scurry , auch: skurry

After a second swallow, the youth turns and scurries, not into the house, but downhill to the south.

This week, as United scurries to prepare the third version of its application, government officials are deciding their next move.

There were yells from that quarter, with sounds of frantic scurries.

There was a storm howling outside and rain lashed the windows in angry scurries.

The ship is now so close that if a deckhand scurries into view I will be able to tell what he is wearing.

They moved in scurries: moments of stillness, followed by hasty dashes toward Richard.

Lizard scurries and tiger roars, and out comes God Himself!

There were scurries to translate.

Short ROund scurries forward and grabs the brake from Indy.

Ashley Tuttle, as the cupid figure, married pertness and precision, not least in her delicious scurries on toe.

Ferneley specialised in painting "scurries", panoramic paintings showing a sequence of events.

Buster Brown accented his oldtime wide-ranging bent-knee bravura with scurries and stamps.

Jaddy scurries through the mud toward Dorrin.

I went into the living-room and stood for a long time listening for scurries and whispers and footsteps, but again there was silence.

The dreary bushes were waving their papery leaves, the breeze raised occasional scurries of reddish dust, but his eyes were not on these things.

CREEPY scurries over to the body and reclaims his trusty dagger.

Her forceful scurries on toe and leaps in the ballroom scene prepared the audience for the rapture of her balcony pas de deux.

"Snatch" scurries through its paces like a con on the lam, though the film seems less pleased with itself than "Lock" and gives the actors a bit more room.

Creeping sounds, that were probably caused by the rain as it sifted through the interwoven boughs; scurries as of little animals seeking deeper shelter against the storm.

Among the dancing foodstuffs, mention just be made of Rebecca Metzger, leading the mysterious Marzipan contingent with her delicious scurries and gargouillade leaps.

In the afternoon Kristin Long, exuberant but sharp and precise with wonderful scurries on toe, and Ming-Hai Wu, vibrantly birdlike, were perfect.

The fair promise of the morning had departed, the sky was overcast, and a wind, blowing in strong gusts, was rising rapidly, driving before it occasional scurries of snow.

Galen scurries through the connecting door to the Marshall's suite, returning even before Creslin finishes adjusting the formal sword-belt over the silksheen trousers that slither against his skin.

Even then, Randolph could feel transient scurries of panic in the corners of his brain, like sudden bursts of tumble weed blowing across a landscape that was supposed to be desolate and utterly still.

The little man scurried after them without looking back once.

I scurried away, trying to act as if nothing had happened.

I heard scurrying inside, but no one came to the door.

She scurried across to the car, not looking at him.

She scurried from the room and out of the house.

He scurried out of the room, never looking at me.

A few have even scurried out before the end of the first act.

I'm sure I could feel things scurrying around my feet in the dark.

Then, taking her children by the hand, she scurried off.

The other two guys were scurrying up, coming for her.

His men were scurrying along the way that they had come.

And he sent three men scurrying back to get them.

His people scurried around to make sure that it happened.

Soon it would scurry away and be seen no more.

You might see somebody scurrying about later at night or in the morning.

But he followed them outside and scurried for the open field.

So we scurried back to the safety of his room.

Only two others in the entire room were not scurrying about.

Then she scurried back and took her seat by me.

"I really had to scurry around to find something for them," she said.

They scurried across the floor from one piece of cover to the next.

I spent much of the following summer scurrying around to make certain that everything was in place.

The major scurried away from the staff car where he had been talking to the general through the window.

They're almost all scurrying around to book the same acts.

I told Spirit, and she scurried off to do it.