stealthily they advanced upstream. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective, : stealthy footsteps. From Dictionary.com.
Thus fortified, he removed the largest and sharpest of the dog's ribs, climbed stealthily from the pit and used the bone to stab the guard to death. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Burke 12/2001] Reference
For one thing, she shows up kind of stealthily and not very recklessly, and she uses the word “thanksies.”. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Five Page Challenge!] Reference
High inflation in China -- prices in November rose 5.1 percent from a year earlier after falling for most of 2009 -- continues to "stealthily" erode China's competitiveness as. From Wordnik.com. [China Inflation May Ease Yuan Pressure at Hu-Obama Summit - Bloomberg] Reference
And closing his desk, he stealthily descended the stairs. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Slowly, actual employees stealthily lent their expertise. From Wordnik.com. [They Hacked Real Good, For Free] Reference
Percy crept stealthily round the camp toward the fish-house. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
He also took a swig of his beer and looked at her stealthily. From Wordnik.com. [What are we made of?] Reference
Only two sentries were visible, and these our friend stealthily evaded. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Quentin walked stealthily through the riffles and started false casting. From Wordnik.com. [The Retreat] Reference
I got up and tiptoed stealthily behind Gwen, expecting her to go outside. From Wordnik.com. [Just A Girl] Reference
The spectator advances upon the scene, unaware of the stealthily lurking danger. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
In the grey of the morning we made our way stealthily to the shore by the point. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
Looking back, however, one of the girls saw a dozen or more loping stealthily behind them. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Yet something had happened, so silently, so stealthily that no one gave the matter a thought. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages] Reference
As he stealthily advanced, the moon suddenly rose, flooding the scene with its silvery light. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
The group replaced three members between albums as stealthily as "Bewitched" switched Darrins. From Wordnik.com. [A Date With Destiny] Reference
He could hear the sound of mysterious footsteps walking stealthily to and fro, but no one spoke. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
Rising to her feet, she stealthily circled the house and set off at her best speed for "Heartsease.". From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
At the edge of the stealthily spreading suburbs, the eastern rail network reaches the end of the line. From Wordnik.com. [The Bridge] Reference
A cat creeping to surprise a bird asleep could not have walked more stealthily than he, as he mounted the stairs. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Cinda gingerly lifts the man's arm off of her belly, sits up, and slithers out of bed as stealthily as possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Shoe] Reference
The detective moved stealthily from his hiding-place to the verge of the bluff and glanced over to the spot where the. From Wordnik.com. [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference
Gerfaut looked at him stealthily for a moment, and then lowered his eyes, as if he feared his glance might be noticed. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In politics, as in the movies, timing is all, and Arnold was careful to strike -- stealthily -- at just the right time. From Wordnik.com. [Arnold's Earthquake] Reference
These men, it was said, had quietly and stealthily applied the fire underneath the hotel just as we were leaving the town. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Such raids do not teach a lesson to anybody; they simply serve to intensify the hatred and fuel the urge to act stealthily. From Wordnik.com. [International Mail Call] Reference
A certain signal was to creep stealthily forward, another to strike, and still another to crawl quickly back with the weapon. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
Then, instead of going to the kitchen, she fetched her bundle, stealthily opened the street-door and ran to the corner, where. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
The oyster appears to await its opportunity, it stealthily opens its shell, and a lot of spat looking like a dense cloud is ejected. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Recent experiments threaten to dethrone DNA as surely -- and as stealthily and unexpectedly -- as little mammals replaced dinosaurs. From Wordnik.com. [Holes In Those Genes] Reference
An hour or so later Depper opened it, and going hurriedly past the intervening cottages, knocked stealthily upon the door of Dinah Brome. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
I would feel like a sneak had I stealthily slipped a twenty dollar gold piece into the hand of your hat man and told him to push my goods. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Road] Reference
After toiling all day for their masters they crept stealthily into this back alley, each with a bundle of pitch-pine splinters for lights. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Ovarian cancer spreads stealthily, often prompting few symptoms until malignant cells disperse to form bulky tumors throughout the abdomen. From Wordnik.com. [Breast and Ovarian Cancer: New Hopes, Longer Life] Reference
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