furtive

and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest, might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion, as it had been before.

A few days later, though, on a beach, I noticed a man sneaking furtive looks at her bulge, which was finally beginning to show.

The man's furtive manner made the policeman watch him to see what he would do.

Slip across the grasslands of Mongolia, ruins of the Great Wall the only witnesses to my furtive gait?

The mother's head turned for a quick furtive look at Hagen and he saw in her eyes a burning, hawklike triumph.

And then there's all that furtive eye rubbing your "friend" does to hide his tears, which inflames his eyes even further.

To take(something, especially something of Little value)in a furtive manner; snitch.

Actually, I don't want to be so furtive as a spy, but I had to, because in such a deep night, nobody can be my accomplice.

Casting a furtive glance over his shoulder, the felon slipped out of the main prison gate to be swallowed up in the British frog.

He gave her a grateful, furtive look, and went back to his guest; an impulse had made him hide from her the true condition of affairs.

then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension.

clare arose in the light of a dawn that was ashy and furtive , as though associated with crime.

One stately overhead shot slowly closes in on the two of them lying in furtive rapture on a sailboat (that his wife has just bought him).

Two bars of furtive string-rhythms later, the soloist crashes back into the scene, growing up out of a powerful tuba-throb.

Japanese love hotels, a refuge for space-constrained married couples and furtive philanderers, have long been a money-spinner.

Her face as she came down the stairs was impassive , gay , with a furtive trouble in the eyes .

Murder must be noiseless, furtive and brutal, as in the gang's improvised killing of a potential whistle-blower (very Torn Curtain).

unlit but for the furtive glimpses of the moon's single pale eye as it slips in and out of the clouds and fog.

His eyes were bloodshot , and he had a curiously furtive way of avoiding one's glance.

He pushed it gently with the tip of his finger, lightly, with the furtive and uneasy gentleness of a cat which is desirous of entering.

I could see furtive wolf shapes dodging in and out of the shadows, eyes shining.

Cast a furtive glance at your friend's answer sheet, scribble a note or two on your arm, perhaps.

He walked very slowly and circumspectly, and there was something indescribably guilty and furtive in his whole appearance.

Our laughter startled people at a nearby table. During the time left to us, out glances were furtive, oblique.

Occasionally I took a furtive glance at him.

As for his sexuality, Mr Maitland refers coyly to occasional "furtive embraces and voyeuristic encounters" , presumably with men.

At the waist just don "t set pager when publicize, dou just as some PHS chuan furtive . "

although ginny weasley went to the yule ball with neville longbottom , she cast furtive glances at harry , hoping not to be detected.

Soames went in with his noiseless step, his jaw firmly set, his eyes furtive.

He had the uncomfortable feeling that he was eavesdropping on something furtive, shameful.

the furtive double life of a terrorist.

Friends often detected something furtive about her.

Bearing others'disdain and mistrust with simmering rage, they skulk back to their shadowy schemes and furtive activities.

Me shyly, obliquely, trying not to be furtive.

Nash is furtive, obsessed and finally lost in a world of overpowering delusions. The diagnosis is schizophrenia.

Mr Nkunda slipped into Rwanda last week still believing that his furtive friendship with Mr Kagame would protect him.

The furtive regime was eventually persuaded to allow a trickle of foreign aid into the deluged region.

It's quite bad form, straight kissing in this club, so we make a furtive exit and hail a taxi.

In a furtive or circumspect manner; indirectly.

To men with this complex, sex is carnal, grubby and furtive instead of being an outward and visible expression of love.

have a subordinate, furtive li of one gather salt that took him, he must be chased after still.

Unlike the furtive break-up of the communes 30 years ago, Tawa's land-auction plans were splashed over newspapers in Beijing.

My movements feel unwittingly furtive, my activity secret.

After they started the game, Moviesign led Furtive Penguin to a spot where he claimed he'd left an energy sword.

put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner.

The teacher was suspicious of the student's furtive behaviour during the exam.

This country's affection is overwhelming and furtive.

A furtive activity could become mainstream.

They were nervous, furtive even.

If all imagination has to build upon a furtive glance or casual motion, people fall in love at first sight.

He cast a furtive glance at her.

But according to the Times, the CIA role in Libya is more furtive. The agency isn't giving guns to the rebels.

Let's name the song "Furtive Mission" .

Its expression is more furtive and it's often mixed with a kind of sublimated shame, but it can be every bit as vitriolic.

A quick or furtive look or glance.

At the station Mr A gives Kyoko a furtive goodbye kiss.

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

Without wishing to be impolite, he tries to steal a furtive glance at who is calling.

filch vt. to take (something, especially something of little value) in a furtive manner

He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it would open in spite of the bolt which fastened it;

But that WAS merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory WAS not satisfactorily under control

He worshipped this new angel with furtive eye, till he saw that she had discovered him;

Pry, To look or inquire closely, curiously, or inquisitively, often in a furtive manner; snoop

cryptic furtive covert covered hidden hideaway shelter veiled

eyes will knit such furtive dreams! to her and him

a menacing and furtive look to his eye

Thinking on Moral and Law--Discussion on Pressmen's Furtive Visit