The French window that opened from the dining-room upon the porch was swinging wide opena wonderful invitation to enter for any sneak thief who might happen to pass that way.

If his Greek-loving critics made objections here, they had the advantage of him: unless indeed they too, in their Alexandrian predilections, had a sneaking regard for certain shapings of verse into altars and hatchets, such as have been charged upon Theocritus himself, and which might be supposed to warrant any other conceit on occasion.]

The truth was, I felt a sneaking desire to witness the match-game on the Common, between the Union Base-Ball Club, No. 1, of Ward Eleven, and the Excelsiors of Smithville.

"He treats me so very ill; not openly and above-board, as we say, but in such a nasty sneaking way, he is always trying to injure me.

Bad characters lurked behind the fences, from which they would sometimes take a sneak shot at the Showman as he passed.

An hour was passed in vain search for the sneaking beast, which had evidently taken to flight.

150 Thus, for a paltry sneaking bribe, We cheat ourselves, and all the tribe; For all the magazine contains, Grows from our annual toil and pains.

Most of them will grant that we may get a few decent soups, though no doubt they retain a sneaking conviction that at best these are "unco wersh," and puddings or sweets are almost exclusively vegetarian.

And if, as you say, we owe her everything, then I count 'twould be a mean, dirty return to make her live out of England and feel she has a sneaking coward for a father.

Then, that haunted roomin which old Mrs. Battle diedwhereinto I have crept, but always in the day-time, with a passion of fear; and a sneaking curiosity, terror-tainted, to hold communication with the past.

" "Bein' as he ain't took nothin', I won't knock the head off him," said the Californian, as he announced himself to be; "but he ain't any business to look so much like a sneaking dog, so I'll punch him on general principles.

You will make poor pitiful sneaking excuses!

"Well, if any of 'em take a sneaking notion to look in on us, why I'm meaning to use up a few of these flat-nosed cartridges in this six-shot magazine," he remarked, sturdily, as he glanced cautiously around.

"Was he a man that had the air of a sneaking runaway?"

gentlemen! was there ever such a poor sneaking scarecrow of an idol as that gaping straw-stuffed inanity you worship, and call honor?

It would be hard to suspect such murderous villains of any sneaking treachery that they wouldn't be guilty of if they could.

It was a dam' sneaking trick.

I had a funny little feeling of tenderness for everything, which made fussing over it all a pleasure, even while I felt all the time that I was doing a sneak act and had really no right to touch her belongings.

Years ago she had sacrificed her bloom to some sneaking wretch who flattered a God with prayers, then enticed and bewitched and married him!

"Sailyes; but men go in gunning-punts, sneak-boats, and even steam-launches, to surround the flocks of Wild Ducks that are lying low, trusting perhaps to a covering of fog, and when it lifts these water pot-hunters commit slaughter which it would be slander to call sport.

Some sort of a sneak game about it, of course, but we've got to mind our P's and Q's now.

Oh, I don't mean watching them in a disagreeable way, so that they see it; and, of course, I don't listennot the sneak kind of listening.