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Updated: September 3, 2025
The reckless element the gun-men who in a former day were wont to swagger forth with reckless disregard for the polite conventions skulked in the background, sneering at this thing which had come to rob them of their power and which, they felt, presaged their ultimate downfall.
They had actually skulked in their hammocks, leaving the working of the pumps and other necessary labours to the officers of the ship, and the soldiers, who had made uncommon exertions.
"He made no reply he skulked away without a word." Darrell then proceeded to relate the interview which Jasper had forced on him at Fawley during Lionel's visit there on Jasper's part an attempt to tell the same tale as William had told on Darrell's part, the same scornful refusal to hear it out.
The boy dodged from bush to bush and, reaching a hedge, bored his way through it and skulked along the other side of it, dragging the rifle behind him, the German helmet tightly clutched under one arm. "'Where am I? Ah! The village is to the left. I must turn back and start again, he decided. This was risky, but there seemed no other course for him to follow.
"If you expect an easy berth, as first-mate, you are mistaken, my joker," said Jackson to Newton, as he steered the vessel; "you've skulked long enough, and shall now work double tides, or take the consequence. If you don't, I'll be damned!" "I shall do my duty, Mr Jackson," replied Newton, "and fear no consequences." "Indeed! you saw how I settled a skulk just now; beware of his fate!"
For a week or more we loitered about the now nearly-abandoned prison; skulked and crawled around the dismal mud-tents like the ghostly denizens of some Potter's Field, who, for some reason had been allowed to return to earth, and for awhile creep painfully around the little hillocks beneath which they had been entombed.
'Come in, d'ye hear? growled this engaging ruffian. A white shaggy dog, with his face scratched and torn in twenty different places, skulked into the room. 'Why didn't you come in afore? said the man. 'You're getting too proud to own me afore company, are you? Lie down! This command was accompanied with a kick, which sent the animal to the other end of the room.
I was never a coward, and cared for a thrashing as little as any boy, but one cannot make a stand against the acerbities of three hundred tyrants without a moral courage of which at that time I possessed none. I know that I skulked, and was odious to the eyes of those I admired and envied.
Once there he skulked from chimney to chimney until he had crossed the flat roofs of three buildings. The third had a trapdoor close to a chimney. This he lifted, then dropped behind him. He was now in his own building. Panting a little from the exertion, he tiptoed down the hall, turned the key and entered his room. Having made sure that the iron blinds were closed, he snapped on a light.
You have skulked and dogged my steps, you red hound, ever since I punished you for trying to steal my horse. I made one great mistake. Instead of beating you, I should have shot you, and rid the earth of you once for all." "Indian no forget white man's blows. White man die, and Indian be revenged." "Yes, I s'pose that's what it's coming to," said the hunter, in a tone of resignation.
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