She heard the skittering of small animals across the pavement.

She could hear the hissing, the dry skittering of the things that liked the dark.

The evening hummed with the skittering of insects on the hot, dry breeze.

For eight hundred years, those bones in the walls had been listening to nothing more than the dry skittering of lizards.

As he did, the can shifted again, and this time he heard the skittering of small claws.

The ratcheting sound as the cuffs were tightened stopped the skittering of her brain.

And then, in a skittering, chittering rush, it came.

Lizards made their skittering, herky-jerky progress from one stall to another.

There had been no skittering of Khys's blade from his grasp upon the first or second stroke.

After skittering to the ceiling week after week, they ventured near.

With a start, she saw the dark shape of the screeling skittering across the moonlit wall, like some huge, black bug.

The thing that had been skittering intangibly along the edges of my consciousness coalesced suddenly.

Close at hand was the skittering of a small animal through the grass and the dry fragile sound of leaves turning.

The setting is so quiet that sunbathers can hear the skittering of fiddler crabs.

He could feel at the tapering fringes of his own sensorium a skittering, bright presence.

She heard a skittering, a low and throaty growl, a shrilling abruptly cut off.

Jander heard a skittering of nails along the stone floor, and three large wolves trotted into the study.

Beyond it Jordan saw skittering movement.

Several rows of overhead fluorescent lights gave off harsh light, but the room was still full of skittering shadows.

Nikolaj Hubbe was hilarious but almost over the top as the skittering, cheeky cowboy of the third movement.

The most impressive of the new songs was "Game Over," with a skittering, robotic video-game beat.

The sensorium carried skittering wails of despair, of horrible surprise.

He walked on, his mind open to the sounds of the forest, the late birdsong, the skittering of small animals in the undergrowth.

A skittering of midges thickened the air.

Pop made his way toward it in the skittering, skating gait one uses in one-sixth gravity.

She could see a light skittering around inside the office.

Sure enough, in he skittered, but several others came with him.

His mind skittered over that to what he had become.

It must have skittered there when he was cut down.

It skittered across the floor and came to a rest some feet away.

But with huge dark eyes that would look at you and then skitter away.

She heard a sound at the door and skittered behind the screen again.

He heard them skittering past his hole in the ground.

He watched her come, trying not to show the fear skittering inside.

Then he got the gun away and it skittered across the floor.

By then, my thoughts were skittering around what I'd seen and knew.

Then he shook my hand and skittered out the front door.

He quickly skittered into the shadows off to the side.

In the living room, broken glass skittered across the floor.

The chips skittered across the table to land in the center with the rest.

She stood up so suddenly her chair skittered back into the wall.

But for each one flung away, three more skittered up to take its place.

The gun fell from his hand and skittered across the floor.

Two yellow eyes caught in the light, held for a second, and skittered away.

He skittered away as she glared at the others in his group.

Until they all either fell into the planet or skittered off.

He skittered towards the door but turned at the last minute.

When it's time to be funny, he skitters over the top.

The wind was making up, and dust skittered down the street.

He put his fork down, too hard, and it skittered along the table.