What is "skulk"

Usage examples of "skulk".

What was I doing skulking around the streets of Paris at eight in the morning when I should be home getting chewed out by my uncle for allowing the aquamanile to be stolen from me?

She had been required to stand up to Philip for the decade and a half when they had skulked from neighborhood to neighborhood until returning to within two blocks of the house on Auer Avenue where Timothy and Philip were born to Mom and Pop Underhill.

They encountered a group of Topbridgers skulking just inside an alleyway, keeping watch upon the Birders House.

This time he knew what to look for, and he saw the muzzy silhouette of the Blucher skulking under her camouflage.

The harts and hinds in their herds, the boars in their singulars, the skulks of foxes, the richesses of martens, the bevies of roes, the cetes of badgers and the routs of wolves: all came to him more or less as something which you either skin or flayed and then took home to the cook.

Yes, we had Catilina skulking in the background ready to demolish our fair city, but he and I coped with that, he and I saved our country!

Wild as the birds in the sun-drenched trees, their children skulked shyly behind the sulky wheels or scuttled for the protection of the woodheap while their parents yarned over cups of tea, swapped tall stories and books, promised to pass on vague messages to Hoopiron Collins or Brumby Waters, and told the fan tastic tale of the Pommy jackaroo on Gnarlunga.

Marty Lunk and his henchmen were soon to learn the power of that black scourge that wiped out skulking fiends of crime!

I neither swaggered nor skulked, but went from cell to dining hall to my prison job with the unhurried deliberation of an ordinary man engaged upon his daily business, and I resisted, thanks to my hostility toward every sort of authority, therapy sessions designed to turn me inward, to coerce an analysis of the family difficulties and street pressures that had nourished my criminality, with the idea of liberating me from my past.

While Nux raced around barking, Helena and I had skulked off towards the massive statue of Neptune, pretending that the sea of chests and wicker baskets had no connection with us.

Claire had no idea if the real-world store carried the same selection, but on the Otherside this was clearly the place for one stop skulking.

Why spend your time skulking around parties picking up people like me to screw?

Little furtive man, little skulking, skittering man--Duncan said to that one who so long ago had lurked, jackal-like, about the company of Jesus, who had never been one of that company nor had tried to be one of them, who had only watched and listened and then had sat huddled, in some hidden corner, to write what he had seen and heard--you did better than you knew.

Why, he asked that little skulking man, why did you never let me see your face?

But she wondered uneasily if there was a man skulking about the place.