The other made no reply; a weight seemed to have fallen upon him along with his new outfit, and he slunk into the darkness.

And thus stood they, side by side, until the tramp of feet was died away, until the last trembling villager had slunk from sight and the broad road was deserted, all save for Cuthbert the esquire, and divers horses that lay stiffly in the dust, silent and very still.

He looked around as if he wanted to slink out of sight.

Where and how he followed, Rudolph never could have told; but once, as they ran slinking through the heaviest smoke and, as it seemed, the heart of the turmoil, he recognized the yawning rim of a clay-pit, not a stone's throw from his own gate.

He slunk to her feet.

All that day he followed in the trail of the team, with Gray Wolf slinking behind him.

Kazan slunk in the sand while his captor fastened the end of the hide rope to the stern of the canoe.

"Stand fast!" The last two words, directed to Calder came, with a metallic hardness, for the marshal started as a great black dog slipped from behind a tree and slunk towards him.

A wolf race nourished on the knees of purple kings, how should they ever come down to wearing any man's collar, to slink at heel and retrieve for him?

Slaves or serfs, however, were not allowed to carry weapons, and slunk past the free men without making any sign.

The intruder made a step forward, a step as light as the fall of feathers, but it was not half so stealthy as the movement of Black Bart as he slunk towards the door.

Instantly he was using the club again, until with a whining cry Kazan slunk under the protection of the snag to which he was fastened.

The step for which he raised his forefoot was not completed for down the hollow behind him he saw a grey skulker slinking with its belly close to the ground.

Black Bart slunk at his heels, sniffing.

It was human, and Gray Wolf slunk behind Kazan and whined.

" "True enough; but at the same time, when it came to a question of fight, we have had to slink about like a cat in the night, afraid to show ourselves to larger and heavier adversaries.

Slowly he began slinking toward her.

However, it is become a serious matter that I should convince you I neither slunk from the task through a wilful deserting neglect, or through any (most imaginary on your part) distaste of "Chaucer;" and I will try my hand again,I hope with better luck.

The schoolma'ams quivered with fear, but the boys slunk to their places and I harangued them to the effect, that they could have peace or war; if peace, they would be treated kindly and be taught to become successful men; if war, they alone would suffer, for I had come there to stay.

Scrooge and the Phantom came into the presence of this man, just as a woman with a heavy bundle slunk into the shop.

Anyhow, it was no good waiting about till I collapsed from exhaustion, so, getting on my feet, I slunk along the laurels as far as the end of the drive, and then crept across in the shadow of an overhanging tree.

Still more clearly came the wild voice of the carnival, and no longer to be held back by Kazan's leadership, the four huskies dropped their heads and slunk like shadows in its direction.

Well, we drew up a very strong platform and were on the point of carrying it unanimously when our secretary, a clever fellow but temperamental, like all poodles, spotted the big yellow cat from No. 14 slinking down the street on some poisonous errand or other, and the meeting adjourned in what I can only describe as a disorderly manner.

Then we entered an outskirt of dusty red lanes bordered by clay hovels with draped figures slinking by like ghosts.

About ten o'clock in the evening the bombardment slackened for a time and the inhabitants of Antwerp's underworld began to creep out of their subterranean hiding-places and slink like ghosts along the quays in search of food.