Lurking

Examples

• But he was now married; and she condemned her heart for the lurking flattery, which so much heightened the pain of the intelligence. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The best-looking among us will not look very well, lurking at a corner, and Bradley came out of that disadvantage very poorly indeed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Well, now, let us see where this rat has been lurking. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was like something lurking in the darkness within him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I passed whole hours in going from house to house, listening whether I could detect some lurking sign of human existence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• A man with a very odd manner indeed, and with a lurking look that was quite oppressive. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• No lurking horrors were to upbraid him for his easy credulity. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I believe I had at this time some lurking distrust of Steerforth. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Like a lurking reptile it leaped up at me as she eagerly bent forward towards the place in which I was sitting. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The mistake of allowing themselves to be surprised, lurking about the terrace at night, by Gabriel Betteredge. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He may have been lurking in and out, and just holding his own betwixt two or three bridges, for hours back. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Four of them, well armed, searched every cranny and lurking-hole, till at last they found me flat on my face behind the stone. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• What mystery was there lurking? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Every vine and bush seemed but the lurking-place of some huge and horrible beast waiting to bury gleaming fangs into her soft flesh. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I did not want to take the chances of having an enemy lurking in our rear. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east of London Bridge. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Having made sure that no persons were lurking about anywhere in our grounds, we turned back. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• What I cannot describe is, how, in the innermost recesses of my own heart, I had a lurking jealousy even of Death. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Hudson had been seen lurking about, and it was believed by the police that he had done away with Beddoes and had fled. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Since then she has looked like a woman in a dream, half dazed, and with terror always lurking in her eyes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• So he remains, dodging and lurking about in the gloom of the staircase while they confer. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Like a lurking reptile it dropped out of sight again as she instantly resumed her former position in the chair. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But there was still something lurking behind, of which prudence forbade the disclosure. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• One had fancied that such lip-curves were mostly lurking underground in the South as fragments of forgotten marbles. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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