What is "runtish"

Usage examples of "runtish".

They had captured only one of the raidersa runtish gray burro who refused to utter a word until his death the next day.

The Dwarf Argues With the Wizard, Announcing That He Has Discovered in His Runtish Soul the Burning Desire to Become a Highwayman.

He was a shrivelled, runtish creature with fierce little eyes glinting from a pallid, skulllike face.

Then two others in boots and informal fatiguesa giant Negro with a submachine-gun, and a runtish halfcaste with an automatic rifle and fixed bayonet.

Speaker put out for them was pitiful, crusts and oddments of meat scraps, and runtish vegetables along with some puny fish.

The hunter-gatherers were simply outnumbered: Ten malnourished, runtish farmers could always overcome one healthy hunter.

Wind came in the windows, and the pages of dead Balis fluttered on the table and a few of them curled back and half stood so that they caught the faint window light through their backsides and glowed like runtish ghosts come haunting.

She then punched the startled Orvaega in the snout, breaking bone and knocking the orc unconscious, and shoved her into Sewer Rat, which served to knock the runtish meazel backward, spoiling its frenzied attack.

Negro with a submachine-gun, and a runtish halfcaste with an automatic rifle and fixed bayonet.

He was a shrivelled, runtish creature with fierce little eyes glinting from a pallid, skulllike face.

The victim of dwarfdom, the wretched Shelyid's runtish body was ill served and thus doubly cursed by bad nerves, the slightest agitation of which would produce the most indecorous results: pox, palsy, jitters, quivers, tremors, convulsions, paroxysms, fevers, the staggers, the jerks, shortness of breath, frequent and uncontrolled excretion, irregularities of the pulse, lock-jaw, ague, fidgets, timorousness, and a general feeling of social inferiority.