Mid-album, the thin skitter of "Boiling Water" unfurls into a seriously nagging tune that will sound sweet in H&M. From Wordnik.com. [Magnetic Man by Magnetic Man – review] Reference
The smile on her face freezes as coins skitter and bounce across the counter, to the floor at her feet, and she looks up, confused. From Wordnik.com. [Better] Reference
The smile on her face freezes as coins skitter and bounce across the counter, to the floor at her feet, and she looks up, confused. From Wordnik.com. [Better] Reference
"If I wasn't so stove up, an 'nobody wasn't lookin', I'd jes 'skitter' round this here yard like a colt!". From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch] Reference
"If I was n't so stove up, an 'nobody was n't lookin', I 'd jes' skitter 'round this here yard like a colt!". From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, by Alice Caldwell Hegan.] Reference
She wanted to run, skitter away, but she couldn't. From Wordnik.com. [Cherokee Dad]
That made a more pronounced chill skitter down my spine. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
Fluffy had taken advantage of the open door to skitter in. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
He saw Tasslehoff skitter across the courtyard and into a doorway. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons of Autumn Twilight]
Fitch looked up and felt icy tingling terror skitter up his spine. From Wordnik.com. [Soul of the Fire]
His finger shoulder and began to skitter across her "Me, neither.". From Wordnik.com. [A Man Called Jesse]
She choked, seeing a dark shape suddenly skitter away from her light. From Wordnik.com. [War of the Twins]
Dad wrote me out an O.K. to skitter up this close to the Launching Area. From Wordnik.com. [Next Door, Next World] Reference
I duck past him into the living room and skitter over to the balcony door. From Wordnik.com. [Incidentally] Reference
They skitter to and fro as they frolic from one patch of grass to another. From Wordnik.com. [Bunnies] Reference
His finger reached her shoulder and began to skitter across her collarbone. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Called Jesse]
But her own heartbeat was not loud enough to drown out the skitter on the ice. From Wordnik.com. [Ice Hunt]
We skitter down and pick our way to a promontory that dissects the flowing water. From Wordnik.com. [When John Ruskin and John Everett Millais took the high road] Reference
Instantly it rose up on four tiny rubber feet and tried to skitter away from him. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
Occasionally kids would get away from their elders and skitter out in front of me. From Wordnik.com. [Double Star]
Moving another notch down caused the picture to skitter back and forth on the screen. From Wordnik.com. [The Time Traders] Reference
A faint skitter of some small creature, wandered from its place into the home of majesty. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
As a result the molecules skitter across the frozen surface like nonpareils on a ceramic floor. From Wordnik.com. [Science Of The Season] Reference
Whether they skitter about the floor or sit on a bookshelf, toy cars have enduring mass appeal. From Wordnik.com. [Model Cars Ride Again] Reference
I would, you know, skitter along the surface and every month I'd have to do something different. From Wordnik.com. [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story] Reference
A few skitter uphill on the tails of the riders looking like loose horses in the Grand National. From Wordnik.com. [Tour de France 2010: Stage 17 - as it happened] Reference
When I hear something skitter by my ear, I try to look at it, but my eyes are the raw red of grief. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Acts]
Finally, he rolled on his side in time to see the spike rat skitter out of sight behind a rounded stone. From Wordnik.com. [The Order War]
Two kalimbas -- better known as African thumb pianos -- skitter under her Waits-like vocal in "Green Grass.". From Wordnik.com. [Scarlett Johansson Covers Tom Waits] Reference
Unlike the other horse, the mare did not skitter at the pulse of order, although Justen had not directed it at her. From Wordnik.com. [The Order War]
One part of the slope downward was almost clear of bushes and trees, but his eyes seemed to skitter away from the trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Order War]
Jazz kicked it under the car with a skitter of metal on concrete, then reached through the window to shut off the headlights. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Bargain]
Gru and his minions have all these weird contraptions: a jet car that looks sort of steam-powered; cookie robots that skitter like insects. From Wordnik.com. ['Despicable Me': Oddly Adorable] Reference
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