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"Skedaddle" Quotes from Famous Books

... said. "Stroke a cat and you'll get scratched. Shy a brick at a cat, and she'll spit at you and skedaddle. You're poor company to-night, ...

— Miss Mapp • Edward Frederic Benson

... in the doorway, waving to the girls. Then she saw Abe, his arms piled high with wood. "Come in," she said. "Sally has had her bath. Now I've got a tub of good hot water and a gourd full of soap waiting for you. Skedaddle out of those old clothes and throw ...

— Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance • Frances Cavanah

... of the Voodoo gods, and the large stone in front was undoubtedly the sacrificial stone. How you ever got away alive passes my comprehension. They evidently thought that you would try to leave in the day-time, and had things all arranged for taking a shot at you somewhere, but your nocturnal skedaddle knocked their plans galley west. There is one thing dead sure, those Voodoo priests are bad medicine, as we used to say out West, and you want to keep your weather-eye open until you are safe on board a steamer and out of ...

— Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales • Charles B. Cory

Words linked to "Skedaddle" : run, fly the coop, lam, run away, head for the hills, hightail it, scarper, take to the woods, bunk, break away, turn tail, escape, flight, scat