The agent smiled discreetly when he saw them, and may have wished, poor fellow, that he, too, was young again and shamelessly in love.
No one was visible; no one ever was visible at a window at Norton Park; but discreetly hidden by the lace curtains, half a dozen be-capped heads might even now be nodding in her direction.
Fences are raised by an arrangement of lattice- work on the top of boards; shrubs are planted thickly inside the hedges; even the railings of the gates are backed by discreetly concealing boards.
Altogether about half a kilometre of gallery had to be made to the mine chamber, and meanwhile the explosive was coming up load by load and resting first here, then there, in discreetly chosen positions.
We can peep discreetly because just at present our guns are putting shrapnel over the enemy at the rate of about three shells a minute, the puffs follow each other up and down the line, and no Germans are staring out to see us.
Peter presently reappeared in Riverton, discreetly clad in his customary clothes, the habits of thrift being yet so firmly ingrained in him that he couldn't easily wear his best clothes on a week-day.
Denis peeped at them discreetly from the window of the morning-room.
But his coat was very well cut and, discreetly padded, made him seem robuster than he actually was.
He picked up the book and slipped off the elastic band that kept it discreetly closed.
The two volumes, the slender and the stout, were forwarded to Rickman in the same parcel, and Jewdwine in a note discreetly worded threw himself and the poems of his influential friend on Rickman's mercy.
Edging his chair by slow degrees, he turned discreetly round.
Behind this I dismounted and fastened my horse to a fence, discreetly advanced as dismounted cavalry to reconnoiter, and, if possible, learn what all the fuss over here was about.
The character of the decoy messages, and the manner of conveying them, the General had discreetly kept from me until the time for action.
It was the Lieutenant who was acting as the silent partner of the Captain, who kept the closer eye upon me, while, at the same time, he discreetly kept himself aloof from us and did not appear at all as one of the party.
Phebe, when the mistake was rectified, and she stood on her own steps looking down at her escort, who had discreetly released her before a pull at the bell caused five heads to pop up at five different windows.
Just at that most interesting moment, they became aware of an arrival in the front drawing-room, whither Aunt Plenty had discreetly retired.
She discreetly renovated the old "homestead," as she called it, and arranged to reside in eastern Massachusetts through the summer season.
Truesdale came for the first sitting in a costumediscreetly picturesque, and his aunt frisked through all the preliminary preparations in a state of great glee.
An instrument willing to lend itself to this feat of juggling was needed, and was found in a pushing young fellow who left a rival house to playdiscreetly and shrewdly the rôle of figure-head that the juncture required.
Americans maydiscreetly remember that they themselves were once sneeringly described as ``a nation of shopkeepers who wouldn't and couldn't fight.
From this view-point at least we may discreetly remember that ``There is so much bad in the best of us, And so much good in the worst of us, That it hardly behoves any of us To talk about the rest of us.
On the organisation of the Banquet of Famine, he had discreetly refrained from testifying the smallest desire to save himself from the catastrophe in which the senator and his friends had determined to involve themselves.
The waiter discreetly presumed that they would ring if he was required; he left them with a faintly un-waiter-like grin.
Yet, though Belle Bellew might box his ears later in a romp, she must bob to him now discreetly as she greeted him.
Poets lose half the Praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Mrs Whitefield looks bewildered; but Ann draws her discreetly away; and they disappear round the corner towards the house.
Ann and Octavius, lingering near the gate, exchange an astonished glance, and discreetly withdraw up the steps to the garden, where they can enjoy the disturbance without intruding.
Towards two o'clock, he resisted Calixte Heliot whodiscreetly tried to draw him away.
At a marriage which he was obliged to attend, he met a young girl who fell in love with him, discreetly and with reserve, but seriously.
This well-known member of the trade, who discreetly refrains from signing his name, writes to the Athenæum in answer to Mr. E.
The manager discreetly replied that he would consult the principal proprietor.
They glanced at the newcomer; then the cat discreetly went indoors and the dog rumbled in his chest, but discreetly he walked away, very stiffly, and looked at the distant landscape, with his hair on his back still bristling.
Towards the alcove Ailie--Dan discreetly moving elsewhere--boldly The Macintosh, whose ballooning silk brocade put even the haughtiest of the other dames in shadow.
Under ordinary circumstances, an ordinary fox would have discreetly ignored both pursued and pursuer, avoiding a dangerous quarrel; for the predatory wild folks, as a rule, do not like to fight unnecessarily.
Brother Dudley was discreetly left a little in the dark about it, because nothing in the world would ever have persuaded him that a girl of Hal's age could run promiscuously about London unmolested.
Hal made a little grimace at him behind it, and retired discreetly to prepare for her daily sojourn in the City.
They failed to discreetly lower their voices, and thus they had a listener on whose attention they had not counted.
So impressed was he with this idea that he discreetly held his tongue.
Chiara retired discreetly at a call from another part, and in a few minutes reappeared.
Donna Maria allowed smoking in her room after dinner; but the men discreetly retired to a far corner, so, as they said, not to fumigate the two ladies.
Behind were 500 burghers, with Snyman, in support; but when they heard the firing they discreetly waited to see the result, and through their discretion Eloff eventually lost what he had gained.
The Boers retreated, and gathered themselves together to guard the road to the town; but General French made a rapid detour, which they saw might outflank them, whereupon they discreetly withdrew.
These soon swam ashore--discreetly landing on the further side of the river.
As the boys and Hutchings, followed discreetly by Mrs. Carter and Mr. Hand, emerged from the back door, a glimmer of flame appeared behind the stable.
When the next opening in the woods was reached, he went discreetly round it.
Two black bears, despite terrible threats from the grizzly, claimed all the fish that came within reach of the shore, but discreetly kept out of the pond.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "discreetly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
