She saw a score of happy Cats slink off with their delicious 'daily' and their tiger-like air, but no opening for her, till a big Tom of her own class sprang on a little pensioner with intent to rob.
The big snowshoes were no longer tame, but wary and alert, and the owls seemed to slink deeper into darkness and watch with more cunning.
Then out of the shadows of the dark landing the dog came slowly and warily, ready to turn and slink off if he met no welcome, but Tode was in the mood when even a strange dog was better than his own company.
But he had looked up too late; to slink away was impossible; to move was to reveal himself.
The Doctor nodded to the Judge, and the Judge rather proud that he was free and did not have to slink to his lady's bower, returned a gracious good evening, and his tall, straight figure went prancing down the street.
They lie round the house till dark, and then slink off and have a wild night's blood-spree, running down the wretched sheep and tearing their throats open; before dawn they slink back again and lie around the house as before.
Or Providence sends the pleuro, and big strong beasts slink away by themselves, and stand under trees glaring savagely till death comes.
Slink had gone To make a longer trek, where plains were dim.
But if the Baas were dead, beyond all doubt Slink could be brave.
Slink by name and Slink by nature, that's wot's the matter with him.
Slink Ainslie got letting the merry glass go round, and didn't know the right bones from the wrong.
We'll give them fellers a dusting ef they try to cross, and then we'll trail arms and slink off through the forest.
But it was a toss up as to whether the beast would suddenly give tongue or would slink still nearer and accept the proffered dainty.
When Kinsey Keene drove through The card--board mask of my life with a spear of light, What could I do but slink away, like the beast of myself Which I raised from a whelp, to a corner and growl?
And one day I heard the back door shut As I entered the front, and I saw him slink Back of the smokehouse into the lot And run across the field.
He communicated to me confidentially that he did not like to seem to slink away from the others, who had made up their minds to stop and sup; so we would drive home by moonlight, singing songs.
You can't hope to slink past a cunning, wide-awake, evil brute like he was.
And at sound of it she saw Wolf slink away from the slaughter like a scared schoolboy.
But if he would slink away like a whipped mongrel when a stranger hits him, the sooner he is beaten to death the better.
A roar of indignation went up as she related the craven conduct of the youth the boys had observed slink off.
I'll keep after you two whelps till you slink out of the service.
Nay, we willslink away in suppertime, Disguise us at my lodging, and return All in an hour.
They have brought me to this, that I can only choose between two sins: either to deliver myself up to a man whom I despise, or to slink like a thief in the night to one who in the eyes of the world can never be mine.
Soldiers who slink away on the eve of a battle are brought back dishonoured and disgraced, and are thought too despicable to be allowed to fight in the ranks of the brave.
Here they proposed to wait till, the hue-and-cry after them having ceased, and the prison doors having been opened for the removal of the other officers, they could slink forth at their leisure.
Night was coming on, and many of his party struggled to slink out and desert him, but he fired on them and left their dead bodies to add to the confusion.
Why, slink off home looking over your shoulder as you used to years ago when I had done with you—all but the laughter.
He would slink away and hide himself in the shed or barn until they had gone.
It is easy to kill the spirit of a dog by abuse and ill treatment, so that in a short time he will slink about with his tail between his legs, look guilty and self-depreciatory.
After a short but quite silent scuffle, Cornelius, who had tried to slink away at the moment of landing, resigned himself to show the way where the undergrowth was most sparse.
He would have succeeded, nevertheless, had he not been so ready to slink off as soon as you looked at him.
No breath of evil thing must assail her that night--that night, when she had glorified his lonely habitation--even though he himself must slink into a corner like a cowardly cur.
