"Scurrying" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are taken on the stage, there was a scurrying down the gravel and out of the sunshine a bare-headed, tall lad was ...
— August First • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews and Roy Irving Murray
... you?" Warren called, as the wind filled the sail and sent Tehei and me scurrying out ...
— The Cruise of the Snark • Jack London
... them thus far seemed tranquil enough. But hardly half a mile to the right front of their supporting comrades, afoot now, and stopping every minute to let drive a long-range shot at some objects scurrying away over the slopes to the south, "the Kid" was running, and ever and anon turning to beckon them on. One glance told the experienced hands what those fleeing rascals were,—Indians, fresh from some deviltry, their swift ponies bounding over the little gullies and watercourses ...
— Under Fire • Charles King
... sordid, pitiful, cruel tale. Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sung; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to the sea amid the bleaching bones of the dead; for four hundred years the sharks followed the scurrying ships; for four hundred years America was strewn with the living and dying millions of a transplanted race; for four hundred years Ethiopia stretched ...
— The Negro • W.E.B. Du Bois
... to be an unusual amount of shipping at the Albany wharves as we glided in, and a great number of wagons and people scurrying about. In fact, I had never before observed such a bustle in Albany streets, but thought nothing of it at the moment, for I had not seen the town since war began. As the schooner dropped anchor at the wharf we were still arguing; as, arm in arm, we followed our two horses and ...
— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers
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