HARRIS: If I may, first of all, coming back to the use of the word "skulking" into the White House. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2009] Reference
HARRIS: Christiane, if I may, first of all, coming back to the use of the word "skulking" into the White House. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2009] Reference
MONICA YOUN: It used to be that when corporations got involved in elections, they would do so kind of skulking around by subterfuge. From Wordnik.com. [Brennan Center for Justice] Reference
There are masked words droning and skulking about us in. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Sawyer skulking about and was warning him off the hacienda. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
Lanier was then skulking about in the timber along the lake. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
A half-starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Short-story] Reference
Paul had been skulking through the woods, but could not see us. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
So far they had avoided the highways, skulking through thicket and fields. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Smith, who has just arrived, says he ---- two men skulking along the road. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Grammar and Composition] Reference
Not a sound broke the stillness but the occasional cry of a skulking coyote. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
They drink mainly at night, skulking into the room as I drift off to slumber. From Wordnik.com. [Pussy Love] Reference
She had seen seven of them skulking in the wood along the brook, and watching the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
He's such a skulking cowardly figure just now that perhaps it wouldn't be well to try him. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
Behind them went skulking foxes, pole-cats, badgers, cowering hares, and bead-eyed weasels. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
The little nut-shell sped down the river, past snags, skulking crocodiles, and many unseen dangers. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference
There was a rumour of that got about, how you was going to shunt us on to them, you skulking blackguard. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
Even though he's forbidden to appear on Sirius's air until Jan. 9, Stern has already started skulking around. From Wordnik.com. [True Blue Howard] Reference
Depend upon it, this is the same fellow who was found skulking about the general's head-quarters this evening. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference
'We'll have to get rid of them southerners; they wouldn't face the crowd, and are skulking in the stable-yard. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah's School Friend] Reference
She remembered skulking beneath the Ocean City boardwalk as a child, building sand coves for jellyfish washed ashore. From Wordnik.com. [To-die-for] Reference
Even five blocks away, with my back to it, I could feel the old house skulking in the shadows. From Wordnik.com. [Every Time a Bell Rings] Reference
The family running into the apartment found the fox skulking in a corner, and the poor girl lying extended on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
"Because," Will answered, "there's some one skulking off down that passage, and it looks to me like that bum detective!". From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
They waited a moment or two longer, but Frank Sheldon's eyes detected no other skulking figure and he gave the word to move. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
'I am not skulking,' said the poor fellow, the furrows in whose bronzed and weatherbeaten cheek were running down with tears. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
The danger they faced was real enough (gun-toting Nazis skulking in hallways), so the enactment itself had to be clandestine. From Wordnik.com. [James Scarborough: "Leiris/Picasso," The Bootleg Theater] Reference
Captain Spencer was on horseback, and happening to look to the left saw a man skulking to the woods with a rifle in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
One of our lieutenants refused to believe his statement and did the worthy fellow cruel injustice in accusing him of skulking. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference
The man pursued her, and she called for help to a neighbor in sight, at which the skulking sneak took himself off to the woods. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Feeling insecure for the first time in my life, I had begun skulking towards the river with my injured leg and then just wading in. From Wordnik.com. [Life of the Mind] Reference
Down this she ran, almost brushing against a figure crouching behind the arras -- a figure skulking there like the evil thing it was. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
Aside from seeing them skulking around at holiday gatherings, few of us have ever had cause for direct dealings with our protectorate. From Wordnik.com. [French Vanilla Death - Prima Parte] Reference
"Where is he?" shouted several, as they drew near the spot, and failed to discover the skulking figure of any enemy, trying to get away. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School] Reference
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