As a boy, I'd scurry away from my father at the market while he did his deals just to peek over the wall, dream of, perhaps, crossing it one day, seeing England for myself.
(v) to move about or proceed hurriedly, Syn. skitter, scamper, scuttle, Example:so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground
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