Faithless, base man, could you then steal out of town, and lurk like a robber about my house for such brutish purposes?
Still when the deep Is smoothest, lo, the deadly fangs and coils Lurk near, to smite with death.
He knew every extremity of hunger, thirst, and cold; and perhaps his most miserable experience was to lurk for many hours, devoured by midges, under a wet rock.
We still dwell in the Valley of the Shadow, lurk in its desolate places, peering from brambles and thickets at its mad, malign inhabitants.
Contrary to my expectation this gave me no relief; the light seemed rather an added danger, for I reflected that it would shine out under the door, disclosing my presence to whatever evil thing might lurk outside.
These troops disgust and confound the French by making every hut and house a fortress: like the clansmen of Roderick Dhu, they lurk behind the bushes, animating each tree or shrub with a preposterous gun charged with a badly-moulded bullet.
The harbor of Bona, though broad and beautiful, is somewhat dangerous, concealing numbers of rocks which lurk at about the surface of the water.
The last, perhaps the greatest, of the prominent sources of discord and disaster supposed to lurk in our political condition was the institution of domestic slavery.
We cannot, we will not, succumb to the dark impulses that lurk in the far regions of the soul everywhere.
How seeds of evil may lurkin the fairest character!
The whole district is seamed with ravines, and these are honeycombed with great caverns, where dangerous outcasts still lurk and defy capture.
Many already have fled to the forest, and lurk on its outskirts, Waiting with anxious hearts the dubious fate of tomorrow.
To find him draw your Hounds about Groves, Thickets, and Bushes near Villages; Pigs and Poultry inviting him to such Places to Lurk in.
Where obscurely they may lurk under the Shelter of Hedges, Hills, Bushes, &c.
He delights in a Point of a River where the Water comes Whirling like the Eddy, to catch what the Stream brings down, especially if he has the shade of a Tree: He hugely delights to lurk under some hollow Bank or Stone; seldom among Weeds.
The greatest Eels lurk under stones, or Roots; the smallest ones are found in all sorts of Rivers or Soils: The Carp is for the deepest stillest part of Pond or River, and so is the Tench, and both delight in green Weeds.
Yet in his words there seemed to lurk a certain lack of conviction.
A cult of bird-gods may lurk behind the divine name Bran, "raven," and the reference to the magic birds of Rhiannon in the Triads.
Some of the gods may lurkbehind the personages of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Britonum and of the Arthurian cycle, though here great caution is required.
Perhaps some myth describing this combat may lurk behind the story of the battle of Mag-tured fought on Samhain between the Tuatha Dé Danann and the Fomorians.
Govannon, his uncle, slew him, an incident interpreted as the defeat of darkness, which "hies away to lurk in the sea.
Through its brute strength flashed the keenest sense of alert intelligence--an intelligence which seemed to lurk behind the big, shaggy eyebrows as if about to spring on its victim.
And yet, when he recalled how little he really knew of her past life, what dark secrets might lurk in the story of the years she had spent under the same roof with these people, he grew sick at the thought.
That's no unlikely place for her to lurk in, as you said this morning, good fellow.
Martin, therefore, saw no alternative but for her to lurk about in such hiding-places as her faithful vassals could afford her, until the search should blow over, and the vigilance of her uncle and cousin relax.
There seems to lurk in the masculine breast an unmanly fear lest the development of the female mind should be fatal to the superiority of the male mind.
Each should stand on its own mountain-height and call to the other through clear, bright air; but such sufferance only draws both down into the damp, unwholesome valley-lands where lurk fever and pestilence.
Zaniloff permitted the merest suspicion of a smile to lurk about the corners of a sensual mouth.
It didn't like the dark; nothing could persuade it that danger did not lurkin blackness.
Never was the idea of "Martin" absent from his mind: it might lurk concealed behind the excitement of trailing after the sleigh, or of watching the skaters on the ice, but at all times it was ready to enfilade him.
She did not want to talk any more about it, and, if below her silence there should lurk a fear, she preferred to cover it up, not examine it.
All that Martin said sounded divinely comforting and uplifting, but did there not lurkin it the whole gospel of Satanism?
I suppose, when one really thinks of it, at the bottom of every one of us lurk two primary emotions--vanity and fear.
Dostoievsky has, indeed, a demonic power of revelation in regard to that twilight of the human brain, where lurk the phantoms of unsatisfied desire, and where unspoken lusts stretch forth pitiable hands.
Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind whichlurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.
For the present I am content to urge that it combines freedom with justice, and avoids those dangers to the community which we have found to lurk both in the proposals of the Anarchists and in those of orthodox Socialists.
These gospels cannot be read too carefully; difficulties lurk behind every word.
The greatest Eels lurk under Stones, or Roots; the smallest ones are found in all sorts of Rivers or Soyls: The Carp is for the deepest stillest part of Pond or River, and so is the Tench, and both delight in green Weeds.
He delights in a Point of a River where the Water comes Whirling like the Eddy, to catch what the Stream brings down, especially if he has the Shade of a Tree: He hugely delights to lurk under some hollow Bank or Stone; seldom among Weeds.
To find him draw your Hounds about Groves, Thickets, and Bushes near Villages; Pigs and Poultrey inviting him to such Places to Lurk in.
But more probably they represented the hosts of demons and ghosts who were believed to lurk about the town and to massacre people under the form of sickness and disease.
Thus the gods fill not only the air and the sea, they also walk on earth, on all paths; they lurk under the trees, they terrify the lonely wayfarer, they disquiet and plague even the sleeper.
I used to stroll about the squire's park, and would lurk near the house to catch glimpses of this little damsel at the windows, or playing about the lawns, or walking out with her governess.
