"He came in and lit the gas; if he'd been in it, he'd have skedaddled with the rest.

Grundy hung about at the top of the stairs, and as soon as he saw Browse come back and make for Allingford's study, he let us know the coast was clear, so we unlocked the door and skedaddled.

"I do, though: he's skedaddled right enough, and they can't find him anywhere.

EmpiresKingdomsPottentates and Hottentots, took the first train and skedaddled, when the General sot his affeckshuns on their territory.

No one notices him, and hailing it as a happy omen, he pounces upon the coveted quadruped, grasps it tightly in his hands, and skedaddles.

The battle was over, the Johnnies had "skedaddled," leaving their dead and dying on the bloody field.

After the Indians had skedaddled for the woods, and we cut the cords that bound pa, the cannibals went to work and skun the dogs, and began to cook them, and pa looked on, until it made him squirmish, but he was so tickled at being saved from the Indians, that he tried to be a good fellow with the cannibals.

" "Mary skedaddled after dinner," said Ajax, frowning, "but I'm going into town to-morrow to bring him back.

"He opened them, and the prisoner has skedaddled.

"All have skedaddled to other places.

For the skittish skies skewed and skedaddled and skulked and skipped and scrubbed and screwed and screamed and scrawled and scooped and scrabbled and scrambled and scambled and scumbled and scraped and scrunched and scudded and scuttled and scuffled and skimped and scattered in such scandalous scampishness that the scornful scholars scoffed.

"Shall I," he cried, "who made the Hun skedaddle And caused the Wacht an Rhein to lose its job, Taught Johnny Turk the use of boot and saddle And fetched out FERDINANDO for a blob Shall I allow each little grinning urchin To move me from my purpose?

aw she niggeh dat try to skedaddle"; came and stood to gaze with her over and between the grove trees.

You get those ladies out o' this as fast as them mules can skedaddle.

A fellow can't skedaddle when his father's looking at him.

Skedaddle! "Don't make any mistake; we haven't any cavalry yet.

Not but that I was up to it all the time, or else I should have skedaddled; for this place was bound to be as dull as ditchwater."

We got to skedaddle!" As before we fell into a manzanita thicket and had to crawl.

It was in vain that the Apache crouched, spurred, and skedaddled; he got away alive, but it was with a long bloody gash down his naked back; the last seen of him he was going at full speed, holding by his pony's mane.

Texas Smith alone, insatiably bloodthirsty and an independent fighter, skulked hastily across the plaza, ambushed himself in a crevice of the ruin, and took a couple of shots at the savages as they mounted their ponies at the foot of the hill and skedaddled loosely across the plain.

Without looking at him the Right Bower rose, leaned against the open door with his hands behind him and his face towards the landscape, and said, apparently to the distant prospect: "The claim's played out, the partnership's played out, and the sooner we skedaddle out of this the better.

He paused a moment, and then, as a new idea seemed to be painfully borne in his round eyes, continued cautiously: "Was that the reason why you wouldn't touch any of them dresses from the trunks of that opery gal ez skedaddled for Sacramento?