scurry
verb (used without object)
to go or move quickly or in haste.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that will be taking place in the future.
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“Is that all?” she replied, saucily; “you all will be scurrying south like so many rabbits in less than a week.”
From Raiding with Morgan by Byron A. (Byron Archibald) Dunn