"Scudding" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... be off in fifteen minutes,' cried Gladys, and ran off to her own room to make ready for her journey, Miss Peck fussing about her as usual, anxious to see that she forgot nothing which could protect her from the storm. It was indeed a wild morning, a heavy rain scudding like drift before the biting wind, and the sky thickly overcast with ink-black clouds; but they drove off in a closed carriage, and took no hurt from the angry elements. They did not speak much during the journey. In addition to her natural excitement and ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan
... as a cloud covered the scudding moons, 'I do hope you may see her, and somehow I think, too, you will. But, Dodd,' the moons emerged, and the lower one was in transit across the face of the upper, 'I must call your attention to this strange peculiarity ...
— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap
... repulsion energy once more and the Nomad shot skyward like a rocket. Through the floor port he saw Nazu's tiny ovoid scudding over the treetops. ...
— Creatures of Vibration • Harl Vincent
... summoned me to her private chamber. I went, and found her much troubled in mind; never before had I seen her so deeply moved. She was alone, and, like some trapped lioness, walked to and fro across the marble floor, while thought chased thought across her mind, each, as clouds scudding over the sea, for a moment casting its shadow in ...
— Cleopatra • H. Rider Haggard
... not say much, she was so astonished, but as soon as Ann had gone, scudding across the fields, she went in with the ...
— The Adventures of Ann - Stories of Colonial Times • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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