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Definition of Scurried
1. scurry [v] - See also: scurry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scurried
Literary usage of Scurried
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1903)
"Across the back of the yard a rabbit scurried, its ears flat, its eyes bulging.
It, too, was going east. A covey of ruffed grouse rose from the edge of the ..."
2. Verse Writing: A Practical Handbook for College Classes and Private Guidance by William Herbert Carruth (1917)
"Beneath the mother's fluttering wings • The frightened birdlings cowering rest,
While all the furry little things For shelter scurried to their nest. ..."
3. The American Negro Soldier with the Red Hand of France by Monroe Mason, Arthur Franklin Furr (1920)
"There was a gong at both ends of the ship, and at the signal the men scurried
down to their respective bunks and awaited the signal to "abandon ship. ..."
4. Baree, Son of Kazan by James Oliver Curwood (1917)
"One day he lay within a dozen feet of an old beaver who was cutting down a tree
six inches through. When the tree fell, and the old beaver scurried away, ..."
5. Annals of the Earth by Charles Lincoln Phifer (1890)
"Up the shore The waters curled, then swiftly scurried back On toward the center,
... And then the clouds that scurried, warred and broke, Letting the angels ..."
6. Literature Pockets, Aesop's Fables Grades 2-3 by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Jo Ellen Moore, Jill Norris, Aesop (2002)
"Have students scan the story to locate a word that means about the same thing as
each of these words: hand (paw) nice (kind) ran (scurried) beg (plea) ..."
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