In their flight they scurried blindly over the feet of the visitors.

Some small animal, she told herself,a squirrel or a wood-rat, perhaps,frightened at her approach, and scurrying hastily to cover, had dislodged the pebbles with the slight noise that she had heard.

There was an odd-sounding exclamation from the cook, and then the latter jumped up and scurried inside, slamming the screen door behind him with a great racket.

A stair creaked, and a squeaky mouse scurried noisily through the wall.

The wrack of clouds scurrying overhead, now obscured, now let the moonlight through, and the great cone rising sheer from a tempestuous sea glowed angrily.

Underneath the table dogs tumbled, or raced about the porch, barking and leaping on laps, cats scurried past, and a cloud of tobacco smoke filled the close air.

She walked slowly along, treading the young tendrils of the moss, watching with wistful eyes the fleecy clouds, as they appeared through the branches of the elms, scurrying swiftly out towards the sea ... out towards freedom.

"Scurry upstairs and remove the stains of travel while I consult the cook.