Synonyms:
hurrying, scurrying
Meaning: moving with great haste; "affection for this hurrying driving...little man"; "lashed the scurrying horses"
Usage examples
They went out into the road, which the moon threw into bold relief along its white stretch, but there was no figure scurrying away.
The shot shaved us pretty close to windward nevertheless, striking the water for the last time just short of our taffrail, and scurrying along and ploughing up the surface close enough to give us a pretty copious shower-bath of spray ere it finally sank just ahead of us.
Sola and I had entered a building upon the front of the city, in fact, the same one in which I had had my encounter with the apes, and, wishing to see what had caused the sudden retreat, I mounted to an upper floor and peered from the window out over the valley and the hills beyond; and there I saw the cause of their sudden scurrying to cover.