The thief will skulk behind a tree after the wrong person has been caught for the crime. From LearnThat.org.
A number of foxes a "skulk" are mysteries of philology into which I will not enter. From Wordnik.com. [Amusements in Mathematics] Reference
You would not have me skulk in the hour of danger. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Hour Stories] Reference
Malay youths don motorcycle helmets and skulk away. From Wordnik.com. [Stopped In Its Tracks] Reference
Why should < i > he skulk out with a football?. From Wordnik.com. [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference
'Our foe was no skulk in his ship, I tell you (said he). From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
There was no reason to skulk in the purgatory of the bower. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Attila at least was an open soldier and did not skulk under the Red. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
But you do not skulk in woods where he must pass, and shoot him down. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Novice]
I prefer them to those who skulk around manipulating behind the scenes. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
"As long as we are only four against a hundred I dare only skulk," I answered. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
"We do not skulk any longer like rats or city men in dark holes," he told them. From Wordnik.com. [The Defiant Agents] Reference
The Breeze, as he watched the injured Billy skulk away, felt a twinge of remorse. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Demonkeeping]
And I'm not allowed to skulk around looking too hideous because of other commitments. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Elizabeth Hurley Talks About Playing the Devil in 'Bedazzled'; J.K. Rowling Discusses the Surprising Success of 'Harry Potter' - October 20, 2000] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (singing): Swine flu, swine flu, why'd you (INAUDIBLE) skulk at you?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2009] Reference
I am going to continue to scorch their racist arses every time they they skulk back in. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Hits Obama's Small Town Comments Again: "Elitist And Out Of Touch"] Reference
Boers, who usually prefer to skulk under cover, made incipient rushes at certain points. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Then I could skulk around in the shadows and, I hoped, not have to answer any questions. From Wordnik.com. [Four To Score]
Skulking where he needed to skulk, striding confidently when the streetscape required it?. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
SMITH: I used to just skulk around the hotel and wait for her discarded Italian boyfriends. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2003] Reference
He does not shuffle or prevaricate, dodge or skulk; but is honest, upright and straightforward. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
"I didn't mean to skulk, sir," said Frank, startled from his day-dream by this rough salutation. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, March 9, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
When they are drunk, they neither yell, nor shout, nor stagger, but skulk along like beaten hounds. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861] Reference
Andy falls, but he doesn't skulk around the White House, using the Secret Service as pimps with beepers. From Wordnik.com. [Hail To The Movie Chief] Reference
The elevators lie at the opposite end of the room and I skulk across the carpet, checking my Blackberry. From Wordnik.com. [One Last Thing Before You Go] Reference
And yet the prime minister of Israel essentially had to skulk into the White House under cover of darkness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2009] Reference
They now made fires around the mammoth to keep off the wolves and hyenas that had already begun to skulk about. From Wordnik.com. [The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone] Reference
He'll live for years, travelling until old age and arthritis get the better of him, then he'll go home and skulk. '. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
"We can even walk about there openly without having to skulk about among the trees avoiding mantraps," Geraint said. From Wordnik.com. [Truly]
Strange figures would appear at odd hours, closet themselves with him for much of the day, and skulk away into the night. From Wordnik.com. [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]
The "irons," innocent of coal, and polished to the tip, skulk and cower sympathetically into the extreme corner of the fender. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841] Reference
And yet, just this last week, the prime minister of Israel essentially had to skulk into the White House under cover of darkness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2009] Reference
If I was in Gaul-across-the-Alps I could skulk there until Crassus celebrated his ovation and his troops returned to civilian life. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
If the Kentuckian could locate Rennie, and ride in to his camp — or skulk close enough to it — that should bring the troops down. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Spurs] Reference
Many nights Paul would skulk along the river-banks and peer over into the Thames from the place where we had been struck into the stream. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Trot runs away whenever he can get a chance; Brutus has forever got something the matter with him; and Cicero has come to be a real skulk. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
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