What is "stealthy"

Usage examples of "stealthy".

Intent on the cabin, the black man did not hear that stealthy approach.

All about us I could hear the stealthy movement of great, padded feet, and now and then the wicked gleam of green eyes upon us.

Without seeming to, the Lizard was watching Gryf closely, padding by every so often in his stealthy, silent way, his close-set eyes heavy-lidded, the direction of his gaze impossible to determine.

Those sounds were stealthy, and they evidently pleased Jarrock for his sallow lips widened in a smile that added to his satanic expression.

Even when Lockram lay on his own pallet but a few feet away sleeping, the Ataraxians were stealthy and silent.

The great osprey seldom crosses the bay without a challenge from its stealthy foe, the white-belly.

Stealthy horror and disease lurk within the weather-blackened, moss-crusted, and elm-shadowed walls of the archaic dwelling so vividly displayed, and we grasp the brooding malignity of the place when we read that its builder -- old Colonel Pyncheon -- snatched the land with peculiar ruthlessness from its original settler, Matthew Maule, whom he condemned to the gallows as a wizard in the year of the panic.

And yet, shyer than gravitation, less to be counted on than the fluxions of sun-dials, stealthier than the growth of a forest, are the footsteps of Christianity amongst the political workings of man.

Only a day or two before an armoured motor-car, with German officers disguised in French uniforms, paid us a stealthy visit, and, after shooting three gendarmes in reply to their insistent challenge, ended its temerarious career one dark night by rushing headlong over the broken arch of a bridge into the chasm beneath.

Ralabun also vexed Tolivar by stopping again and again to survey the forest, swiveling his long upstanding ears, sniffing the rainy air, and cautioning against the stealthy approach of ravening beasts that never actually appeared.

This man, to sign a stealthy scroll with Russia That shuts us off from all indemnities, While swearing faithful friendship with our King, And, still professing our safe wardenry, To fatten other kingdoms at our cost, Insults us grossly, and makes Europe clang With echoes of our wrongs.

Anne became aware of a faint rustling near her, of the drawing of curtains, a shadow projected upon the balustrade, and a stealthy step upon the adjoining balcony.

Like her, he feels the atmosphere about him too acutely: the stealthiest shifts in wind direction, ozone level, barometric pressure.

The dry, coppery leaves beneath the trees were full of stealthy rustlings and creepings as small creatures fed on beechmast, and the oinking of pigs could be heard in the distance, where someone was exercising his ancient right to pannage for his animals.

There were legends of ancient parthenogenetic clans whose daughters brought status and wealth to the hive by hiring out as stealthy assassins.