Sly and secretive

Usage examples of furtive.

He was well-known, at least by sight, to all night-living Baltimoreans, and to those who frequented race-track, gambling-house, and the furtive cockpits that now and then materialise for a few brief hours in the forty miles of country that lie between Baltimore and Washington.

In height he was short for a Belgic Gaul, sharp-featured of face, and oddly furtive in his manner.

The committeemen, Marvin felt, had lost all interest in him, for their glances at him were few and furtive.

The Jewess still danced upon the roof to the watching Zouaves, but now there was something mystic in her tiny movements which no longer roused in Domini any furtive desire not really inherent in her nature.

She saw them with her overeyes, glowing moon-on-dragon-scale silver, that peculiar sheen of pure metal with the overlay of draconic iridescence, a furtive rainbow that was all colors and none at all.

All he could see were short, faint, horizontal streaks of bluish light, but he could smell an overpowering foetor and hear a curious jumble of soft, furtive sounds above him.

Their furtive eyes raked the houses, but they did not pause in the long loping trot with which of a moonlight night they had often slunk through the Lochaber passes.

Secha, looking around with all the furtive nonsensicalness of a child playing at hide-and-seek.

Later still being frightened by a light footstep, furtive and sinister, until recalling that the crisp, not to say heavy step of officialdom would be more sinister.

Furtive groups clambered to their roofs and sang hymns to the Wingsister, praying for flight.

Mildewing old houses tottered overhead, their steeply slanting roofs like capes slung over narrow shoulders, making them furtive.

Rachel took a furtive step, then another, looking at something amid the broken, dropping-spattered branches of serviceberry, until, with a mournful sigh, she sank to her haunches, her head hanging.

The train was practically empty at this time of night, and Malachi was alone in the car except for six teenaged girls, who burst into fits of giggling interspersed with furtive looks in his direction.

Furtive movements betrayed the fact that some of the Unis were making their escape over the ridge.

Furtive and fascinated, her eyes remained fixed on Bianca, while her hand moved, mechanically ticking the paragraphs.