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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Skulk

Skulk like the dishonor’d wretch, whose hireling steel, in secret lifted, reeks with human gore.
—Tobias Smollett

Skulk … like a dog shivering.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne