One of the Mice, peeping
stealthily out, saw her and said, "Ah, my good madam, even though you should turn into a meal-bag, we will not come near you.
It is as if an invisible hand had been
stealthily uplifted from the bottom to catch hold of her keel as it glides through the water.
The noise of the approaching horses had ceased, and I judged the Indians were creeping
stealthily upon me along the little ledge which led to my living tomb.
And now, as the two stood frozen in terror, I saw the author of that fearsome sound creeping
stealthily into view.
With the coming of night he set forth, and Werper, who had scaled the cliffs alone behind the ape-man's party, and hidden through the day among the rough boulders of the mountain top, slunk
stealthily after him.
Coutras had a sense that the child was
stealthily watching him from behind a tree.
Black robber bees are swiftly and
stealthily prowling about the combs, and the short home bees, shriveled and listless as if they were old, creep slowly about without trying to hinder the robbers, having lost all motive and all sense of life.
A smile--a horrid, deforming, unnatural smile--spread slowly,
stealthily, devilishly over his face.
It came into the park at the stroke of midnight and glided
stealthily through the trees; it appeared to him to pass through the trunks of the trees.
They left the house
stealthily, and hurrying through a labyrinth of streets, arrived at length before a public-house, which Noah recognised as the same in which he had slept, on the night of his arrival in London.
The girl evidently dared not fire for fear of wounding me, but I saw her sneak
stealthily and cat-like toward the flank of the attackers.
Then, from out of the mysterious blackness before him, there came to his ears the sound of naked feet moving
stealthily upon stone--approaching nearer and nearer to where he lay, unarmed and defenceless.
