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Small ripples on the lake brought warm sensations as they skittered across them
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The bottle spun off the tray and skittered across the floor of my cell, coming to rest against the back wall by the slops bucket
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Even as the thought skittered through my feeble mind, even though I instinctively understood that having fresh clothes meant investment in my life as a hostage by my captors, still I relished the simple aromas of washed cotton
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Without warning, something skittered in the undergrowth nearby, making him jump horribly, swinging the torch about in a desperate attempt to see what it was
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They heard the crackle of a broken stick, and then the skitter of a rock tumbling down the slope
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His hooves were never still; they skittered with excitement
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Before long they could sense Mercer’s bitter glance and they skittered into the shadows
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As she did so, she caught a skittering form out of the corner of her eye
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Other than Joseph and me, the only movement seemed to be insects as they skittered across the tawny earth to vanish into small patches of dried grass
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” He took a deep breath and looked around at our home, the vegetables and flowers I"d planted, the birds skittering in and out of the branches of the tree that was here long before either of us was born
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Light feathery clouds skittered across the sky obscuring the sun, then uncovering it rapidly
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See the black material skitter across the street
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But when its snout faced directly towards us, there was heard a skittering noise
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Maldynado skittered aside, but not before Sicarius tapped him on the ribs with his saber
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She skittered back and bumped into the wall
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A large boulder skittered past, followed by stray bits of the main curtain wall doors
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Reese dodged further to the right, letting the sword skitter down his own sword’s length, whipping the tip around to spin toward Jack’s ear
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Chandio fell forward onto his face, his flick-knife skittering across the floor
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The gun skittered across the hardwood floor, fetching up against the wall next to the open lounge door
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Ka-boom! Ka-boom! He blasted away with his pump-action shotgun, but it skittered away into the bushes
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I saw the shadow there, but over it was a hunger that sent my pulse skittering out of control
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The backdrop of blue sky and white clouds skittered by, around and around some more; and we were climbing again
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His gun skittered across the deck
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His ears picked up the soft brush of the wind on the barren, tree-studded hillside, and a small, brightly-coloured piece of empty packaging skittered past him in erratic circles
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Portsmouth NSY in Kittery, ME, with which EB still splits overhauls and
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Skittering away from her, he stared at the cane and raven before hugging his arms to himself, as if trying to contain his fear
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His glance slides to the Lost One and then just as quickly skitters away
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The scribe’s gaze skittered sideways from this vision of horror and found the same story in the other soldiers also
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His heart skitters in his chest and his throat turns dry
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The scribe’s memory skittered over the evil he had done to the man; if the blacksmith still lived, then Simon knew the artisan would not be kind in his judgement
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Simon’s heart skittered over the Lone Man
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He flicked his driver's license onto the table and it skittered off the edge
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Bryony skittered to a halt as Boglehob swung round, the edge of the scythe blade coming to a rest against the tip of her snout
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Their son, young Bifford , scrambled like a rat into an alley and skittered behind the false safety of a trash can
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Spirits of the dead skittered across the hil s,
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A young boy around ten years old followed her out then sat on the porch with his head glumly lowered as he watched the ants skitter about at his feet
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The Arachnoids bowed in farewell and skittered over the red hills to their Hive
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It skittered backwards and bolted away from the Wall
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“Aye, sir Blackfin,” both said and skittered out of the room
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The rats in the walls squeaked loud enough to my ears that I thought it deafening and when a brash pair appeared out of a crack in the wall to skitter past my feet, I lunged so swiftly that I caught both
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I listened and didn’t hear the tiny skittering of their bodies in the walls or under the floor
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A few skittered between my condorla’s feet and she snagged them with her beak swallowing them in two bites
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They skittered along the passageways with security on their heels into the waiting arms of the Marines who efficiently tossed them into the ship
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Fishmael's jolly boat, tiny in comparison to the house-sized fish, skittered across the waves as she tried to propel herself away, the rope from the harpoon pinging as it took the strain
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remaining pebble Jo threw ahead of her and heard it skitter
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The long digit that entered him brushed a place within him that sent starlight skittering across his vision, pleasure searing through him, making his body arch as feeling that was both foreign and remembered seized him
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A nyala skittered
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The buck skittered and pronked off as he approached
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immediately, the animals were roused from their sleep, and were animated into a raucous bouncing chorus of yelps and yips and yaps and the skittering of claws upon the boards of their kennel
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Both of its arms broke off and skittered along the floor
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The horse skittered away from the truck, but Ferdy Chicken was solid on his mount
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He slapped the surface with the flat of his sword a couple of times causing the bugs to skitter away from the turmoil
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skitters to a stop within inches of my face
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” He winked, pulled out his imaginary finger gun, accompanied with that swell-guy teeth clicking thing, and then he skittered down the corridor
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Vinny donned his favorite jacket and skittered out the door
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When he was finished he skittered out to the
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She felt his breath on her skin and tingles of desire skittered upwards between her thighs causing her to take a sharp breath in
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who skittered around the lift
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There were white sailed yachts skittering across the ruffled waters on the brisk breeze nearer the shore, while, on the other side of the launch, further out, a small float plane left a creamy wake as it took off from the watery runway, marked out with orange buoys
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The wind blew directly into their faces now, gusting unchecked up the long road and sending a stream of dead leaves skittering around their feet
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Schmuff skittered over to a corner and held his arms in front of his face in a protective manner
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“Yeah, so, basically this thing's digestive system is just an intricate series of time travelling worm holes and the like that’ll send whole solar systems shootin’ diagonally, sideways, arching, skittering, riveting and spiraling through time and space
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The pitcher crashed to the floor and shattered, spilling tea everywhere and sending shards of glass skittering across the floor
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A loose cobblestone skittered to the line of mages
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No Arkenian wings and no skittering gritich
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She skittered backward toward the doorway
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There were constant sounds of skittering ahead and behind and all around, and when he could see just a little from the faint light of a side grating he could make out the forms scrambling through their domain-by-possession
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And, somewhere out in the street at the front of the house, a metal bucket went skittering along the paved surface
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Diego’s horse skittered between sparse foliage and blazed their trail along a windswept ridgeline
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Without breaking their embrace, they skittered backward
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“So, go ahead,” she offered as nonchalantly as she could manage, her gaze skittering away at last
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Her eyes were wide and uncertain and despite her obvious effort to look calm and collected, the anxious fluttering of her hands and the way her gaze kept skittering away from him told him differently
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“ Clutch the skittering ghosts that invade your nightmares on a
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Nicole sighed and watched as a pebble she kicked skittered ahead of her down the wide
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Shoals of small fry swarmed around the hulk and as Wan Lung approached he could see that some skittered urgently through the water inside the vehicle as well, having swum in through the windows that were open, or at least those he could see that were not closed
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She’d been watching me, but her eyes skittered away
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The green man was skittering toward us on the ground, unharmed
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There is not a rough within the diamonds within the sky, as between the trees they skitter back and forth removing any and all debris that can be seen
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Trees flying by, woodpeckers hammering in the distance, landlocked birds scattering when the girls ran forth and a few choice deer skittering along the bushes—quite realistically, it could be seen as magical: as a thing and place and time and moment in which nature became one with the real world and that little girls, who could not possibly be animals, could grow fangs and teeth and horns
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Isabel lunged for her, throwing her to the ground and causing the staff to skitter away
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Arrows whistled over her head constantly while black and red magical bolts crashed into the stone around her, sending pieces of rock skittering across the roof
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The puck drops and takes a funny bounce, skittering towards the Dunn
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The two-headed lemur creature gave him another two winks and skittered off into the forest
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Wildlife skittered about, so too Fliryns in the
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Making his way over, the Fife skittered between carcasses, stopping just short of the
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At times it would skitter ahead, scan something of interest, then wait for Erin to catch up
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I heard the skitter of feet towards me from behind and I reacted by kicking out with both of my feet
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When they arrived at a visitor center on the border, two yellow and orange maple leaves skittered over and invited Elena to be in a photograph with them
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I skittered into the shadow of a nearby barrack and lightly probed the minds of the well-armed guards
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He paced alone in his room, and his thoughts skittered between hatred for Agent Kestrel and ways to convince him to release me from the camp
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Splinters of wood skittered like insects over the stairs
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Something--a rodent, it sounded like--skittered across the floor
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sending the kitty, the small ball skittering into the gutter, thus killing the end so as to cause
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One flailing arm caught Twoflower's picture box as it skittered past on its tripod
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Yellow butterflies skittered among the bushes
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Sound skitters and reverberates, and unless one is a highly skilled hunter, it’s difficult to secure the target in one’s crosshairs by noise alone
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The fourth stone explodes from the blur of motion, skitters across the floor, sliding toward that fourth corner, sliding …
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As it moves into the room, a few of the roaches skitter off
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The rubber part of the blades skittered across the glass
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My chest heaving, my emotions skittering about, I move to the window closest to the front door and look inside