Furtive

‘All the “great secrets” under the mountains had turned out to be just empty night: there was nothing more to find out, nothing worth doing, only nasty furtive eating and resentful remembering.

She wondered; then she was just a grain troubled; next a dim suspicion came and went—came again; she watched; a furtive glance told her worlds—and then her heart broke, and she was jealous, and angry, and the tears came and she hated everybody.

Poor Frank had had almost no experience in talking to anyone, having spent a furtive childhood as Secret Agent X-9.

Let them do you fealty for their lands.” “Even the Tullys?” “If there are any Tullys left when we are done.” Littlefinger looked like a boy who had just taken a furtive bite from a honeycomb.

Yes, who has not done it?” And with a furtive glance at his son’s face, the count went out of the room. … Nikoláy had been prepared for resistance, but had not at all expected this.

He had trotted back to his sand- crawler, a furtive grin on his sunblackened face.

Do you want to be the death of me?” asked the man, in a furtive, frightened way.

But off the main way, Count Fenring and his lady noted the rubbish heaps, the scabrous brown walls reflected in the dark puddles of the streets, and the furtive scurrying of the people.

“Made by goblins, I think?”“And paid for by wizards,” said Bill quietly, and the goblin shot him a look that was both furtive and challenging.A strong wind gusted against the cottage windows as Bill and Ollivander set off into the night.

By midday they passed through Tillingham, which, strangely enough, seemed to be quite silent and deserted, save for a few furtive plunderers hunting for food.

They are furtive.

What hideous, furtive hand is that which is slipped into the pocket of victory?

It appeared however to Milady that in one of the furtive glances she darted from time to time at the grating of the door she thought she saw the ardent eyes of the young man through the narrow opening.

Also, there was nothing frightening about their behavior-nothing furtive, nothing menacing.

With his mailed gauntlet he brushed away a furtive tear and was overheard by those privileged burghers who happened to be in his immediate entourage to murmur to himself in a faltering undertone: ―God blimey if she aint a clinker, that there bleeding tart.

Everything was hushed, strained, even furtive.

In those places, he was required to confine himself to furtive burrowings through narrow passages where only prescient caution kept him from encountering water-pockets.

Usually Eunice and he were merely neighborhood chums, and quarreled with a wholesome and violent lack of delicacy; but now and then, after the color and scent of a dance, they were silent together and a little furtive, and Babbitt was worried.

Such a fearful, furtive thing, however, I knew I should get no joy from coupling with her.

He stares so long I find myself casting furtive glances at the one-way glass, hoping for some direction from Haymitch, but my earpiece stays silent.

Doc Daneeka had lost his head during Milo’s bombardment; instead of running for cover, he had remained out in the open and performed his duty, slithering along the ground through shrapnel, strafing and incendiary bombs like a furtive, wily lizard from casualty to casualty, administering tourniquets, morphine, splints and sulfanilamide with a dark and doleful visage, never saying one word more than he had to and reading in each man’s bluing wound a dreadful portent of his own decay.