| I was about to protest, but Alex quickly skittered off to the bathroom, leaving me stupidly holding the silver phone in my hand. |
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| He didn't seem to mind much and as he leaned in close to the girl I skittered out deciding he was further preoccupied. |
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| His body sagging between two policemen, Johnny's head lolled forward and the tips of his boots skittered behind. |
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| When we stepped away from the tunnel's hatch, a tide of beetles skittered over the stones, away from our feet. |
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| The thing by the stairs skittered in a tight circle, turning its buried face towards him. |
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| Thoughts of saying hello skittered briefly across my mind, but disappeared almost immediately. |
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| The llamas skittered impatiently and moved forward and I saw it was for real. |
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| The Lunatic Fringe skittered around the ring, looking unstoppable until The League of Nations ambushed him. |
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| With light rain dampening parts of the course, and a buffeting wind gusting off the river Moselle, back wheels skittered on corners and bounced on the cobbled avenues. |
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| Plus I woke up at 5am again, and since sleep skittered evasively through the window and out into the gloomy morning, I surrendered to the inevitable, and sprang out of bed. |
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| Mr. Lauder has at least a brace of finches cheeping in his office at all times, and used to have a Boston terrier that skittered around his desk. |
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| Indiana's counties skittered illogically between two time zones, so he reset the state's clocks. |
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| The conversation skittered and zigzagged as it does in any group of people addlebrained by the presence of four children. |
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| During the day, sparrows skittered around the garage, but sparrows didn't skitter at night, so he wasn't sure which animals were making sounds. |
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| The monster shrank and skittered on spindly legs through years of frozen memories, dissolving finally into a heap of mirrored shards. |
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| Keith had me do this as I skittered across the gym like a giraffe at watering hole. |
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| A few thoughts about Arthur skittered through her mind for a moment. |
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| A rock skittered lightly to his left as he stepped into the sanctuary. |
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| His book flew out of his hand, the checkerboard slammed into the settee, and all of the little black and red checkers escaped onto the floor and skittered in all directions. |
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| We had three feet of snow, icicles everywhere on trees and buildings, and we skittered from fire to fire, knowing we were in the midst of something historic in literature. |
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| Today, immediately after my greeting, three of them skittered to their feet and ran full pelt on the water alongside me until they took off and soared above. |
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| Later at dinner in the restaurant an orange cockroach emerged from under an urn and skittered across the white tablecloth. |
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| The tracks were randomly oriented, as if the creatures that left them had skittered back and forth in search of food. |
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| The red road, which the Army had just blasted into the mountainside, was littered with giant pinecones, and monkeys skittered in front of our truck. |
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| Darting around the wedding hall with my cousins, I skittered between the adults who had gotten up to dance at the end of the main course. |
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| Women with pushchairs dashed for shelter and the traffic skittered to a snail's pace. |
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| Facing the pitcher, he hopped sideways down the line, fluttering his fingers like a hummingbird's wings, then skittered back toward third, then down the line toward home again, maybe going a little farther than the last time. |
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| Under Jurowski's close, cool beat, the xylophone skittered cinematically, the harps cast their blurred, codeine glow, the percussion interlude was a grinning carnival. |
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| On Wednesday morning, an Eastern fox squirrel skittered away from my front porch as I left for work. |
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| The first mammals were small, nocturnal, rodentlike creatures that skittered around the feet of dinosaurs for 140 million years. |
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| More than 150 celebrities, fans and mentally disabled athletes skittered onto AMF Rocket Lanes late Saturday night to raise funds for the Tri-Valley Special Olympics. |
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| The puck skittered to the left point where Lawrence Smith flipped the puck toward the net, the slow-motion knuckler eluding Ginn and stunning the arena into silence. |
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| But beginning on June 23, 2001, B15A skittered westward for several days before becoming stuck again about 5 km away and resuming its small, back-and-forth movements. |
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