian.

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In the chronicles

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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader29 cited passages⌄

Chapter I · paragraph 1There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. His parents called him Eustace Clarence and masters called him Scrubb. I can't tell…Open passage →
Chapter I · paragraph 2Eustace Clarence liked animals, especially beetles, if they were dead and pinned on a card. He liked books if they were…Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 3"Where is Eustace?" asked Lucy.Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 38…cy's conscience smote her and she said, "I think I really must go and see Eustace. Seasickness is horrid, you know. If I had my old cordial with me I could cure him."Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 13"You'll come, will you?" said Caspian to Eustace, who had come on deck with his hand bandaged.Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 14"Anything to get off this blasted boat," said Eustace.Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 46Thus Eustace was produced, and sulky he certainly looked; for though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps …Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 7When it was over Eustace made the following entry in his diary.Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 20What awaited them on this island was going to concern Eustace more than anyone else, but it cannot be told in his words because after September 11 he forgot about keeping hi…Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 1…y after the second helping of goat did Edmund say, "Where's that blighter Eustace?"Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 2Meanwhile Eustace stared round the unknown valley. It was so narrow and deep, and the precipices which surrounded it so sheer, th…Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 10…isputed afterwards whether Lucy or Edmund said it first--"You're not--not Eustace by any chance?"Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 11And Eustace nodded his terrible dragon head and thumped his tail in the sea and everyone skipped back (some of the sailors …Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 1…own land which some of them had seen when flying over the mountains while Eustace was still a dragon. It was a low green island inhabited by nothing but rabbits and a few goats, but from the ru…Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 5…r fish nor gull. Then they had a day that rained hard till the afternoon. Eustace lost two games of chess to Reepicheep and began to get rather like his old and disagreeable self again, and Edm…Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 17…ny windowed, and partially covered with ivy. Everything was so still that Eustace said, "I think it's empty," but Caspian silently pointed to the column of smoke which rose from one chimney.Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 20"Machinery!" said Eustace. "I do believe we've come to a civilised country at last."Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 2"I'm beginning to feel very inquisitive about these people," whispered Eustace to Edmund. "Do you think they're human at all? More like huge grasshoppers or giant frogs, I should say."Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 4…red currants, curds, cream, milk, and mead. The others liked the mead but Eustace was sorry afterwards that he had drunk any.Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 68…bouncing like footballs and agreeing with one another in loud voices till Eustace said, "I wish the Magician would make them inaudible instead of invisible." (He was soon sorry he had spoken be…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 9Lucy and Eustace didn't speak but they felt very glad inside at the turn things seemed to be taking. But all at once the clear v…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 20…as in the bows with his line ready to take soundings. Reepicheep, Edmund, Eustace and Caspian, glittering in mail, were with him. Drinian took the tiller.Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 4…and there with a low bushy growth which Edmund and Lucy took for heather. Eustace, who was really rather good at botany, said it wasn't, and he was probably right; but it was something of very …Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 7"Towers, I think," said Eustace.Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 14"Do you mean you were flying in the air?" Eustace blurted out.Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 19"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 58"But look here," said Eustace, "this is all rot. The world's round--I mean, round like a ball, not like a table."Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 16"They can't be real lilies--not what we call lilies," said Eustace.Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 20"What's he going to do?" whispered Eustace to Edmund. "There's a queer look in his eyes."Open passage →

The Silver Chair32 cited passages⌄

Chapter I · paragraph 12…ng up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name unfortunately was Eustace Scrubb, but he wasn't a bad sort.Open passage →
Chapter I · paragraph 15Scrubb saw that she wasn't quite herself yet and very sensibly offered her a peppermint. He had one too. Presently Jil…Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 3…wish we'd never come to this dreadful place," said Jill. "I don't believe Scrubb knew any more about it than I do. Or if he did, he had no business to bring me here without warning me what it …Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 10They were the first words she had heard since Scrubb had spoken to her on the edge of the cliff. For a second she stared here and there, wondering who had spoken. T…Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 1What made Scrubb look so dingy (and Jill too, if she could only have seen herself) was the splendour of their surroundings. I ha…Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 6"Scrubb!" she whispered, grabbing his arm. "Scrubb, quick! Do you see anyone you know?"Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 13…utifully warm and soft but there was nothing to hold on by. "I wonder how Scrubb liked his ride!" thought Jill. And just as she was thinking this, with a horrid plunge they had left the window…Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 22"Is that you, Scrubb?" said Jill.Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 2"Oh, come on, Pole, buck up," said Scrubb's voice. "After all, it is an adventure."Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 4…It was uncanny to hear two voices in the dark air a little distance away; Scrubb and his owl were talking to one another. "He doesn't sound tired," thought Jill. She did not realise that he ha…Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 2"I suppose that's our way!" said Scrubb, pointing left and west to where a stream flowed down from the moor through a shallow gorge. But the Marsh-wigg…Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 13"Are they aiming at us?" asked Scrubb.Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 7…bove her. The next thing she noticed was, naturally, the anxious faces of Scrubb and Puddleglum looking down at her from the edge.Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 8"Are you hurt, Pole?" shouted Scrubb.Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 1"Go on, Pole, do your stuff," whispered Scrubb.Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 2…r mouth was so dry that she couldn't speak a word. She nodded savagely at Scrubb.Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 3Scrubb and Puddleglum both did their best, but girls do that kind of thing better than boys. Even boys do it better th…Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 9… a moment Jill did not realise the full meaning of this. But she did when Scrubb's eyes opened wide with horror and he said:Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 5"What does she want with us?" asked Scrubb cautiously.Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 16"Think how I felt on that cliff, Pole," said Scrubb. "You go first, Puddleglum, and I'll come after her."Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 3"It's a bit rough luck on them, isn't it?" said Scrubb.Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 10…, "I wonder what game that witch is really playing with this young fool." Scrubb was thinking, "He's a great baby, really: tied to that woman's apron strings; he's a sap." And Jill was thinkin…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 15"Oh, don't be so silly," said Scrubb, who was fighting hard against the enchantment of the sweet smell and the thrumming. "As if you didn't know! It…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 28"No," said Jill and Scrubb, "never was such a world."Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 1All felt that they had earned what Scrubb called a "breather". The Witch had locked the door and told the Earthmen not to disturb her, so there was no da…Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 3"If you ask me----" began Puddleglum, when Scrubb interrupted.Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 2"Great Scott," exclaimed Eustace, "are there other lands still lower down?"Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 9"Why?" asked Eustace anxiously. "What's so dreadful about it?"Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 5"What do you see through it?" asked Eustace.Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 12"Why the dickens couldn't you have held her feet?" said Eustace.Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 2Jill sat up and looked around. Puddleglum and Eustace were lying not far away, both fast asleep.Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 9"Where's the Prince?" was the first question of Eustace and Puddleglum as soon as they had been waked.Open passage →

The Last Battle24 cited passages⌄

Chapter V · paragraph 16"I'm Eustace Scrubb and this is Jill Pole," said the Boy. "And we were here once before, ages and ages ago, more than a year ago by…Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 17"Ha!" cried Tirian, "are you then that Eustace and that Jill who rescued King Rilian from his long enchantment?"Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 1…rough Giant-Land in the days of Prince Rilian. Then he had tried to teach Eustace how to use his sword and shield. Eustace had learned quite a lot about sword fighting on his earlier adventures…Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 4…ike a curst, cruel, proud lord of Calormen. If I draw my sword then thou, Eustace, must do likewise and let Jill leap behind us and stand with an arrow on the string. But if I cry 'Home,' then …Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 12He flew upon the chief soldier like lightning, Eustace, who had drawn his sword when he saw the King draw his, rushed at the other one: his face was deadly pale, but …Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 14"Well struck, Eustace!" cried Tirian, clapping him on the back. "Now, Dwarfs, you are free. Tomorrow I will lead you to free all Narn…Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 4"What was it?" said Eustace in a whisper.Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 6"Then that--that thing--was Tash?" said Eustace.Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 5…d before me like a snake last night in the wood and took Puzzle: and you, Eustace, killed your man. But you are too young to share in such a bloody end as we others must meet to-night or, it ma…Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 6… what you say. We're going to stick with you whatever happens, aren't we, Eustace?"Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 28…s face. Its big green eyes never blinked. ("Cool as a cucumber," muttered Eustace. "It knows it has nothing to fear.") The Ape, chuckling and making faces, shuffled across beside the Cat: put u…Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 41…ster," but the officers call their senior officers, "My Father." Jill and Eustace didn't know this but, after looking this way and that, they saw the speaker, for of course people at the sides …Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 5…, see. We're here," and when, after that, the Bear and the Boar came too, Eustace began to feel that perhaps, after all, everything might be going to come right. But Tirian gazed round and saw …Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 15…u may before they reach us. Boar and Bear next to her. Poggin on my left, Eustace on my right. Hold the right wing, Jewel. Stand by him, Puzzle, and use your hoofs. Hover and strike, Farsight. …Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 2…learly both the shape of the man and the shape of what he carried. It was Eustace.Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 3…he door than they. Before they had covered half the distance he had flung Eustace in and shut the door on him. Half a dozen more Calormenes had run up behind him. They formed line on the open s…Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 4"Here goes, then!" said Eustace. And they all began to eat.Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 6When they had eaten enough, Eustace said to King Peter, "You haven't yet told us how you got here. You were just going to, when King Tirian turned …Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 2…s that stretch away to the North beyond the River Shribble. Then Jill and Eustace remembered how once long ago, in the deep caves beneath those moors, they had seen a great giant asleep and bee…Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 12…he Door, in on Aslan's right. There were some queer specimens among them. Eustace even recognised one of those very Dwarfs who had helped to shoot the Horses. But he had no time to wonder about…Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 22"It would have to have been a jolly good holiday," said Eustace. "I bet there isn't a country like this anywhere in our world. Look at the colours? You couldn't get a blue lik…Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 34"Yes," said Eustace. "And we saw it all destroyed and the sun put out."Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 1…t be special reasons for stopping, and it was a special reason which made Eustace presently shout:Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 5"It's all very well for him," said Eustace, but Jewel also cried out:Open passage →

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