Alert and contemptuous gray wolves gave him a passing glance, but the coyotes, slinking a little farther off, watched him with more interest.
Another figure crept from the protection of Hawley's corral like a slinking coyote, gun in hand and nervously alert.
Fitful showers of rain, odorous and heavy, but unsatisfying, fell, and birds and beasts of the woodlands came slinking in to our streets and courtyards.
Ever since the sky first darkened our own animals had become strangely familiar, and now here were these wild things of the woods slinking in for companionship, sagheaded and frightened.
Instead, the slinking evil that ruled him met half-way the bolder evil in that glance, from whose sinister suggestion the veil was for a moment lifted, recognizing a tacit kinship.
In Ipswich we may catch a glimpse of a mulberry-coloured livery slinking by St. Clement’s Church, and guess therefrom that one Alfred Jingle is here at his old game of laying siege to the hearts of susceptible females with money.
As he went slinking along the sidewalk past Mary Cochran his sharp little eyes, burning with hatred, looked up at her.
Afterwards, the foreman, decided, that was the reason he did it, that and the fact that the dark slinking figure of a man darted out of an alleyway and then darted back again.
A man came slinking out of an alleyway and followed me and my wife home.
She gave no heed to the slinking forms that dogged her steps.
Then they began to creep away, slinking in furtive apprehension; then finally they broke into a headlong flight, racing for home in a perfect madness of terror.
Ursula watched him in his crawling, slinking progress down the room.
She felt that she ought always to be in a state of slinking disgrace, if she fulfilled what was expected of her.
At school, or in the world, she was usually at fault, she felt usually that she ought to be slinking in disgrace.
And, as it turned out, he showed considerable wisdom in repressing his boyish desire to fire, for just then there was a movement in an entirely different direction, and he had a glimpse of a gray beast slinking past a small opening.
With his companions he slowly crept forward through the underbrush, slinking along like a tiger about to spring upon its prey.
From without the audience heard a murmur of protest cut short by a firm, imperious command; then the officer came slinking back into the hall.
Now a murderer's liver is a cousin to his slinking mind, and these who came were murderers.
He lashed out with his heels at a slinking shadow that ducked and bobbed about him--and then about Conan other shadows moved: gray, furtive shadows that closed in on all sides.
There was a sinister suggestion of furtiveness about thatslinking figure, entering the alley-door in darkness; a priest, perhaps, returning from some dark errand.
But now, curiously, he felt his mouth growing all at once arid and dry with the oldslinking thirst.
Taken aback at this unlooked-for demand, the Apaches scattered, like slinking wolves, into the cave.
This ceremony was soon over, and, as the bright light of the guiding star began to twinkle in the East, the soldiers and slinking redskins softly began the descent to the cave of the Apaches.
To the rear, from around the last bend and plainly into view, on the very trail they had just covered, trotted a furry, slinking form.
They were all about him and the fire, in a narrow circle, and he could see them plainly in the firelight lying down, sitting up, crawling forward on their bellies, or slinking back and forth.
For the first few hours he was content with slinking around and watching them from a safe distance.
He no longer sprawled and straddled, and already he was developing the gait of his mother, slinking and furtive, apparently without exertion, yet sliding along with a swiftness that was as deceptive as it was imperceptible.
It drove Miki, slinking like a whipped cur, down into the creek bottom.
And then he felt Miki's weight slinking down to the floor, and under his hands the dog's muscles grew limp and saggy.
When Le Beau called again The Killer was slinking away, dripping blood as he went--and this was the last that Le Beau saw of him.
Slinking up out of the low growth of bush at the far edge of the dip lie saw Maheegun, the renegade she-wolf.
He seemed to draw slowly into himself, slinking backward.
It touched for an instant the slinking figure, and a sudden gleam from polished steel flashed forth.
Could they have seen the slinking form keeping so warily out of sight and have read the writing upon the secret chamber of his heart they would not have felt so secure as they moved steadily onward.
The sun rose slowly above the tree tops, and at its appearing the slinking Indians crouched back among the trees, like tigers lying in wait for their prey.
He recalled that scene out in the hills, and saw again Pete's form slinking through the night with the bared knife in his hand.
Hallo, you two damned slinkingdog thieves," he sung out, as the crowd parted to make way for him.
Fear sat heavy on that judge's soul--the godless, selfish fear that sends the first coward slinking from the councils of conspiracy to seek immunity from those slowly grinding millstones that grind exceeding fine.
They peered upward among the snow-laden branches, and presently caught sight of a slinking form resting in a crotch of the tree.
Then came another howl from the wolves, this time in concert, and suddenly two of the slinking forms appeared close to the open door.
Presently she heard a rustle in the celandines, and sniffed cautiously to discover whether that which was coming were harmless rabbit, slinking stoat, or prowling cat.
Then, slinking along like a shadow and stopping to look back and sniff the wind, appeared a big red fox that had been sleeping away the afternoon on top of a stump in the center of the thicket.
A shadow with the slinking trot of a wolf glided along the ridge between us and the moon.
While I’d my sight, They’d scarce the nerve to look me in the eye, The blinking, slinking squealers!
Happen, they’re slinkingnow up Bloodysyke, Like adders through the bent .
Unslumbering alertness, as of a sentry in front of the enemy, is needed if the slinking onset of the wolf is to be beaten back.
He could hear some lurking rabbit slinking through the hazel bushes over at one side.
The saddle boys had hardly been inside the general store ten minutes before a slinking figure might have been observed drawing nearer and nearer to the horses ranged along the bar.
He continued down the wharf as, slinking like coyotes, those sinister forms glided from hiding-place to hiding-place and were never far from his heels.
Flint had arrived at the dock long before and was now slinking in and out among the crates and boxes as he sought diligently for a safe hiding-place.
What I mean is, that I have a kind ofslinking feeling that I ought to--a feeling of being ashamed for not being ashamed.
