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But his incipient campaign was scuttled, and he soon separated from his fourth wife.

“This strategy seemed do-able and brilliant,” Salem nonetheless wrote of the scuttled scheme in his self-review.

The dispute was settled with so many bombs and bullets that both plans were scuttled.

The plan was scuttled two years ago, according to published reports.

I hoped my translator, who had scuttled off, would raise the alarm.

My spurs fairly lifted the dun horse, and we scuttled in the opposite direction like a scared antelope.

In her nostrils was the autumn perfume of the woods, and as they strode forward in silence a rabbit scuttled from their path.

I covered the entire floor, shaking a bit in nervousness as a rat scuttled to safety.

The smugglers scuttled the ship and endeavoured to escape, but were captured, and are thought to have been all hanged.

From the grass nine Indians arose, stooped, and scuttled off like a covey of running quail.