A skulk of foxes, a cowardice of curs are tonight’s traffic whispering in the yards and lanes.

A skulk of fox padded daintily over a stream-slashed meadow, and a herd of deer like iron ornaments stood stock still in their winter pelage.

[…] a skulk of priests flapped out of the Church of San Geronimo, and women kneeling at novena put away their beads […]

The law was served by a skulk of informers, who traded their whispers to the royal foresters and woodwards, who gilded their tales for the verderers and regarders, who presented the guilty to the forest Justices.

[…] they went on, down the road, staggering, and shouldering each other, like a skulk of Jacobean villains.

Ten days after the attacks, a skulk of insurance executives met with President Bush and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans to press for the creation of a multibillion-dollar government safety net to limit their exposure to future terrorist incidents.

A part of their company, who had been sent out on a skulk, had not returned, and great anxiety was felt lest they had fallen into an ambush and been captured.

There was only the danger that his horse might lame himself in the night; but then he could go back in the hills and make a skulk on foot.

Willie knew that the time was propitious for a skulk across Hall, thence into the class-room of Mr. Beach.

That gave him three or four more hours of darkness in which to plan an escape more sensible than a skulk to the hut next door.

“I shall do my duty, Mr. Jackson,” replied Newton, “and fear no consequences.”
“Indeed! you saw how I settled a skulk just now;—beware of his fate!”

Toward evening there was something to be done on deck, and the carpenter who belonged to the watch was missing. “Where’s that skulk, Chips?” shouted Jermin down the forecastle scuttle.

If you should ever need help, my son, let this be your rule—‘never ask it from the man who deserted his country in her hour of need.’ The soldier’s child will find no mercy from a skulk, depend on it.

An exempt, a skulk, or one upon whom rested the faintest suspicion of evading duty or shrinking in the critical hour of impending battle, was the special object of his wrath.

Stephen's craze for physical culture increased, and now it began to invade the schoolroom. Dumb-bells appeared in the schoolroom bookcases, while half worn-out gym shoes skulked in the corners.

He has been seen with her, by one whom he would not know, at Cuper’s Gardens; dressed like a Sea-officer, and skulking, like a thief, into the privatest walks of the place.

Noble brother, I am
Not one of those men who in words are valiant,
And when it comes to action skulk away.

Fully a dozen of the citizens had seen him hastening toward the woods and noted his skulking air …

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