These men had been malingering all winter in order to skulk out of danger; so he treated them with extreme leniency in only putting them on duty as a 'company of Invalids.'

I can skulk amid the tufts of Purple Wood-Grass on the borders of the "Great Fields."

Why not take more elevated and broader views, walk in the great garden, not skulk in a little "debauched" nook of it? consider the beauty of the forest, and not merely of a few impounded herbs? Let your walks now be a little more adventurous; ascend the hills.

I know what the manly course would have been, but I preferred to skulk.

"In Europe we fight on open ground, where the best man wins; we do not skulk behind the trees and through the underbrush.

MARMADUKE Clifford never Would stoop to skulk about a Cottage door It could not be.

A law, therefore, sir, to restrain them in time of war from such exorbitant demands; to deprive them of those prospects which have often no other effect than to lull them in idleness, while they skulk about in expectation of higher wages; and to hinder them from deceiving themselves, embarrassing the merchants, and neglecting the general interest of their country, is undoubtedly just.

I want you to go on board 'The King Cotton,' take the captain aside, and tell him, from me, to remove them forthwith from Castle Island, keep them under strong guard, and skulk round with them in the best hiding-places he can find, until a ship passes that will take them to New Orleans.

Or seek his old abodes, Or herd among the deer, and skulk in woods? Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails.

My Reader tells me the word is still in use among printers, with the pronunciation mike, and the meaning to skulk or idle.]

The wild animals in the jungle which skirted the road, and which, in general, skulk in silence and secresy in their haunts, rent the air with their howlings.

I must forever be on guard Against the doubts that skulk along; I get ahead by fighting hard, But fighting keeps my spirit strong.

Don't skulk!" He laughed again and walked on; and the heap in the fireplace put out his head tortoise fashion and listened in horror to the retreating footsteps.

We'll let him do the open hunting an' we'll skulk.

The men were terrified at this bold act of their leader; and many with dismay at the thought of resistance, began to skulk behind fences and old buildings, when he opened the door and requested every slave to leave who felt unwilling to fight.

When they are drunk, they neither yell, nor shout, nor stagger, but skulk along like beaten hounds.

'Ocra,' said the overseer, one evening, to the driver, 'if any pretend to be sick, send me wordallow no lazy wench or fellow to skulk in the negro house.'

'Ocra,' said the overseer, one evening, to the driver, 'if any pretend to be sick, send me wordallow no lazy wench or fellow to skulk in the negro house.'

"You can't skulk behind Saccharissy.

We naturally decided not to go up that road in the car, but to skulk through a wood and meet the car in a place of safety.

What have I done so heinous that I must Skulk here in hiding, like a murderer?

The colonels and commanding officers of regiments are to see their supernumerary officers so posted as to keep their men to their duty; and it may not be amiss for the troops to know, that, if any infamous rascal shall attempt to skulk, hide himself, or retreat from the enemy without the orders of his commanding officers, he will instantly be shot down as an example of cowardice.

The deer of the neighboring forest skulk and hide and lie still in dense cover to avoid being seen.

Doubtless, some pagan of the twilight day Has often pointed to a cavern-mouth, Obnoxious to beholders, hard by Rome, And said,nor he a bad man, no, nor fool, Only a man, so, blind like all his mates, 'Here skulk in safety, lurk, defying law, The devotees to execrable creed, Adoringwith what culture ...

But still they were infinitely mischievous, considered as pretences under which Northern men could skulk from their duties, and as sophistries to lull into a sleepy acquiescence the consciences of those political adventurers who are always seeking occasions for being tempted and reasons for being rogues.