| Seeing the boy scudding away at such a rapid pace, he very naturally concluded him to be the depredator. |
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| The waxing gibbous moon was still behind the scudding clouds, but it was far from pitch dark. |
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| As often as I can, I visit the Hatteras Island beaches and face east to whitecaps and scudding clouds. |
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| Hydraulic hammers and breakers, attached to big excavators or scudding skid-steers, announce demolition. |
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| The moon must have been up for there was a dim glimmer among the clouds scudding to the east. |
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| And the steel giants keep scudding along their way to find their death in the continuing conflict with each other. |
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| The moon was almost full, with wisps of cloud scudding across its face, so there was enough light for me to see where I was going. |
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| She looked upward, and witnessed several small clouds scudding across the sky, as if bent on a happy errand as she was herself. |
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| The clouds were scudding along the tops of the peaks, and the sky was bruised a deep purple. |
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| Thursday brightened into an overcast, showery day with belts of dark and paler grey cloud scudding across the sky. |
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| Just the sort of food to help us enjoy the scudding clouds, bracing winds and refreshing rain. |
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| Sunlight broke through the clouds, islands of light scudding across the countryside. |
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| With the full moon scudding between the clouds, it felt like the inside of a music box. |
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| Lately he had become an indolent sea-bather idly scudding in the tepid shallows. |
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| Walking round the southern tip of Haweswater, I spied a peregrine scudding overhead, streaking down from Harter Fell. |
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| A stiff breeze blew through the court and from the start of the final there were dark clouds scudding across the sky. |
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| One minute we were in blue-skied Californian summer, the next dour British November, closed-in, grey-skied, dense scraps of mist scudding down quiet, damp streets. |
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| Clouds scudding across a starry sky are reflected in a weed-choked river. |
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| Cold alpine gusts sweep the skyscape, sending the scudding clouds adrift. |
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| Beneath the skylarks and the scudding clouds, no more than a conversation between people and chalk grass, this was a war memorial I could understand. |
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| Now it's the world's largest regatta, with around 40 races a day and up to 1,000 boats scudding across the waves. |
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| How sweet it was to see the clouds race by, and the passing gleams of the moonlight between the scudding clouds crossing and passing, like the gladness and sorrow of a man's life. |
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| After months in the horse latitudes, retail and auto sales are scudding along at a brisk pace. |
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| When patrol planes lifted off from airfields there, observers knew that within a few minutes they would be scudding low over ocean pathways to attack submarines on the surface, or at least spot a white-waked periscope. |
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