Everyone was busy and scurrying around trying to get their own work done.
At various points, speakers and the scurrying sopranos extend the music into the auditorium.
Then this is just the book to send you scurrying back to the party.
But another harsh, domineering fanfare and the irruption of the percussion in militaristic rhythms has the music scurrying for the shadows once more.
For the most part, they present material in hushed whispers - scurrying lines constructed from chromatic clusters, often in imitation or even canon - and any dynamic climaxes are swiftly stifled.
Lost in this abridgment are the city dwellers, seen always at a distance as black dots scurrying along on sun-drenched pavements or as a compact mass in ferries and thoroughfares.
She sent her researchers scurrying to find every bad statistic and every chance remark made by a commentator to construct a dreary litany of gloom.
This is an engine scurrying ahead of the main line of wagons, blowing its little whistle and emitting a pleasant plume of steam.