In the twilight of evening, Simon Girty covertly drew near, and mounting on a stump from which he could be distinctly heard, demanded the surrender of the place.
The young woman, who had hastened to the door with laughing mien, became grave and covertly hostile at sight of the visitor's cassock.
He was covertly afraid of her, though they lived together in great intimacy, frankly exchanging confidences respecting their perverse views of life.
However, I saw that they whispered together, and from time to time looked covertly to see if I was still there.
Covertly he studied the faces of the young engineers at all times.
Don Luis glanced covertly at his secretary, with a look that conveyed: "If these young Gringos have all the money they want, and more, then we may find it difficult to appeal to their avarice.
Tisco's purpose in being present was to use his keen, snapping eyes in covertly studying the faces of the two Americans.
His ears had caught a sound which might have been a raccoon stirring in the brush--or a fox slipping covertly through the fallen hemlock top.
Then as the girl stood looking off into the gathering darkness her own face filled wistfully with pain and the boy, dropping to a seat on the floor of the porch, watched her covertly with sidewise glances.
No; to leave an issue to cards means to submit oneself to the unknown," said Chichikov, covertly glancing at the pack which Nozdrev had got in his hands.
What they did was perhaps a little cruel, a little Styrian, as Victoria and I used covertlyto say of such harsh measures; but how valuable a lesson on the state and fortune of kings!
In the van ran Ninus, and close beside him Menon came, each intent on mounting to the battlements, each watching covertly lest the other gain some vantage ground; thus it came about that the two contrived a separate road.
Wherefore should he scowl, this favorite of the gods, Chief Governor of Syria, a warrior beloved of men, a youth watched covertly from many a latticed screen till his careless passing caused a yearning sigh?
Here Sobieska glanced covertly at Carter to see the effect of this disclosure.
She observed him covertly as she awaited his reply.
The two young men, when they met on the road, exchangedcovertly cordial courtesies; a sort of non-committal friendship was struck up between them.
So saying, John Upham had stridden forth out of the doctor's yard, where he had held the conversation with him, with Jake Noyes and two other men covertly listening.
I felt that Pettigrew was looking at me covertly over his shoulder, and took a side glance to make sure of this.
The pocket into which I had thrust the Celebros also contained my cigar-case; and with my hand in the pocket I covertly felt for a Villar y Villar and squeezed it into the envelope.
They smoked hard and looked covertly at me, and had an idea that they were helping me.
No, it's bloom," hastened Cornelia, covertly wiping it off.
Halson glanced covertly toward him with his gay eyes.
Had but a very poor night's sleep, having a terrible toothache all night, in fact the last three or four days--a decayed back tooth.
Two beeves were brought in by our Platoon and Evans and Blake went and dug out a sweet potato patch for the twenty-fourth time.
In stating this, I shall seem, to some persons, covertly designing an affront to Oxford.
It was Kaethchen, keeping her eyes covertly on those two figures by the bridge, who observed that the girl suddenly separated herself from her companion, and disappeared into the woods by the side of the Garra.
The two visitors from the South arrived on the Monday afternoon, and there were many curious eyes covertly following the waggonette as it drove through the village.
Their most dangerous domestic enemies were some of their own traders, who covertly sold arms and ammunition to the Indians.
With such thoughts he complacently lighted a cigarette, smiled covertly at the girl, who was following him furtively, with her big dark eyes and went back through the crooked corridor to the bar.
The common assumption that Thorpe in this boastful preface was covertly addressing, under the initials 'Mr. W.
She glanced covertly at his averted, forlorn face, and her frigidity thawed a trifle as she was cognizant of an element of truth in Orlick's claims.
Throughout this impassioned discourse Belle-Ann had covertlymaneuvered inch by inch toward the cabin.
I am accused, again, of using a misleading rhetoric, and of thereby covertly introducing Christian or philosophical ideas into my account of "savages guiltless of Christian teaching.
The tall, beautiful Hungarian girl seemed not in the least embarrassed by all these curious eyes, that occasionally and covertly regarded her while pretending not to do so.
Before the overture began that evening, Brand was in his seat in the stalls; and he had scarcely sat down when he knew, rather than saw, that certain figures were coming into the box which he had been covertly watching.
Ever so quietly she had brought it, as she had thought it, all out, and it had to be as covertly that he let his appreciation expand.
Tilly was covertly and studiously regarding his profile.
She had rolled up her sleeves, and John, who was covertly watching her, saw her round white wrists and shapely fingers.
Jimmy is," returned Herb, and Jimmy covertly shook his fist at him.
He was covertly watched at meal times, and as the bracing woodland air and long hikes combined to give an added edge to his appetite, his ability began to command attention.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "covertly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: covert; private; privately; secrecy; secretly; undercover; underground
