"The sergeant will have it that they are done with the siege, in which case it wouldn't be surprisin' if they had sneaked away.

Jerry Koswell sneaked away as soon as he could, and Flockley and Larkspur followed him.

When I got into Memphis, I found at the landing a boat called the Statesman, and I sneaked aboard.

" But Rust, blushing deeply at the preposterous closing of the scene, had sneaked quietly out of the room.

The moment Wolf entered the house his crest fell, his tail drooped to the ground, or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation.

40 He rose; and limping from the fray, By both sides mangled, sneaked away.

["Well, where has he sneaked to?"] How in the world should I know?

I rode forward, and, on looking over the bank, the leopard started up and sneaked off alongside of the tall reeds, and was instantly out of sight.

The blacks sneaked all around by the trees, and speared Mr. Kennedy again, in the right leg above the knee a little, and I got speared in the eye, and the blacks were now throwing always, never giving over, and shortly again speared Mr. Kennedy again in the right side.

Even if they hadn't sneaked off like that, and I'd caught the machine, I guess I'd have been like the dog that chased the train.

Quick now!" The three of them sneaked up the companionway.

Fearing that the pirates were returning to the boats by some short route which might take them to where Riggs was hidden, I ran through the grass lane again, and, finding that the persons I was stalking were still farther away, I left the trail and sneaked some twenty yards into the foliage, anxious to see who they were and what they were about.

The last comers learned the startling news that they had just arrested a German general officer, who had sneaked into Paris as a spy to betray the city to the enemy with the connivance of the Bonapartists.

"Well, we rode up on the blind side of the housefrom the north, see, got off, and sneaked around to the east end of the shack.

The fellow sneaked out quite crestfallen, and his creditors have broken him up completely.

He must let no feeble feelings of mercy (sneaked from the sickening Little Englanders and Pro-Boers) prevent him from trying to do his best.

I sneaked over in a skiff last night and got here to get my two pistols and some money and trinkets we'd hid out.

I remember how I sneaked home and upstairs to hide the marks of my blubbering.

"At that a dozen big brutes sneaked out of the line and hurriedly decamped; and I don't think that disease is going to be popular in that regiment.

but that there gypsy might have sneaked you clean out of the woods!

I wonder if he could have sneaked back around and come here?" "Oh, I wish we'd had one of the men stay, I was afraid of something like that, Bessie.

The Woongas had sneaked upon Wabi.

He sneaked in to tell me about the killin' of Pat.

Bog looked very sheepish as he sneaked from one street corner to another, and skulked in shadows to avoid observation, though he tried to flatter himself that he was doing something highly meritorious.

" "And there's that infernal coward of a ranchero," cried Coronado, as the runaway sentry sneaked back to the group.

Then a round vent opened magically and the cyclops sucked the morsel forward into its gullet, thus reversing the natural swallowing process, and smacked its steel lip behind it with a loud and greasy snuck!

A gentleman who visited Newgate informed me that he had been very much surprised at finding so many children there; some of whom were ironed; and on his inquiring the cause of such severity towards children so young, he was told by one of the turnkeys, that he had snuck more trouble with them than he had with old offenders.

George had diverted him with a long story about how his father had made his whole family jump through hoops during his last years and then had snuck off to Atlantic City and spent most of his money before he collapsed.