Girls in light summer frocks were making sheep's eyes on the sly at their brothers' friends, while fathers were pulling cakes of chocolate out of their pockets.

Think of all those grown-up, so-called civilized people being so ferociously intent on chasing one poor little animal for its lifeand feeling, when at last the huntsman holds up his poor brush, with absurd pride (if indeed the fox is not too sly for them), that they have really done something clever, in that with so many horses and dogs and so much noise, they have actually contrived to catch and kill one fox!"

One of the girls of Keewaydin had been out canoeing on the sly with some boy from Camp Alamonta thing forbidden in the Keewaydin codeand was being brought back in this surreptitious manner.

A few had learned; and these, in every instance where we inquired as to their teacher, had been taught on the sly in their childhood by their white playmates.

but I know that, as I drew the cangiar, the basest and the slyest of all the devils was whispering me, tongue in cheek: 'Kill, killand be merry.' With excruciating slowness, like a crawling glacier, tender as a nerve of the touching leaves, I moved, I stole, obliquely toward her through the wall of bush, the knife behind my back.

Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly on account of the old leather strap that he used in place of a chain.

There was something in the wind, as the sagacious housekeeper observed; surely her young missus was not going to be married on the sly to the captain!

Said a chief-of-police to Major Shaughnessy years afterward: "Major, there was only one thing that kept your expedition from succeedingyou were too sly about it.