Stealthy

Examples

• A low, stealthy sound came to my ears, not from the direction of Baker Street, but from the back of the very house in which we lay concealed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Alcibiades cast a stealthy look at Caliphronas, and considered a few moments. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• A stealthy glance now and then refreshed her like sips of fresh water after a dusty walk, for the sidelong peeps showed her several propitious omens. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Her stealthy paws tread the very hall Where Snowball used to play, But she only spits at the dogs our pet So gallantly drove away. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He was dark, and smooth-skinned, and full of a stealthy vigour. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Following him with stealthy tread, Mr. Pickwick and Mr. Winkle soon found themselves in the garden. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The touch was as stealthy and as sudden as that other touch which had petrified me from head to foot on the night when we first met. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Presently a faint rustling of the bush apprised him of the stealthy creeping of the thing behind. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• We all felt the sudden chill in the atmosphere, but the Count was the first to notice the stealthy rising of the wind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In this way we should be able to watch our man if he struck a light, and see what his object was in this stealthy nocturnal visit. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

Edited by ELLA