skurry away

English

Verb

skurry away (third-person singular simple present skurries away, present participle skurrying away, simple past and past participle skurried away)

1. Dated spelling of scurry away.
   • 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “The Pool of Tears”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 18:

     The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.

   • 1883 November 20, J. R., “On Gettysburg’s Field. The Struggle for Round-Top. The Awful Conflict for the Priceless Prize Which Was Won by the Union Troops.”, in Paul Philippoteaux, Cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg, […], published [1885]:

     As we burst on them out of the smoke of their own fire, yelling like a pack of wolves in sight of their prey, they broke and scattered as a flock of partridges skurries away at the shot of the hunter.

   • 1886, Lawrence L. Lynch, “A ‘’Mellican Lady’s’ Little Trick”, in Dangerous Ground; or, The Rival Detectives (The Great Detective Series), Chicago, Ill.: Alex. T. Loyd & Co., […], page 99:

     Uttering a startled: “Oh, my!” Millie skurries away, and the Celestial returns to the side of the detective, who seems just now to be playing a losing game.

   • 1886, Fergus W[right] Hume, “Brian Receives a Letter”, in […] The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. […], London: The Hansom Cab Publishing Company, […], published [1888], page 161:

     On he galloped, […]—past a silent shepherd’s hut, which stood near a wide creek, and then splashing through the cool water, which wound away through the dark plain like a thread of silver in the moonlight—then, again, the wide grassy plain dotted here and there with tall clumps of shadowy trees, and on either side he could see the sheep skurrying away like fantastic spectres—[…]

   • 1890, Dick Doosenberry [pseudonym; Frank L. Chaney], “The Prairie Dog”, in Gleanings among the Kansas Sheaves, Kansas City, Mo.: Inter-State Publishing Company, page 223:

     Erect and alert all the summer day, / Near his dug-out the prairie dog sits; / If a stranger comes nigh he skurries away, / Nearly frightened out of his wits.