Our horses were fresh, and we had a scurry or two, of course; but there wasn't one that could hold a candle to Jim's brown horse.
They were in the midst of the game, when there was a great shouting and hurry-scurry in the street; then the clatter of galloping horses.
Then the kindly fast-mail thundered over the railroad tracks and enabled the seeker after forbidden pleasures to scurry to the first floor under cover of the disturbance.
There came a scurry of footsteps on the walk close by him, another caution from Pete and his sled rope tightened again.
A scurry of gray calico came from the coat closet which served as the green room for the amateur actors.
Although it was only a slight scurry and melted almost as soon as it touched the ground, it covered, for a little while, much of the soot and grime, making a fairy tracery about the roofs of the old houses.
But it was often very pleasant to scurry down into the garden or to the yard for a word with Jonathan or Seth.
I must try not to scurry about the world as I have done," he thought, as he glanced at Betty again and again.
The effect is like magic: loungers sit bolt upright, sleepers wake, those in the water scurry out, and all eyes in camp are turned in the direction of this unlooked-for alarm.
One man with whom I discussed the matter told of having encountered, in the course of a brief scurry across Europe, five members in good standing of the International Association of Former Guides to Mark Twain.
Then the horses were saddled, and they rode home by the longest possible way, singing every imaginable chorus, from Good Old Jeff to the latest medley of pantomime ditties, and ending with a wild scurry across the paddock home.
A dog ran across the ground, and was greeted with a yell that made it scurry away in terror, its tail concealed between its legs.
A thump and a scurry of little feet caught his attention, and he turned to see a Gray Squirrel running for the open window.
Happy Jack couldn't stop to quarrel any more, because you see he was afraid that Chatterer would find the biggest and fattest nuts, so he began to scurry around and hunt too.
He was off and away in a scurry of speed that seemed to flatten him close to the deck, and that, as he turned the corner of the deck-house to the stairs, made his hind feet slip and slide across the smooth planks.
A scurry of feet in the sand, and low sniffings, stiffened him to alertness.
Scurry being the commissioner on the part of Texas.
Scurry being an acquaintance inquired for me, and I was present at the interview.
Colonel Scurry said that young men on foot could make the trip to El Paso for relief better than any of our worn-out animals, and my brother and I volunteered for the tramp.
There was a sudden scurry of feet, and a wire-haired fox-terrier was jumping all over him in ecstasy.
Now--and with anotherscurry of feet, he was once again jumping round the only one who really mattered.
You see," explained Bob, "dad walks so very fast that we have to scurry to keep him in sight.
She bought a Sunday paper, letting the prankish gale around Times Square scurry the bulk of it through the streets while she stood in the shelter of the news stand, unfolding the Furnished Room section.
He lay so still, the chipmunks came curiously up to A Branch Road 35 his very feet, only to scurry away when he stirred like a sleeper in pain.
He took no part in the scurry to get seats at the first table.
Nevertheless I always fought shy of it, and would scurry by as if a witch was after me.
We shall defend the outworks first to check them a bit and put off some time, then scurry into the house and be ready for them when they try to clear the fence.
Something the owls have torn, And the rats scurry with over the floors.
Over the hilltop Swish with a scurry of wings Millions of pale brown birds, Songless, pulsing southward.
The dancing and the scurry of pattering feet had both ceased.
The table slid into the chairs and the cold beef leered at the jelly; the pictures jumped and the clock ran in a mad scurry backwards and forwards.
As they stood in the doorway a sudden scurry of wind and rain drove them all forward so that there was some crush and confusion in the little passage beyond the door.
Perhaps I could just find Baxter, sneak a bolt into his face, and scurry off into the labyrinth on Clatclit's heels.
We were discussing the futility of a lights-out scurry for cover, since that weapon of yours would slice right through these tunnels," I said, deciding the truth was the best way to avoid suspicious repercussions.
My father and mother were Tom and Francis Scurry and belonged as slaves to the Drury Scurry family.
There was scurry in the navy yards, especially within that upon the Potomac.
The stillness was intoxicating after the scurry of the school-room.
