Someone waiting in concealment

Usage examples of skulker.

Handbright singing, making no attempt to guard her, Mavin doing so in the hope the skulkers had not been directed to start overt trouble so soon, and Mercald with the conviction that she was safe, would always be safe in a Birders House.

He glimpsed those skulkers who had been watching for Durand, saw them slide into an alleyway as the cab went by.

Queen Ine only muttered a word now and again, or lifted her club threateningly over some skulker, yet none appeared to wait upon its descent, for when she drew near they bent down instantly, with the obsequity of slaves to pick up the bag or cask they had been inclined to pass before, and energetically rushed to the spring or boat waiting to receive it.

In the meantime some of the skulkers whose flight I have referred to began to return, chapfallen, but rejoicing in the disappearance of the danger.

An unexpected aid presently appeared in the shape of Throttler, whom I now recognised as a son of our old Skulker: it had spent its whelphood at the Grange, and was given by my father to Mr.

There were large and small, skulkers and runners, pygmies and giants, slim omnivores and pillar-toothed herbivores.

But all the same, never within the memory of man have the riffraff, bandits and skulkers combined into a force of such numbers.

Brats whose highest ambition was to murder a defenseless prisoner, could be nothing else than cowards end skulkers in the field.

We never thought the crew of skulkers would reach land, but by God they drifted in again the very hour we found port.

Without Avshar, he would still be a chieflet of renegades, a skulker, a raidera flea, biting and hopping away before a hand came down to crush him.

Her Established Church and her beneficed clergy will take up one evening, some Skulkers in Mansoul another, the devil's last prank another, and then, to wind up with, Emmanuel's last speech and charge to Mansoul from his chariot-step till He comes again to accomplish her rapture.

In his wrath--for blood still oozed from his forehead-- George would have exterminated the skulkers, and, checked in his bloodthirstiness, he showered upon them contemptible titles while he cooked two of those we had captured.

On two occasions Stillhawk detected skulkers actually lying in ambush, and these he dealt with in summary fashion, leaving no survivors to learn new lessons in the need for stealth.

Some skulker from the port who had signed on for fear of the law—.

Some skulker from the port who had signed on for fear of the lawor because he had chanced to cross a powerful Veep of the underworld.