Sneaking

Examples

• Sneaking in and out, so as nobody hears how you come or go! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I consider his planting one of his menial tools in the yard, an act of sneaking and sniffing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Was ever such a sneaking varmint? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Come in, you sneaking warmint; wot are you stopping outside for, as if you was ashamed of your master! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He opened the package showing the books, somewhat to the disgust of the officer, who imagined he had caught a burglar sneaking away in the dark alley with his booty. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They crowd you --infest you--swarm about you, and sweat and smell offensively, and look sneaking and mean, and obsequious. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Another glance over my shoulder discovered the first eyes sneaking on me again. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I'm not a going to be made unlucky by _your_ sneaking. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• You dirty sneaking American Italian. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• But it's worthy of the sneaking spirit that robs a live man. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Yes; he did not stay many minutes in the house: Missis was very high with him; she called him afterwards a 'sneaking tradesman. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• They writes fifty hands; they're not like sneaking you, as writes but one. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Why not have kept him here among the rest, and made a sneaking, snivelling pickpocket of him at once? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Oh, it's worse than foolish; it's downright sneaking, you know,' replied Lowten, nibbing the pen with a contemptuous face. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• P'raps it's them that writes fifty hands, and that's not like sneaking you as writes but one. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

Editor: Vince