There were also a dozen other specimens of unclassified insects, both winged and legged, which went scuttling off at the sight of the light.
An inclusive thought of the possibilities of the region in the dead dark of a moonless night was what had started him after the bent, black figure scuttling into the fast-dropping gloom ahead.
Some of the races were capital, the little Chinese ponies scuttling along at a great pace under their big riders, whose feet seemed almost to touch the ground.
Some figures are seen in the distance, scuttling along a narrow lane.
While in the boat, they heard their captors speak about the scuttling of the ship, well knowing what they meant.
There's no need," I said; "the enemy is scuttling off as fast as he can go.
Strings of grey spiders hurrying south, would be brigades of cyclist telegraphists or sharpshooters, and processions of drab beetles scuttling along, Field Ambulances, or Staff motor-cars.
Why, he'd have as good a chance of scuttling the ship, and he'd have no chance of that.
He was dodging back to the bow of the surf-boat when a uniformed figure carrying a rifle came scuttling and shouting down the landing-ladder.
All the men present caught up Jude and hurried him quickly over the gaping hole, in which he could hear a scuttling of vermin feet and a chorus of squeaks.
It approached, and as it grew the shouts of rage in the Great Hall ceased, and a roar of scuttling feet was heard.
He stood watching the scuttling first rush of the horse, the groom madly scrambling to the back seat, till they had vanished around a corner.
Beyond this they were in a cool forest; above, high against a blue sky, the purple haze of the sal bloom, their advent sending a grey-backed fat little dweller scuttling away on his short legs.
This latter gentleman accosted Joe with a warning gesture, lifting his arm and pointing to the sky, and at the same time giving him a significant look, and then scuttling over to a disreputable motor car that stood beside the station platform.
An automobile went scuttling across Main Street at the intersection, seeking its way westward, leaving a cloud of dust that hung lazily golden ere it settled.
The carpenters had, in the meantime, been engaged in scuttling the orlop deck, so that water might be poured down in great quantities.
I came scuttling down," answered the other, who was evidently never at a loss what to say.
Howls resounded on every side, while the rays streaming down upon this battlefield showed dusky figures scuttling away in all directions.
In spite of the fact that a huge shell had just whizzed overhead, Dick went scuttling along beside the wall on hands and knees in search of some shelter.
A perfect pandemonium had suddenly been let loose, in which voices and biting explosions blended with the rush and scuttling of many feet.
Following the narrow cart track through these woods, her fine eyes busy in every direction with the scuttling rabbits, she emerged in full view of the quaint old L-shaped house.
Well, sir, you see we have got a hint that you were concerned in scuttling a ship; and that is a felony.
Then she taxed him with scuttling the Proserpine, and asked him whether that money had not been the bribe.
As to the scuttling of the ship, here is the deposition of two seamen, taken on their death-bed, and witnessed by Miss Rolleston and myself.
Wagons, carts, motortrucks and all manner of wheeled things were scuttling about Blitherwood as he shot down the long, winding avenue toward the lodge gates, but he paid no attention to them.
Robin's scowl sent him scuttling away a great deal more rigidly than when he came.
Out in the street, her jacket not quite on and her hat clapped askew, Ann 'Lisbeth found herself quite suddenly scuttling down a side-street.
After a while the ten-cent piece rolled from her clenched and knocking fist, scuttling and settling beneath the sink.
His eye, ever on the alert, had marked a small figurescuttling along in the undergrowth of the coppice, and he was in hot pursuit.
A furious squealing broke out among the trees behind them, and then a rabbit tumbled out of a bush, made a short scuttling run, and rolled over in a heap.
They were hoping to surprise a rabbit in a play-hole, but though they saw plenty of rabbits scuttling to shelter, every hole proved the mouth of a burrow, and that was too much for them to attempt.
Actually I had to hold myself in to keep from scuttling away like a whipped puppy.
Whatever may happen, your being in the hold will prevent any man from scuttling the ship.
The men remained a great while in the forecastle, all so quiet that I wondered whether some among them were even now belowscuttling the ship.
He'll take my voice for the fellow as is scuttling the ship.
He will tell them that when he has done scuttling her, he will run up and jump overboard and swim to them.
Beyond the shadow of a doubt, he it was who had planned the scuttling of the ship, and he it was who had left the deck to do it.
If, therefore, they contemplate this, they will leave the ship while they suppose the act of scuttling to be actually proceeding.
The two dogs and five half-naked Mexican children spied him and scattered, the dogs coming at him full tilt, the children scuttling to the cabin.
Several scuttling figures left that particular hiding place like rabbits scared out of a covert, and Bland took heart again.
Before he sat down, Phineas made one allusion to that former scuttling of the ship,--an accusation as to which had been made against him so injuriously by Mr. Bonteen.
Before you can quarrel with Bonteen you must be able to show that a metaphorical scuttling of a ship must necessarily be a disgraceful act.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scuttling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
