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  • Lets see, Boner graduated Yale and then got an MBA from Harvard … His daddy (Skulker) may have been able to influence that, ya think?

    Think Progress » McCain Falsely Claims the Iraqi Prime Minister Has ‘Condemned Hezbollah’ 2006

  • Skulker has caught a little girl, sir, ’he replied;

    Wuthering Heights 2002

  • A beast of a servant came up with a lantern, at last, shouting — ‘Keep fast, Skulker, keep fast!’

    Wuthering Heights 2002

  • An unexpected aid presently appeared in the shape Throttler, whom I now recognized as a son of our old Skulker: it had spent its whelphood at the Grange, and was given by my father to Mr. Hindley.

    Wuthering Heights 2002

  • Afterwards, they dried and combed her beautiful hair, and gave her a pair of enormous slippers, and wheeled her to the fire; and I left her, as merry as she could be, dividing her food between the little dog and Skulker, whose nose she pinched as he ate; and kindling a spark of spirit in the vacant blue eyes of the Lintons — a dim reflection from her own enchanting face.

    Wuthering Heights 2002

  • Thom won anyway, and while he was stripping the saddle from Skulker, Nynaeve put her head under the wagon seat and levered up a floorboard with her belt knife.

    The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993

  • Nynaeve was grateful to stuff her bundles under the driver's seat and climb up beside him, but not so pleased to see Juilin riding Skulker.

    The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993

  • A beast of a servant came up with a lantern at last, shouting, 'Keep fast, Skulker, keep fast!'

    Wuthering Heights 1847

  • Afterwards they dried and combed her beautiful hair, and gave her a pair of enormous slippers, and wheeled her to the fire; and I left her, as merry as she could be, dividing her food between the little dog and Skulker, whose nose she pinched as he ate, and kindling a spark of spirit in the vacant blue eyes of the Lintons -- a dim reflection from her own enchanting face.

    Wuthering Heights 1847

  • 'That's Miss Earnshaw!' he whispered to his mother; 'and look how Skulker has bitten her -- how her foot bleeds!'

    Wuthering Heights 1847

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