Steals
[sti:lz]
Examples
- When a man steals cattle, they cut off his right hand and left leg and nail them up in the marketplace as a warning to everybody. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A strange, secret ecstasy steals through my veins at moments. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- From clime to clime, from shore to shore, Shall thrill the magic thread; The new Prometheus steals once more The fire that wakes the dead. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I can preserve myself from priests, and from churches; but love steals in unawares! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I am aware of the contract-grafts, the franchise-steals, the dirty streets, the bribing and the blackmail, the vice-and-crime partnerships, the Big Business alliances of Tammany Hall. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There's a deadness steals over me at times, that the kind of life favours and I don't like. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Yes, he said; the lawlessness of which you speak too easily steals in. Plato. The Republic.
- Get along, _Ingl閟_, and cut thy good-bys short before this one steals the rest of thy explosive. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- More elation and more anxiety; an excitement that steals the hours away fast, and a trouble that ruffles their course. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- When she had spoken to the Secretary of that 'deadness that steals over me at times', her fortitude had made too little of it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The gypsies also believe he is a brother because he steals for pleasure. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Down into the bosom of a stony shepherdess there steals a fleck of light and warmth that would have done it good a hundred years ago. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Aegisthus steals in pale and on tiptoe. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He steals softly over the grass, careful to make no sound; he pauses--fancying she has stirred: he withdraws: not for worlds would he be seen. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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