370 examples of stealthy in sentences

An intuition told him what it was before he looked round to see Henshaw, with his characteristic, rather stealthy walk, coming towards them.

" So down sat they together round the fire, and, what time the little buxom man viewed Beltane 'twixt stealthy lids from golden spur to open bascinet, the Bailiff fell to his tale, as followeth: "Know then, good and noble sir knight, that I sat me, but two days since, in right fair and goodly estate, my lackeys to hand, my men-at-arms at my back (twenty tall fellows).

Beltane presently espied certain figures moving in the valley below, stealthy figures that were men of Sir Rollo's van-ward.

Thus, singing, cursing, quarrelling, came they to keep their ward within these dark and silent woods, crashing through the underbrush careless of their going and all unheeding the sombre, stealthy forms that rose up so silently behind them and before from brush and brake and thicket, creeping figures that moved only when the night-wind moaned in the shivering leaves.

Secret, covert, surreptitious, furtive, clandestine, underhand, stealthy.

Only when he half-raised himself to make certain he was advancing in a direct course could we see him, and when, after perhaps twenty minutes of such stealthy approach, the deeper shadow cast by the fortification itself had been gained, he was entirely lost to our view.

He concealed the offerings with a stealthy motion, as if ashamed of his weakness in accepting them, and then hurried away to his work.

It arrived with a stealthy step before the Presidency door.

Another sound, too, at length broke the stillnessa stealthy footfall on the deck.

The men above listened, in breathless silence, but the stealthy approach of the cat upon the bird could not have been more still, than that, of these two experienced warriors.

The creature had got into its long, swinging, stealthy trot, its sponge-like feet making no sound upon the hard sand.

David came in with stealthy footfall and softly replenished the fire.

A dozen pictures came to him of Sinclair slipping into the town under cover of the night, of the stealthy approach, of the gunplay that would follow.

There was something stealthy about his movements and when he looked back, as if to see if Kit were watching, the latter got up.

It moved with a curious stealthy gait, making no noise, and this was enough for Kit.

He was not, as a rule, vindictive, but the stealthy attack had induced a dangerous mood and he was sorry he had missed the man.

As the day advanced the radiance crept down toward the valleys; but still those stealthy clouds advanced like a besieging army, taking deliberate possession of the summits, one after another, while gray skirmishers moved through the air above us.

"One scream and I'll What were you going to do with that poker?" He took a stealthy step forward.

My line-guards tell me that stealthy figures leading shadowy donkeys are crossing to and fro all night long through my lines.

Nutting, his infant task, he plies, On moves with soft and stealthy tread, And call'd, in tone subdued replies, As if he feard to wake the dead.

From such stealthy influences the man of rigid convictions is often in more danger than the man of no convictions at all, for rigid convictions rather often indicate inexperience and imperfect observation; experience, thereforeespecially emotional experiencesometimes warps them into strange and hideous shapes.

It was splendid, that patient, stealthy approach, splendid in its mastery of the still hunt; but beyond this it was more, it was fearful.

The unalterable Shall I perform ignoblysteal away, With stealthy coward flight forsake her?

At his incitement The Generals made that stealthy flight TERZKY.

I was on the point of falling into the arms of Morpheus in the land of Nod, when a stealthy attempt to open the door sent the chair with a crash to the floor.

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