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Updated: June 10, 2025
Bell hops scurried with folding tables. Bridge games formed. The theater group got off, so to speak. Showy women and show-off men. Mrs. Gronauer, in a full length mink coat that enveloped her like a squaw, a titillation of diamond aigrettes in her Titianed hair and an aftermath of scent as tangible as the trail of a wounded shark, emerged from the elevator with her son and daughter-in-law.
Several times while they were moving along Owen had seen a movement amidst the brush that gave him a little thrill; but the glimpses he obtained of the disappearing animal convinced him in one instance that it was a red fox that scurried off in alarm; while on the second occasion he rather imagined it was only a ring-tailed raccoon scuttling away and badly frightened by the intense white glow that bad suddenly penetrated his dark quarters.
He welted them with rifle-fire: they scattered and scurried back. The guns got to work, silenced the field-guns on Flat Top Hill, and added scatter and scurry to the assailing riflemen.
The news was babbled in fragments and Jack scurried back to blurt to his uncle: "An Indian raid, the savages are within a dozen miles of Charles Town, laying waste the plantations, slaying the laborers. The militia is called to arms but they lack a leader. Colonel Stuart is sorely missed.
We all scurried 'round an' changed our clothes Austin's the most stunnin'-lookin' thing in that white flannel suit of his, Sylvia wants he should wear it to his own weddin', 'stead of a dress-suit an' I wore my gray Well, it was all over before you could say 'Jack Robinson' an' I never sweat a drop gettin' ready for it, either!
"She's pretty young, but we'll see what she can do. Now clear the way. Lower that drop a little, boys. Hurry up with the second set." The girls scurried away to the wings where they found a narrow space in which Nance was put through the half-forgotten steps. "It's all in the team work," Birdie explained. "You do exactly what I do, and don't let old Spagetti rattle you.
Here invisible creatures scurried away from a fairy ring whose flagging is of round pyrola leaves, lighted by ghostly white candelabras of the waxy blooms, field mice, very likely, or black beetles, or elves dancing in the moonlight about their queen. How am I to know which?
So they mounted him, and in a moment they were in the midst of the desert, and naught round them save the hot glimmer of the sands and the grey of the sky. Surely, the Ass went at such a pace as never Ass went before in this world, resting not by the rivulets, nor under the palms, nor beside the date-boughs; it was as if the Ass scurried without motion of his legs, so swiftly went he.
Halcyon nights those, and then on Sunday morning we always breakfasted at old Martin's on University Place eggs a la Martin and that wonderful coffee and pain de menage. And what a wrench it was when I tore myself away from the delights of the great city and scurried back to my desk in sleepy Philadelphia.
Neither did Percival. It was strange how the common antagonism drew them together. He was about to ask for further details when the old Peppermint Lady scurried past and, seeing them, turned back to impart the burning news that Bird Island was in sight. "Yes," said Percival, shamelessly, "we have seen it." "He doesn't know me if he thinks I'll give in," went on Bobby where she had left off.
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