In her nostrils was the autumn perfume of the woods, and as they strode forward in silence a rabbit scuttled from their path.
Now and then a rabbit scuttled from their path into the undergrowth or the alarm-cry of a bird broke the evening stillness, until at last they came forth into the wide highway, their faces set towards the autumn sunset.
You ought to have scuttled them, captain," said Aunt Jannet.
The boy, with a last impish grin, gave the man's leg a final shake and scuttled indoors.
Is that why you scuttled out of Vancouver and hurried on here, as soon as you saw me back?
Rat nests littered the corners and the brown rodents scuttled out with alarmed squeaks.
I heard a cry from one of the men: "The dog has scuttled the boat.
You, of course, know without the telling, that I reached land safely after I scuttled the boat, else I should not be writing this forty years afterwards.
Now and again a night bird hooted in the scrub, and once or twice 'possums ran across and scuttled up into the trees to right and left of my path.
The silence of the scrub was mysterious in the extreme, 'possums scuttled across my track, a stray dingoe had a long stare at me from some rocks above a creek, while curlews whistled at me from every pool.
Only Melchisedec saw and heard it; and he was so much alarmed and mystified that he scuttled back to his hole and hid there, and really quaked and trembled as he peeped out furtively and with great caution to watch what was going on.
She caught at the coal-box and simply scuttled out of the room like a frightened rabbit.
An owl hooted weirdly in the ivy far above her, while near, at her feet, a rabbit scuttled away through the grass.
Above them the wind stirred the leaves, and through the high bracken a rabbit scuttledat their feet.
In the dim light some were seen hastily snatching up their bows, and preparing to descend to their canoes, little suspecting that they would find them scuttled and already half swamped.
If more than half that were scuttled have sunk, we may dread their arrows more than their oars.
Last night, after I had extinguished the candle in my bedroom, I placed my foot upon something smooth and hard, which scuttled from under me.
The bull pup which they had seen upon the day before bolted from its hiding-place, and scuttled snarling from the room.
Cherry scuttleddown the ladder, and in a few minutes labored, panting, up again.
The other girls all scuttled out too, and they let the sheet go in such a hurry that we had no time to steady ourselves, and one of us went right in, and the rest got wet up to our waistbands.
Then it was you," Dicky said, "who scuttled the perambulator in the wood?
Led by Turnpenny, most of the men, loaded with things, scuttled along the face of the cliff into the thicket that half concealed the mouth of the cave.
De Wet scuttled away from Dewetsdorp on the approach of Rundle; and the commandos ran the gauntlet successfully.
He was the mildest-manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
The brood, instead of making for the open river, where it would have been safe, scuttled into the tall grasses.
Two or three women, more bashful than the rest, scuttled into the depths of wigwams out of sight.
Sometimes when he came home at night he would find her talking to Mary in the kitchen, but at the sight of him she scuttled away so that he saw no more of her than one sees of a rabbit's vanishing tail.
A stone that he dislodged in his walking bounded on as though it were falling over the roof of a house, and Tiger scuttled after it full-pelt.
Susan called him, and rather reluctantly he scuttled back over the bridge and jumped up to her knees licking her hands.
After a long while, in his stealthy, timid way, he made a few steps towards them, and scuttled back to Selina.
Then she turned and scuttled like a hunted thing up the mountain side.
She put down the bag andscuttled up the staircase like a scared rabbit.
The Duke, fleeing like a scared rat before the anger of Cavalcanti, scuttled down the room to a small door in the wall that held the fire-place.
His father scuttled down the steps to the assistance of that precious son, who lay moaning where he had fallen, the angle at which the half of one of his legs stood to the rest of it, plainly announcing the nature of his punishment.
Then he scuttled within doors to fetch the money, whilst Galeotto laughed deep in his throat.
Every child that was able to walk or creep scuttled into the farthest corners and remained quite, quite still with a wide-eyed expression of fear and apprehension on every face.
I had scuttled home from the office as early as decency would permit, in order to have plenty of time for the dressing.
The intruder, equally terrified, took the hint to quit, andscuttled noisily away.
At present she scuttled on ahead, conveniently out of their way.
The heads turned for a moment to look, then scuttled on with the utmost rapidity.
Inside these structures and between and around them there scuttled formless blobs of matter, one of which Roger brought up into his vessel by means of a tractor.
The duenna had scuttled forward on her knees and, amid a series of cries, was pressing the hem of the kimono to her lips.
Now and again a real cab scuttled along the streets, its skinny beast clop-clopping over the wooden paving, or slipping among the cobbled ways, its driver hidden under a mountainous pile of woolen great-coat and rubber cape.
The two little souls scuttled away into the gathering dark, and the neighbour woman sat down by the fire to nurse the baby and croon and await the clothing for which she had sent.
There was a warning call from Johnnie, ahead in the dusk somewhere; and the little fellow scuttled away toward the Victory and a night of work.
And she scuttled back to her looms as the room boss came in.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scuttled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
