scuttlings

He began to hear faint scuttlings behind him-they stopped each time he turned around-and now there were faint ghostly shapes flitting about at the edges of his vision: things with eyes that gleamed like faint red embers.

Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2001

He began to hear faint scuttlings behind him'they stopped each time he turned around-and now there were faint ghostly shapes flitting about at the edges of his vision: things with eyes that gleamed like faint red embers.

Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2000

The deserts of northern and southern Arizona were barren also, but not as lifeless as this lonely, shifting plain, where the only signs of motion were the scuttlings of a scorpion or the whirlings of a sand devil on the dunes.

Zane Grey, Romancing the West May, Stephen J. 1997

A moment of stunned silence, a muttering of disappointment, and within a few more seconds, the trees were only trees, and there were no more scuttlings in the underbrush or eyes in the branches overhead.

Chrome Circle Lackey, Mercedes 1994

A moment of stunned silence, a muttering of disappointment, and within a few more seconds, the trees were only trees, and there were no more scuttlings in the underbrush or eyes in the branches overhead.

The Chrome Borne Lackey, Mercedes 1993

A moment of stunned silence, a muttering of disappointment, and within a few more seconds, the trees were only trees, and there were no more scuttlings in the underbrush or eyes in the branches overhead.

Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993

From time to time the silence was broken by dripping water or the scuttlings of Keman's lizard pets, but that was all.

The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991

But the superiority of numbers on Richard's side was too great, and after a time the Saracens were subdued, before the ship had admitted water enough through the scuttlings to carry her down.

Richard I Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

Colombia has yet to make a single arrest in such scuttlings because the evidence sinks with the so-called semi-submersible.

unknown title 2009

Colombia has yet to make a single arrest in such scuttlings because the evidence sinks with the so-called semi-submersible.

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