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Follow intently
Answer for the clue "Follow intently ", 5 letters:
stalk
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Word definitions for stalk in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pursue stealthily," Old English -stealcian , as in bestealcian "to steal along, walk warily," from Proto-Germanic *stalkon , frequentative of PIE *stel- , possibly a variant of *ster- (3) "to rob, steal" (see steal (v.)). Compare hark / hear , talk / tell ...
Usage examples of stalk.
She stalked on and shortly came to the Tube branch leading to her allotment, and went down to see how her own crops were doing.
Cursing angrily, he strapped the pipes, to his side and stalked out into the twilight.
The barghest casually tossed Bartholemew and his pitiful weapon across the kitchen and stalked over to the old man.
She laughed at him instead and turned to look for Benito Barranca, who came stalking through the ruins, red knife slashing, cutting down people trying to escape.
Solo stood up, flipped a couple of credits to the bartender, and stalked out before BoShek could catch his attention.
THAT evening, following dinner in the gloomy old Bartram dining room, where Mahinda silently stalked about the table, serving food, Willard Saybrook mentioned to Grace Bartram that he had made a very interesting acquaintance in the person of Harry Vincent.
The shrubby stalks of the plant bear red, coral-like berries which, when ripe, yield grape sugar, and spargancin.
Similarly some of the fresh stalks of the plant, and its unripe berries, as well as the unpeeled tubers cut up as described, if infused for some hours in cold water, will make a liquor in which the folded linen of a compress may be loosely rung out, and applied most serviceably under waterproof tissue, or a double layer of dry flannel.
As the petals die, the stalks roll up and carry the capsular berries down to the surface of the ground.
Gideon Spilett was at first surprised at the odor which exhaled from certain plants with straight stalks, round and branchy, bearing grape-like clusters of flowers and very small berries.
Carson called, and Bult leapt off his pony and stalked over to look at my footprints.
Baal Burra burrowing through the long grass, painfully slow and cheeping plaintively, while Sultan stalked ahead mewing encouragingly.
Mr Burry, that these are the times of the Anti-Christ, that men would wish they had never been born and that pestilence, plague and death would stalk the land?
Elsewhere, Yount was helping Sarah kindle a campfire with some dead weed stalks, and Clover Lee and Magpie Maggie Hag were moving about the lot, bent over, apparently in search of more substantial burnables.
A two-foot-long, bulky piece of maguey stalk had been carved so that the porous tissue served as a pillow, or a neckrest.