The fox moved furtively toward the chicken coop. From LearnThat.org.
The soldiers were furtively crawling through the night. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a furtive glance. ,a furtive manner. From Dictionary.com.
Whereat you glance about furtively and quickly eat it. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
And then he saw the men furtively at work at something. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
The narrator paused and furtively surveyed the jestress. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
GYLLENHAAL blushes and looks furtively at his PANTALOONS. From Wordnik.com. [Prince of Persia: is this a dragger I see before me?] Reference
He pressed it into her hand furtively when she looked around. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
Miss Clementina glanced furtively toward the house next door. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
A daring idea occurred to him, and he looked around furtively. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium] Reference
She came around the chair, and he furtively wiped his cheek with. From Wordnik.com. [Citadel] Reference
I pined to open it furtively, and read at least the first few lines. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She takes a sip of her wine and looks around the restaurant furtively. From Wordnik.com. [Ready For The Real Scoop?] Reference
Pendrilla furtively wiped her eyes in promising to attend the play-party. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
"Laugh!" whispered Jacqueline, furtively pressing the arm of the duke's fool. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
The Doctor, meantime, furtively watched day by day the lovely face of his wife. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
He had been furtively repairing the viewscreen and thinking dark thoughts the while. From Wordnik.com. [The Marooner] Reference
Mr. North laid aside the newspaper from behind which he had been furtively watching her. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
So the lower part of his moral being began to cower; he glanced furtively at the company. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Another day went by without a noontide observation; but, at midnight, I furtively obtained. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
The others watched him furtively, as Jim told Maggie afterwards "from the tail of me eye.". From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Mrs. Farnshaw watched her daughter furtively and strained her ears for signs of giving up. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
At 4: 17, Lorraine furtively started on Beverly's nails with her thin-bristled paint brush. From Wordnik.com. [The Color of Silence is Radium Green] Reference
I glanced around furtively and then pretended to walk confidently back to the shoe section. From Wordnik.com. [Cherry Bomb] Reference
So day after day she spied longingly and furtively upon the comings and goings of the big cat. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
They stood clustered about the doorway in groups, looking furtively at us, and whispering counsel. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Singularly pale, unusually tranquil, the duke's fool furtively watched his master and the princess. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
I had been there about twenty minutes when I caught sight of Roger de Puymartin escaping furtively. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There is no unrecognized and uncounted factor which may steal in furtively and take Him by surprise. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Messrs. Davlin and Percy affected much friendliness, and watched each other furtively, day and night. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Regarding her furtively, Triboulet's courage returned, since she was looking at the coals, not at him. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Diane ceased furtively to regard Caillette, while the Queen of Navarre laughed nervously and murmured. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Ben followed him to the front door, whispering like a conspirator and glancing furtively up the stairs. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
He strode to the veranda steps, and, crossing to the open door, looked furtively within the living-room. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
To read the morning paper over other people's shoulders — not furtively, but with a bold and open eye. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Believers furtively watched the entrance of the Prophet's lodge, which was decorated with strange symbols. From Wordnik.com. [Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada] Reference
A man ran quickly, furtively, across the lawn and disappeared in the shadow of the trees bordering the lake. From Wordnik.com. [Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall or, Leading a Needed Rebellion] Reference
Her eyes strayed furtively toward the Mary girl, who had not paid the slightest attention to this late arrival. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
He, too, upon his part, looked furtively at them, wondering whether they had yet heard the thing that had befallen him. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He would glance furtively about, like one who is expecting an enemy; and it was plain that he was meditating a retreat. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference
I watched her face without seeming to do so, and by the light of occasional street lamps saw her studying me furtively. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
He was furtively contemplating the tip of a very red ear and a strip of cheek, which were about all he could see of Chicken Little's face. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
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