And Elijah, as one under the shadow of a raised whip, skulked from the patio and was gone.
The shadow confronted his band and mocked them, and as the red men hurried along in the darkness, vividly recalling the mad charge of the cavalry, the strange shadow skulked along with the column and fired shot after shot into the band.
White men saw the shadow, hunters, trappers and scouts who built their camp fires near that valley, through which the big mountain wolf skulked and prowled all night long, had felt the mysterious presence of the shadow or had seen it.
A white shaggy dog, with his face scratched and torn in twenty different places, skulked into the room.
She had surrendered to him willingly, and yet drew about her a protective armor of reserve wherein sheskulked immune to the arms which were lawfully victorious.
At the very end of the cabin, where the wood-vine grew thick and dense, Peter had burrowed himself a hiding-place, and into this he skulked with the quickness of a rat getting away from its enemies.
The other, the informer, a genuine mountaineer, still skulkedmotionless in the darkness.
The four men still within the inclosure, now busied in shovelling the earth back again into the excavation they had so swiftly made, covertly watched him as he skulked into the shadow of the wayside.
The Kaffir did not condescend to make answer, but skulked into the hut.
Several jackals reluctantly skulked off as they drew near and on riding up to the spot from which those creatures had retired, they saw the clean-picked bones of an antelope.
My dearest Youwee," says I, "why did you not tell me this adventure sooner?
So he skulked around behind the house and the stable, and up the gravel path to the henhouse.
Half a dozen coyotes and a wildcat skulked out of the timber that fringed the meadow and buried themselves in the little clump of willows that grew about the spring.
I should have hidden behind some tree, or skulked away out of sight.
He skulked about that night, and on the following day he sent for Bellacic, for Markovic, and for some kinsmen and acquaintances, and asked them to help him out of his difficulties.
At length, even at that snail's rate of progress, I gained the protection of the tepees upon the other side of the camp, and skulked in among them.
We then crouched in the shade of the sails, or went down to our hammocks in the cabin, choosing to be half stifled rather than expose ourselves on deck to the sickening heat of the sun.
The men moored the vessel to a tree alongside a hard clayey bank, and after supper, all were soon fast asleep, scattered about the raised deck.
He skulked through the bushes as cautiously as a fox.
Then for three long days they skulked through the forest endeavoring to reach the headwaters of the river.
However, as the time passed and the wolves failed to appear, the lads believed that they had skulked off.
A displaced rock clattered down the gully, startling a mountain-lion which leaped from a freshly killed calf andskulked away.
Back in the lonely canyon a coyote skulked past the empty house at the Hot Springs.
The four men still within the in-closure, now busied in shovelling the earth back again into the excavation they had so swiftly made, covertly watched him as he skulked into the shadow of the wayside.
Tad, as he skulked along, was wondering if Ned had heard the shot and hoping that his companion would make no false moves.
Once outside the bandits quickly skulked off to one side or the other.
The quietest recesses of the hill harboured this ogre; I skulked in my favourite wilderness like a Cameronian of the Killing Time, and John Todd was my Claverhouse, and his dogs my questing dragoons.
Barnes and his ruffians skulked back to dressing quarters, there to abuse the referee, the "Gridley kickers" and everyone and everything else but themselves.
The Fordham players crowded about, muttering in an ugly way---all except one man, who skulked at the rear.
If you had skulked one vote, you would have had to skulk many more before the end of the session.
Would you have gone out of the House--skulked the vote?
For continually the knowledge skulkedin the dark backwards of her consciousness that only lack of opportunity restrained her from active disloyalty to his prejudices.
It had long since skulked off, but no one thought of pursuit, as all were too anxious about Jan.
He had just fled from among the carcasses, on seeing them approach; and had skulked around the walls, and then run to their rear.
As they walked back along the mountain-foot, a fox stole out from the rocks and skulked towards the marshy lake, no doubt in search of prey.
Beyond a doubt the intellectual process described passed through the mind of this lion; and he had skulked round to shun an encounter with the three travellers.
Just above his secret resting-place, where the great woods deepen, and the gloomy shadows lie darkly all through the long afternoons, a small party of hideously painted savages skulkedsilently in ambush.
Now they skulked timorously, but then they might walk upright and glut their fiendish lust for blood.
These reds skulked in ravines, or lined the banks of the river, their long-range rifles rendering the lighter carbines of the cavalrymen almost valueless.
Even now you suspect that I am deceitful--a masked sham like those others we discussed to-night; but I have never played a part before, never skulked in the dark.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skulked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
