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scurrying

n. The motion of something that scurries. vb. (present participle of scurry English)

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scurrying

adj. moving with great haste; "affection for this hurrying driving...little man"; "lashed the scurrying horses" [syn: hurrying]

Usage examples of "scurrying".

Only the unmarried triplets, Flavilla and Drusilla, remained amiably indifferent in the midst of all these family financial scurryings and preparations to secure world patents in a monopoly which promised the social regeneration of the globe.

He watched the scurryings and cryings on the plain with the incurious contempt he felt for all beings who were not Fallarin.

Harry knew that it must be full of living creatures, but he wished they would all remain still and silent so that he could separate their innocent scurryings and prowlings from noises that might proclaim other, sinister movements.

These were the elite and took no part in the frenzied scurryings of the camp boys as they packed away our gear.

There were rat-snouts and rat-squeals and rat scurryings, outside or inside of my skull.

Its tomb-like silence was broken only by the scurryings of rats and the barks of stray dogs that competed for street scavengings.

He kept one hand on his knife and darted glances from right to left, noting the furtive scurryings in the side streets, the shadowy people who were not quite visible behind the ashes and the rubble.