"Scoot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... light which lengthened into streaks, the shadows, the other vehicles, the glaring fronts of theatres in Federal Circle—formed a ribbon of smutched panorama, the running of which obliterated vertical lines and made all the world horizontal. At each crossing we jumped, landing again to scoot forward to the next, where, through the opening of side streets, came the faint sound of whistles in the harbor; and still, Estabrook,—confound him!—to my cautions bellowed through ...
— The Blue Wall - A Story of Strangeness and Struggle • Richard Washburn Child
... course they will! We must take it in at once. Let us scoot round the other way, and go in by the back door before Laurette and ...
— The Princess of the School • Angela Brazil
... question, the Gray Fox bethought him that it might be just as well to scoot for home, lest other councils should prevail about the capital. Such councils had prevailed, and in the recent past. He had still in mind the embarrassing episode of Willett's "instructed" descent upon ...
— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King
... Dink, there's half a dozen of us. We've got all the laundry bags in the house heaped up just outside of Beekstein's door and, I say, we're going to pile 'em all up on top of him and then jump on and pie him, and scoot for our rooms before old Bundy can jump the stairs and nab us. It'll be regular touch and ...
— The Varmint • Owen Johnson
... politely. "I only had one letter wrong, and, anyhow, they do scoot, don't they? Well, Boy Scouts then, if ...
— The Torch Bearer - A Camp Fire Girls' Story • I. T. Thurston
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