Sentence examples for scuttle of from inspiring English sources

Joffe was surprised at his wife's delay ("She's a stickler for punctuality"), but she arrived at her habitual gait — the anxious scuttle of a sparrow with a broken wing — and took her place.

Joffe was surprised at his wife's delay ("She's a stickler for punctuality"), but she arrived at her habitual gait the anxious scuttle of a sparrow with a broken wing and took her place.

Starting out, I was overwhelmed, as always, by the noise, which devours roughly one-third of my ability to enjoy the woods: gone is the rushing of the wind in the branches, the clacking of twig against twig, the scuttle of the occasional squirrel, the squeak and crunch of footsteps in the snow.

As Alan Hollinghurst, who gave her a telling cameo in The Line of Beauty (2005), paying particular attention to what he calls the "gracious scuttle" of her walk, has said, it is "difficult to write about her without writing what would simply be a political novel".

take your art and fine wine cappello and scuttle of back to Italy where you rightfully belong.

-WALL STREET JOURNAL The Buddy System 'TIS EASY to be a friend to the prosperous, for it pays; 'tis not hard to be a friend to the poor, for ye get puffed up by gratitude and have your picture printed standing in front of a tenement with a scuttle of coal and an orphan in each hand.

Following the scuttling of the German fleet in June 1919, all four ships were allotted to the victorious Allied powers as replacements for the scuttled ships.

I realise he has not grasped any of it, make my excuses, and scuttle out of the office.

Cockroaches scuttle out of the boat, and her fears make sleep almost impossible.

She had made a point of scuttling out of the Commons seconds before Goldsmith got up to speak; public embarrassments are always best avoided.

And he's right that the consequences of scuttling billions of dollars of tax subsidies are a major talking point of defenders of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).