A mouse scuttled from behind it and scurried along the wall and into the shadows away from the candlelight "My cellmate," Mr. Arnold said and smiled.
A light touch and not even a mouse could have scuttled through that ballroom without setting off the alarm all over the house - and the city.
A mouse scuttled across the floor, huddled against the baked- clay hearth to get warm.
Then ghosts began to walk, and the mice scuttled back to their holes in alarm, for white figures glided from room to room, till all were assembled in the little chamber.
Out of the corner of my eye I saw something move; the mouse scuttling behind a cabinet.
The two mice scuttled impatiently around in their glass transports.
Only the mice had scuttled, and the fire glowed red in the dark room.
The remains of a table and chair told of more ordered times, spiders were everywhere, a mouse scuttled across the dirt floor startling the younger children who squeaked with fear.