skeddadle

Updated: May 7, 2025

The most level-headed scientist would temporarily have lost his mental equipoise on witnessing such a quick change as that within a span or two of his own nose I was not only witless, I was breathless too, I could only gape. And, while I gaped, the woman, stooping down, picking up her draperies, began to huddle them on her anyhow, and, also, to skeddadle towards the door which led into the yard.

Richard Marsh - The Beetle