"Furtiveness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and they went about with silent efficiency, performing their services to the dead and setting the house in order; but they said very little to Deborah. When she came out of her room they eyed her with a certain grim furtiveness, and they never said a word to ...
— Pembroke - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... telephone with a charming furtiveness—you could see she was playing they had just been found behind the piano together in a game of hide-and-seek. The doll was ...
— Young People's Pride • Stephen Vincent Benet
... (Cambridge, 1951), p.26. The man who published the Epistle, however, says confidently, "this admirable Poem, very generally ascribed at the time to Mr. Mason, was written by John Baynes, Esq. and handed to the press by his intimate friend John Watson Reed, Esq." Mason's furtiveness may, of course, have fooled even the publisher. The periodicals of the day bear out at least Nichols' word (contrary to what Gaskell says) that the work was immediately received as Mason's. Besides this pamphlet and Malone's, Nichols printed Tyrwhitt's Vindication ...
— Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782) • Edmond Malone
... her with eyes that held an odd mixture of furtiveness and admiration, his fingers—plump, indolent-looking ...
— St. Martin's Summer • Rafael Sabatini
... long flights the girl unfastened her veil. One could then clearly see the beauty of her eyes, but there was in them a certain furtiveness that came near to marring the effects. It was a peculiar fixture of gaze, brought from the street, as of one who there saw a succession of passing dangers with menaces aligned at ...
— Men, Women, and Boats • Stephen Crane
... the open doorway, and somehow his original furtiveness had returned to him. Here he paused as the voice of the twins reached and held him. They were still playing in the sun, banking up the sand and stones in their futile attempt at castle building. He breathed hard, as though summoning ...
— The Twins of Suffering Creek • Ridgwell Cullum |
