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noun

Stealth n.

The act of stealing; theft. (Obs.) "The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw."

The thing stolen; stolen property. (Obs.) "Sluttish dens... serving to cover stealths."

The bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or action; in either a good or a bad sense. "Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." "The monarch, blinded with desire of wealth, With steel invades the brother's life by stealth." "I told him of your stealth unto this wood."

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"Stealth" Quotes from Famous Books

... they went is set in many books. But the Pestilence fed on the light that shines in the eyes of men, which never appeased his hunger; chiller and damper he grew, and the heat from his eyes increased when night by night he galloped through the city, going by stealth no more. ...

— Time and the Gods • Lord Dunsany [Edward J. M. D. Plunkett]

... earth And to deal in the dealings of men, and garner the harvest of worth. But tell me, thou Master of Masters, where lieth this measureless wealth; Is it guarded by swords of the earl-folk, or kept by cunning and stealth? Is it over the main sea's darkness, or beyond the mountain wall? Or e'en in these peaceful acres anigh to the hands ...

— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs • William Morris

... she would inscribe "good" or "very good," and I showed it to my parents every evening. Until now I have neglected to say that it had been one of her amusements to teach me to play upon the piano; she taught me by stealth so that I might surprise my parents by playing for them, upon the occasion of a family celebration, the "Little Swiss Boy" or the "Rocks of St. Malo." The result was she had been requested to go on with lessons that had had such a favorable beginning, and my musical education was entrusted ...

— The Story of a Child • Pierre Loti

... and his daughter walked away the shyness of the young men returned upon them in a heavy backwash. They were so whelmed by it that they did not even speak to one another. But both glanced with cautious stealth at the receding backs, the doctor in front, his daughter walking daintily on the edge of grass by the roadside, holding her skirts ...

— The Emigrant Trail • Geraldine Bonner

... Heracles went away into the woods, bow in hand, to hunt wild deer; and Hylas the fair boy slipt away after him, and followed him by stealth, until he lost himself among the glens, and sat down weary to rest himself by the side of a lake; and there the water nymphs came up to look at him, and loved him, and carried him down under the lake to be their ...

— Myths That Every Child Should Know - A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People • Various

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