23 examples of skulkers in sentences

But the paradoxical picture of the ragged skulker in Milligan's actually sitting at the same table with Nelly Lebrun and receiving her smiles stayed with him.

"You big skulker," the latter said, with an oath of derision, "go on, and fight!

Some skulkers from the cannon-balls of the pirates might have sought safety in the hold of the galleon, and he would find them.

These men would fire to kill on any skulker near the camp.

"He isn't alone, Jack, for I saw a second skulker in the brush, I'm sure.

" "There have been skulkers around for some time," continued the lieutenant.

A general search was, however, instituted by the officers of the vessel, just before it stopped at a wooding-stationand the skulkers were brought out, amidst the clamorous jeers of their fellows.

A poor play in which every player enters with his whole heart (team work) will often win, while, on the other hand, the best play in which some of the players are skulkers and shirkers will probably fail.

The step for which he raised his forefoot was not completed for down the hollow behind him he saw a grey skulker slinking with its belly close to the ground.

After all, this skulker had more cause to be afraid of me than I of him.

But an instant later a coyoteone of those gray skulkers whose waging cries at twilight every woodfarer knowssprang out of his covert and darted away.

Carries eight o' the biggest and best torpedoes, any one o' which is warranted to knock the stuffing out o' the "Goeben" or any other o' Weeping Willy's super-skulkers.' 'Where are we now?' inquired Ken with interest. 'Couldn't say precisely.

"Ho! O'Riley, lend a hand, you lazy fellow," cried Fred; "work first and play afterwards, you skulker.

Yester evening Did we conjure thee not to let that skulker, That fox, Octavio, pass the gates of Pilsen.

Wise persons do not hunt lions with these contraptions: for it is the nature of a rat-trap, fair cousin, to ensnare not the beast which imperiously desires and takes in daylight, but the tinier and the filthier beast that covets meanly and attacks under the cover of darknessas do you and your seven skulkers!"

But across the open fields wreckage from the battle was streaming in every direction; and so stupid and bewildered with fear were some of the fugitives that McDunn's battery had to cease its fire for a time, while the officers ran forward through the smoke, shouting and gesticulating to warn the mass of skulkers out of the way.

It was already thronged with the debris of the battle, skulkers, wounded men hobbling, pallid malingerers edging their furtive way out of fire.

They were the riff-raff of the battle, the skulkers, the cowards, the slightly wounded, making pin pricks an excuse for escape.

That which interested me more particularly, however, was the scene nearer at handthe stragglers, the wounded, the skulkers, the disorganized bodies of men, the wearied commands which had been fighting since daylight, now doggedly falling back, relieved by new arrivals, yet unwilling to go.

The third skulker took advantage of the cessation of firing to tumble down from his perch and fly for his life.

As long as the wood continued to blaze, the most adroit Indian skulker could not approach the camp without exposing himself, while the guards and the garrison were veiled from his sight by a wall of darkness behind a dazzle of light.

The leader of a patriot-band Even so could view rebels who so could stand; And this when peril pressed him sore, Left aidless in the shivered front of war Skulkers behind, defiant foes before, And fighting with a broken brand.

"Was there not bad demoralisation," I said, "ten thousand or more skulkers huddled under the bluff on the Tennessee?"

23 examples of  skulkers  in sentences