Without so much as a glance at Billy Mink, he scrambled to his feet and up the[163] bank, sure that a new and terrible enemy was at his heels.
"Don't you dare come down from that tree until I tell you you may," said she in her deep, grumbly-rumbly voice, as the twins scrambled up the tree.
They scrambled up and up until they were just as high as they could get.
Straight to the nearest tall tree ran the twins, and up they scrambled.
They scrambled to their feet.
" Boxer scrambled a little higher.
Then and not till then Emily ran too, and scrambled over the shore fence just as the bull started back across the pasture, evidently determined to catch somebody.
She wished the path might go on forever, but presently it veered away from the brook, and when she had scrambled over a mossy, old board fence she found herself in the "front-garden" of New Moon, where Cousin Jimmy was pruning some spirea bushes.
Rebecca heard the sound of the sewing machine in the dining-room and the chopping of meat in the kitchen; so knowing the whereabouts of both her aunts, she scrambled out of the window, caught hold of the lightning rod, slid down to the helpful cleat, jumped to the porch, used the woodbine trellis for a ladder, and was flying up the road in the storm before she had time to arrange any details of her future movements.
It was only a few minutes later that the hunter who had followed Lightfoot across the River reached the bank and scrambled out of his boat.
" said Pooh, and scrambled up as quickly as he could.
When finally she had gotten her breath and scrambled to her feet, Peter Rabbit was almost over to the friendly old brier patch.
And it was such fun that he scrambled up and did it all over again.
We scrambled in, lighted a lamp and found the missing necklace.
' "Five minutes later, Miss Ursula, hooded and cloaked, scrambled soundlessly down the ladder, and in five more minutes she and Kenneth were riding along the road.
He thought it was just an ordinary singing and that everybody ought to stand up, so he scrambled to his feet mighty quick, knowing he'd get a combing down from Maria Millison for sleeping in meeting.
Presently she scrambled down the steep path to the little cove below, where she seemed shut in with rocks and sea and sky.
Now they slid over the slippery rock; then they struggled to their feet and scrambled on.
"I think I grasp the idea, and will be sure to remember not to make your hair blow one way and the tails of your coat another, as a certain sculptor made those of a famous man," laughed Ralph, as the fallen hero scrambled up, amidst general merriment.
" So the boys pulled round into a quiet nook, and the two elder ones scrambled up the rocks, to disappear in the crowd.
