What a beautiful ring you are wearing, Honora," Uncle Tom remarked slyly one April morning at breakfast; "let me see it.
Harvey winks slyly at me the while, and never so much as offers a word of correction.
There were some who slyly congratulated Virginia, whose martyrdom it was to sit up with people all the day long.
The Colonel slapped his knee, winked slyly at Lige, while Virginia began to sing: "I built me a house on the mountain so high, To gaze at my true love as she do go by.
And glancing slyly at the blushing Dolly, he continued: "I have been many things, Miss Manners, but never before an instrument of Providence.
You will be wanting a word with her when she comes in," said Comyn, slyly divining.
He glanced slylyat Comyn, and his Lordship laughed a little.
Then she would slyly murmur a disclaimer of any ability to criticise my continuation of a comparatively futile existence, adding that she was but an inexperienced girl.
I finished my first and second bottles with the silence only broken by the sound of my knife-play and an occasional restless creaking of boots as one of my men slyly shifted his position.
If you see a fox slyly coming into your yard, beware of envious friendships; your reputation is beingslyly assailed.
If her lover is slyly observing it through her sheer corsage, she is about to come under the soft persuasive influence of a too ardent wooer.
He nodded at her slightly, watching her fixedly, turning up the corners of his eyes slyly, his nose seeming slyly to sharpen.
He was keen after money, was Arthur--and bossy, creeping slyly after his own self-importance and power.
Alicia pressed up against him, slyly and nervously, and her restless curls produced little electric ticklings on his temples.
Slyly and proudly the silversmith grinned to himself.
If hereafter you do again go out of doors slyly and on your own hook," dowager lady Chia impressed on his mind, "without first telling me, I shall certainly bid your father give you a caning!
And aren't you yet satisfied with them that you must, of a day, go slyly prowling and gallavanting about, dragging indiscriminately into your rooms frowsy and filthy people?
Besides she cares not to eat all the time, but she will sometimes go to view herself in the river, or when she thinks no one is looking will slyly turn her head to see the graceful movements of her tail.
And even as she said it, she found the clock behind her back had leapt mysteriously and slyly forward.
Men from the other queues looked round, and one or two whistled slyly beneath their breath, but her own queue adopted her protectingly, and moved her up to their head, against the counter.
Slyly they dawdled over his wares, until Madame had made her market and departed with me.
I therefore showed no signs of impatience, and I saw her consult her watch in the course of her ugly minstrelsy, and slyly glance, as if expecting something, in the direction of our destination.
The situation appealed to his slyly malign humor, she confidently secure, he completely informed.
He could not decide whether she was embarrassed or slyly amused.
And Lise kept laughing her thin hysterical giggle, looking slyly at Alyosha.
The peasant was silently and slyly watching him, with insulting composure, and even a sort of contemptuous condescension, so Mitya fancied.
He spake the old phrase slyly as, glancing round his train, He saw his merry followers seek to hide their smiles in vain.
How the souls in Purgatory Scrambled up from fate forlorn, On St. Eleven's sackcloth ladder, Slyly hitched to Satan's horn.
A young neighbor of ours has also cured her pet cat of slyly pilfering eggs at the stable, in much the way Uncle Solon cured his dog.
Afterward I saw him slyly slipping handfuls of those chips into his pocket.
And now Ryder slyly insinuated into Griffith's ear that the mistress told the priest everything, and did nothing but by his advice.
Mrs. Ryder eyed him demurely day by day, and often opened a window slyly to watch him unseen.
Sneak, in a whisper, leaning against Joe, and slyly taking a cartridge from his belt, slipped it in the muzzle of the musket which was standing against the palisade.
I bit my lip, reddened, and then laughed at the slyly taunting reference to my lack of all success in questioning him concerning the little maiden, Lois.
I feel like one of those smooth and lurking naiads which haunt lost pools--or like some ambushed water-sprite meditating malice, and slyly alert to do you a harm.
The Wyandotte did not lose his temper, nor even, apparently, perceive how slyly he was being baited by all except myself.
Gracefully the little slave girl eluded the boys; slyly she circumvented their attacks.
Slyly making his way along on foot, Sicto watched his rival.
The result of this secret survey was, that he shaded his face with his hands, and laughed slyly and noiselessly, until every vein in it was swollen almost to bursting.
Kit shook his head, and glancingslyly at his questioner, thanked him, and made off before he could say another word.
Mr Brass slyly tickles his nose with his pen, and looks at Kit with the water standing in his eyes.
With a knowing look at Pranken, Fraeulein Perini slyly remarked that the Aunt was kept as a reserve to be brought to bear upon Manna, but she hoped that Pranken and herself would be able to hold the field.
Everybody laughed at the boy, who had charge of the dogs, who was grinningslyly at the idea of his having said something funny.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slyly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: back; guilefully; knowingly; secretly; slick; smoothly
