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surreptitious
1. He could get a surreptitious mind reading out of him if he needed to
2. The surreptitious idling around the Chester railway station or
3. After a short pause and a surreptitious glance at the other Elders, Drac nodded his consent
4. As she was hurried along the forest path, Soffen kept silent, aware of the surreptitious glances she was receiving from one of her guards
5. They couldn’t help but share surreptitious smiles throughout the funeral proceedings
6. As she turned around to start walking back towards her house, she froze where she lay when a mailed hand seemed to stretch from a shadowy crevice, some chasm in a wall she hadn’t noticed in her dimly lit surroundings: it was a surreptitious figure that seemed well-disposed towards her, or else she would be already lying in a pool of her own blood for what little coin she carried in her tiny purse
7. His thoughts were interrupted by the sly, surreptitious voice of the Patriarch, which broke the silence of the chamber sounding as if it resonated with the columns and the rock walls, both adding to its effect:
8. I learned about it from my surreptitious ventures into his personal study
9. Dan Reese kept drawing surreptitious pictures of girls, with pig or rooster heads, on his slate and holding them up for all to see
10. ’Other than giving surreptitious glances in places I’m not entitled to look,’ he
11. With a surreptitious scan of the streets to confirm no one was watching, Robert slipped quickly into the car
12. The Minister agreed to an immediate, unofficial, secret search of the Containers and arranged for Customs and Excise to send a Special Agent to assist Rory and bring along the Customs sealing-apparatus to conceal this surreptitious search, which was to be done after office hours in the evening
13. It always begins with the teacher telling the apprentice what they are going to do, and at every stage, but they tell them in a surreptitious way
14. Delmage had had it all to himself around the midnight hour as he made his surreptitious journey back to the farm
15. and surreptitious sip of tea while you studiously examined the financial section of
16. ” Steve tossed it a Save the Rich, Kill Money button he made from some of the art-waste at the last generally assembled surreptitious occuvent
17. Jen’s surreptitious glance toward Than confirmed Therese’s suspicion that Jen was interested in him, and this explained Jen’s sudden eagerness to work more
18. She took a surreptitious mouthful of air and released it slowly, busying herself with the mess of papers on her desk
19. Daphne couldn’t resist taking the opportunity to steal surreptitious glances at Cam, who continued to give Bridget his full attention
20. Margot had been surreptitious, keeping up appearances for neighbours and co-workers
21. In between dances I kept stealing surreptitious glances at Zorro, but he never seemed to look in my direction
22. I’d heard his name, of course, but when I’d tried to do a little surreptitious Googling of him, I couldn’t find anything about him
23. He didn’t look at all like a burglar caught in the act — there was nothing surreptitious or guilty in his manner
24. Oak didn't know his name and he noticed that Denver kept away from him as much as possible even though the boy would give him surreptitious glances to try and get his attention
25. Oak would have to keep up the pretence in front of Detroit by joining heads with Blackthorn and casting surreptitious glances around him as he whispered their imaginary plot of escape
26. I wouldn't be at all surprised if some gold-less villages take surreptitious steps to ensure that some is finally found in their soil
27. intimidating, so all I had managed to date was surreptitious glances
28. The patches are designed with security features to detect surreptitious removal and re-attachment
29. I had already reconciled myself to the surreptitious removal of the anonymous bird sculpture that I had grown attached to
30. As we talked I found myself sneaking surreptitious glances at him, at the way his hands held his mug, at his unexpected smiles, which caused three perfect lines to span out from the corner of each eye as if they had been drawn with fine-point precision
31. Amid some surreptitious scanning of notes and clearing of throats, Marc stepped into the middle
32. Clyntahn frowned, but he also seemed to settle just a bit, and Rayno drew a deep, surreptitious breath of relief
33. “What a fool!” thought Scarlett bitterly, casting a surreptitious glance about her in the hope of being rescued from the conversation
34. But it was the part she did not read that tormented Scarlett, that drove Melanie was always generous with the letters, reading parts of them aloud to Aunt her to surreptitious reading of her sister-in-law’s mail
35. He had been drinking very hard for a week - only I knew how hard - and drinking in a nervous, surreptitious way, totally unlike his old habit
36. But, after all, he was as stimulating as—well, as a surreptitious glass of brandy!
37. Tess's feminine hope—shall we confess it?—had been so obstinately recuperative as to revive in her surreptitious visions of a domiciliary intimacy continued long enough to break down his coldness even against his judgement
38. While the percolator burbled intestinally, Mercer took some creamer packets from the fridge and got down the sugar box and did a surreptitious roach check
39. time of his apprenticeship at fifteen, and was likely to yield a knowledge of no surreptitious kind
40. But, he hoped it would operate on the House to induce them to consider the propriety of providing some mode of hereafter distinguishing between legal, and illegal or surreptitious election
41. And I have been credibly informed that all the concessions or grants of land, made in West Florida, under the authority of Spain, run in the name of the government of Louisiana, You cannot have forgotten that about the period when we took possession of New Orleans, under the Treaty of Cession from France, the whole country rung with the nefarious speculations which were alleged to be practising in that city, with the connivance, if not actual participation of the Spanish authorities, by the procurement of surreptitious grants of land, particularly in the district of Feliciana
42. President, when we inflict death for the support of institutions Congress had no right to create, and for the violation of laws the constitution prohibits that body from enacting—(and under the denomination of each of the political sects into which this country is divided, agreeable to the principles now contended for by gentlemen, such laws have been passed)—are not the Executive which sanctions, the Congress which passed, and the whole body of our Judiciary, both of the General and State Governments, which enforces such unconstitutional measures, and under their surreptitious authority inflicts death upon our citizens, worse than usurpers? Are they not murderers? Yes, Mr
43. It might at least have been expected, that an enlightened nation, if less urged by moral obligations, or invited by friendly dispositions on the part of the United States, would have found, in its true interest alone, a sufficient motive to respect their rights and their tranquillity on the high seas; that an enlarged policy would have favored that free and general circulation of commerce in which the British nation is at all times interested, and which, in times of war, is the best alleviation of its calamities to herself, as well as to other belligerents; and, more especially, that the British Cabinet would not, for the sake of a precarious and surreptitious intercourse with hostile markets, have persevered in a course of measures which necessarily put at hazard the invaluable market of a great and growing country, disposed to cultivate the mutual advantages of an active commerce