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  • 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.

    The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines 2009

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