Under the table

Usage examples of clandestine.

This wild and clandestine worship might have gone on for a long time, but inevitably, the weight of antichance fell against them.

Yelling obscenities, as at a bearbaiting or cockfight, the men spurred on the clandestine activity taking place.

She spun the globe with her finger, and the generals continued to fume, with the exception of General Caph and a younger officer who was sure he remembered the Observer from years before: They had been attached to an elite team, she as an expert in clandestine operations.

Taliban, was easier than finding and seizing the funds of a clandestine worldwide organization like al Qaeda.

Clearly the groom understood that Herm was on some sort of clandestine errand, and he could tell that the man was rather enjoying the whole event.

He does not know that his inward enjoyment consists in craftiness, defrauding, deceit, clandestine theft, and many other evils, and that this enjoyment, made up of so many enjoyments of the lusts of evil, governs each and all things of his external thought, in which he enjoys appearing just and sincere.

The only logical conclusion is that she was outsystem on some kind of clandestine military mission when Omuta bombed Garissa.

For a while, the insertion of human genes into other animals was banned by most industrialized nations, but the simplicity of the process and the crying need of tattered third world countries for hard currency inevitably resulted in a huge clandestine trade in genetically enhanced pets and altered farm animals.

The accusation was made that the nurses in many cases robbed the sick of their clothing, money, and rations, and carried on a clandestine trade with the paroled prisoners and Confederate guards without the hospital enclosure, in the clothing, effects of the sick, dying, and dead Federals.

Buried deep in the heart of the barn, with thick walls of New England traprock, and no electrical illumination, the room was a marvelously clandestine place.

Meanwhile, Saddam remained determined to halt the inspections before the inspectors uncovered his clandestine programs and stockpiles, and he was still looking to provoke a crisis with the United Nations to speed the lifting of sanctions.

As he drove, now, down Lad-broke Grove toward Holland Park, feeling self-consciously sober and clandestine, Richard remembered what he said, when the three rozzers came crunching out to greet him.

He preferred tight enclosed spaces-quick clandestine sexploits in the linen closets.

An end to clandestine sorties to the bookshop and table-tappings at my expense.

Now and again its remoteness, promising freedom from embarrassing encounters save through unlikely mischance, would bring it the custom of a clandestine couple from the West End, who would for a time make it an almost daily rendezvous, meeting nervously, sitting if possible in the most shadowy corner, the farthest from the door, and holding hands when they mistakenly assumed that nobody was looking--until the affair languished or some contretemps frightened them away.