Chinchillas are naturally very skittish creatures and generally do not like to be held, although they can become very attached to their owners.

Dr. Eckert and others like her want to prevent beaches from being overrun by nighttime turtle seekers, who scare the skittish creatures away.

And to a deer, perhaps the most skittish creature of all ... He was barely a half dozen steps away, unnoticed, on open ground.

The skittish creature was on the alert now, and as soon as Drizzt took another measured step, the deer bolted away.

"Do not go, I beg," the young scholar pleaded, mellowing his voice so as not to frighten the skittish creature.

Alucius had never been able to get within yards of one of the skittish little creatures, yet it sat in the palm of the soarer's hand, quiet, unafraid, and looking curiously at Alucius.

Of all the forest wildlife, he loved these gentle, skittish creatures most.

It suited her, a most elusive woman, in its being hard to pin down and in the very fact of its having such an incongruously un-scentlike name, evoking nothing more than a whir of movement, a glimpse of a skittish creature with antlers.

Her eyes looked out at him through the straw-colored wisps like skittish creatures in the protection of a hedge.