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Definition of Skulked
1. skulk [v] - See also: skulk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skulked
Literary usage of Skulked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... in the meals of the cave-hyena that, under the shadows of night, skulked
through the underbrush and noisily devoured the remnants of the hunters' feast. ..."
2. Life and Public Services of Charles Sumner by Charles Edwards Lester (1874)
"... he skulked away,—abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit,-^\.o join and provoke the
conspirators, who at a distance awaited their congenial chief. ..."
3. Life and Public Services of Charles Sumner by Charles Edwards Lester (1874)
"with conspiracy,—immo etiam in Senatum I'enit,—and then, like Catiline, he skulked
away ... skulked ..."
4. The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt (1825)
"This cause skulked behind the throne, and was not let out in any of Mr.
Canning's speeches. The cloven foot was concealed by so much flaunting oratory, ..."
5. The Tyro's Greek and English Lexicon: Or a Compendium in English of the ...by John Jones, Christian Tobias Damm, Friedrich Wilhelm Struz, Johann Friedrich Schleusner, Johann Schweighäuser by John Jones, Christian Tobias Damm, Friedrich Wilhelm Struz, Johann Friedrich Schleusner, Johann Schweighäuser (1825)
"... aor, they skulked, II. <p. 26. ~та%, ¡ыс, о, ч, timorous, ... skulked ..."
6. Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore (1886)
"skulked!" hissed Mr Breckinridge. "I ask the gentleman to withdraw that word!"
" I withdraw nothing!" replied Mr. Cutting. " I have uttered what I have said ..."
7. One of the People: His Own Story by Burton B. Porter (1907)
"As soon as we were out of sight of the guard and Schofield we skulked through
the bushes and made good our escape. After running for some distance we came ..."
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