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on the sly
1. “It’s been a real mess of a morning, added to the fact Victoria’s been seeing a convict on the sly
2. I nevertheless spoke with Bolles on the sly and learned that among the other investigations he was doing, besides corruption at OUR commission, he had uncovered that the races at the Black Canyon greyhound track were being fixed by none other than Sam Jenkins, the slime ball brother of my former dope running boss
3. I think Edith might have been feeding it on the sly
4. 'Isn’t G having his own fill, well not on the sly? What an army of pimps-on-the-prowl to catch fresh chicks for him? Why, he owes all that to me! Same way as I owe V to G
5. Down but not beaten I played the game and moved in to a house in Wollongong as my parole address and got a house in Canberra on the sly that I used as a base there
6. ‘You don’t think that one of the eight has been telling us porkies, chief; and actually did him in on the sly?’
7. Their home state certainly doesn’t lead the United States in doing things on the sly with hands held open for payola
8. 'You're right' he said 'I shouldn't be here on the sly like this'
9. It soon dawned on her that they joined the group of waiting commuters only to ogle her on the sly
10. ‘What about going to the guest-house on the sly,’ said Sandhya to Roopa
11. Won’t a push with praise and prod with a gift bring the babes to bare their boobs? And aren’t women blessed with a weakness for successful men? How money bestows status upon men and brings power over women! Won’t that enable the well-heeled to pick up their fancied women, that too at the drop of a hat! Well, haven’t I tasted the amorous flavors of countless randies in assorted ways? It’s as though every lass is ready for a lay, of course, on the sly
12. Of course, they all start on the sly only to set the trend in the end
13. After all, it’s for love that we both erred on the sly
14. It was just bizarre that Crass rented them out instead of just giving them to him on the sly
15. They bullied and good naturedly manhandled the girls, petted them and fondle their breasts and behinds on the sly, getting slaps and screams for their efforts and always a good laugh
16. slipping out on the sly here and there
17. mothers, who go wrong on the sly) and then
18. "What did you go out for? What was the object of it? And why on the sly? Were you in your senses when you did it? Now that all danger is over I can speak plainly
19. noticed'--what does it amount to? So I gave it to her on the sly on purpose? What for? With what object? What have I to do with this
20. This refusal to take any refreshment seemed to him the most odious hypocrisy; all priests tippled on the sly, and were trying to bring back the days of the tithe
21. At these words, Sancho, without uttering one in reply, got up from his chair, and with noiseless steps, with his body bent and his finger on his lips, went all round the room lifting up the hangings; and this done, he came back to his seat and said, "Now, senora, that I have seen that there is no one except the bystanders listening to us on the sly, I will answer what you have asked me, and all you may ask me, without fear or dread
22. If he went off anywhere--I knew one such woman, she couldn't restrain herself, but would jump up at night and run off on the sly to find out where he was, whether he was with some other woman
23. Mushy like, tell by their eye, on the sly
24. Some of the old women was knitting, and some of the young folks was courting on the sly
25. So, says I, s'pose somebody has hogged that bag on the sly?—now how do I know whether to write to Mary Jane or not? S'pose she dug him up and didn't find nothing, what would she think of me? Blame it, I says, I might get hunted up and jailed; I'd better lay low and keep dark, and not write at all; the thing's awful mixed now; trying to better it, I've worsened it a hundred times, and I wish to goodness I'd just let it alone, dad fetch the whole business!
26. ones she could find at the bottom of the basket anything at all to get into a mans bedroom with her old maids voice trying to imagine he was dying on account of her to never see thy face again though he looked more like a man with his beard a bit grown in the bed father was the same besides I hate bandaging and dosing when he cut his toe with the razor paring his corns afraid hed get bloodpoisoning but if it was a thing I was sick then wed see what attention only of course the woman hides it not to give all the trouble they do yes he came somewhere Im sure by his appetite anyway love its not or hed be off his feed thinking of her so either it was one of those night women if it was down there he was really and the hotel story he made up a pack of lies to hide it planning it Hynes kept me who did I meet ah yes I met do you remember Menton and who else who let me see that big babbyface I saw him and he not long married flirting with a young girl at Pooles Myriorama and turned my back on him when he slinked out looking quite conscious what harm but he had the impudence to make up to me one time well done to him mouth almighty and his boiled eyes of all the big stupoes I ever met and thats called a solicitor only for I hate having a long wrangle in bed or else if its not that its some little bitch or other he got in with somewhere or picked up on the sly if they only knew him as well as I do yes because the day before yesterday he was scribbling something a letter when I came into the front room to show him Dignams death in the paper as if something told me and he covered it up with the blottingpaper pretending to be thinking about business so very probably that was it to somebody who thinks she has a softy in him because all men get a bit like that at his age especially getting on to forty he is now so as to wheedle any money she can out of him no fool like an old fool and then the usual kissing my bottom was to hide it not that I care two straws now who he does it with or knew before that way though Id like to find out so long as I dont have the two of them under my nose all the time like that slut that Mary we had in Ontario terrace padding out her false bottom to excite him bad enough to get the smell of those painted women off him once or twice I had a suspicion by getting him to come near me when I found the long hair on his coat without that one when I went into the kitchen pretending he was drinking water 1 woman is not enough for them it was all his fault of course ruining servants then proposing that she could eat at our table on Christmas day if you please O no thank you not in my house stealing my potatoes and the oysters 2/6 per doz going out to see her aunt if you please common robbery so it was but I was sure he had something on with that one it takes me to find out a thing like that he said you have no proof it was her proof O yes her aunt was very fond of oysters but I told her what I thought of her suggesting me to go out to be alone with her I wouldnt lower myself to spy on them the garters I found in her room the Friday she was out that was enough for me a little bit too much her face swelled up on her with temper when I gave her her weeks notice I saw to that better do without them altogether do out the rooms myself quicker only for the damn cooking and throwing out the dirt I gave it to him anyhow either she or me leaves the house I couldnt even touch him if I thought he was with a dirty barefaced liar and sloven like that one denying it up to my face and singing about the place in the W C too because she knew she was too well off yes because he couldnt possibly do without it that long so he must do it somewhere and the last time he came on my bottom when was it the night
27. I think he slipped in and ate one of them on the sly
28. He'll probably have little hiding places about the garden where he keeps a bottle and takes a swig now and then on the sly
29. His despair at failing in a Scripture examination, his borrowing money from Gavril to pay a sleigh driver, his kissing Sonya on the sly- he now recalled all this as childishness he had left immeasurably behind
30. Eponine and Azelma had passed hours in contemplating it, and Cosette herself had ventured to cast a glance at it, on the sly, it is true
31. In spite of the extreme surveillance and the severity of the punishments administered, when the wind had shaken the trees, they sometimes succeeded in picking up a green apple or a spoiled apricot or an inhabited pear on the sly
32. While he was growing up in this fashion, the colonel slipped away every two or three months, came to Paris on the sly, like a criminal breaking his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when Aunt Gillenormand led Marius to the mass
33. He launched a furious glance on the sly at Marius, which was instantly extinguished
34. Mother said it was a horrid greasy sort of place, so I ate there on the sly
35. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as he was only a few years older than me; but I didn’t want to do anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on the very morning of the wedding
36. ‘What did you go out for? What was the object of it? And why on the sly?
37. As the bread given me for dinner was much less than two and a half pounds I bought bread on the sly
38. " Ah, what a woman!" said mother, shaking her head, very much pleased with the news and Andrey Petrovitch's accoimt of it, though she looked uneasily on the sly at Liza
39. sten, brother," Liza whispered to me on the sly ; " they are expecting him
40. Muslin curtains hung down from a golden ring overhead, in fact it was all just as it should be, and the guests who had all visited the bridal chamber had admired the decoration of it; though the bride could not endure Pseldonimov, she had several times in the course of the evening run in to have a look at it on the sly
41. While I've been playing the fool, I have been listening and having a look on the sly; and now I want to give you the last act of the performance
42. All this he did on the sly, with the greatest secrecy
43. For sin is sweet; all abuse it, but all men live in it, only others do it on the sly, and I openly
44. He will stab you in a minute, on the sly, as he did Krassotkin
45. What's the use of what I think? His honor will come simply because he is in a rage or suspicious on account of my illness perhaps, and he'll dash in, as he did yesterday through impatience to search the rooms, to see whether she hasn't escaped him on the sly
46. I took it off the table on the sly, and held it tight in my hand
47. The prosecutor looked significantly at the investigating lawyer, and had time to wink at him on the sly
48. Apparently he was forbidden by his parents to associate with Krassotkin, who was well known to be a desperately naughty boy, so Smurov was obviously slipping out on the sly
49. “God knows I trust Lise to you with all my heart, and it's no matter her sending for you on the sly, without telling her mother
50. ” On it lay Fyodor Pavlovitch's white silk dressing-gown, stained with blood; the fatal brass pestle with which the supposed murder had been committed; Mitya's shirt, with a blood-stained sleeve; his coat, stained with blood in patches over the pocket in which he had put his handkerchief; the handkerchief itself, stiff with blood and by now quite yellow; the pistol loaded by Mitya at Perhotin's with a view to suicide, and taken from him on the sly at Mokroe by Trifon Borissovitch; the envelope in which the three thousand roubles had been put ready for Grushenka, the narrow pink ribbon with which it had been tied, and many other articles I don't remember