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Example sentences for "stealth"

Lexicographically close words:
steales; stealeth; stealing; stealings; steals; stealthily; stealths; stealthy; steam; steamboat
  1. They do not need to keep the sign of the cross hidden, nor to express secretly their Christian joy, nor receive by stealth the eucharist.

  2. Gathering by 547 stealth in these subterranean crypts from the imperial palace and the lowly abode of poverty, they break bread together in the solemn presence of the dead in token of their common brotherhood in Christ.

  3. By stealth he makes his preparations, and by stealth he cons the miles and the post-houses between him and the country to which he means to carry himself and his stolen goods!

  4. By stealth he practises until he can sign his employer's name, more lifelike almost than life!

  5. By stealth he eyes the only wealth that his mole mind can value!

  6. By stealth he gains impressions of the keys.

  7. About the same time the Frenchmen got by stealth diuerse townes out of the Englishmens hands, and amongst other the faire towne of Compiegne was one, and the pretie towne of Crotoie an other.

  8. Hitherto, they had proceeded with great caution, and with a stealth and silence that were almost perfect.

  9. Alone, his confidence in his own stealth and secresy, would encourage him to penetrate; but, now!

  10. The idea of being constantly subject to the irruptions of a deadly foe, that moved with stealth and mystery, and was only to be traced by its ravages, and counted by its footprints, discouraged all settlement of the country.

  11. The "Black Rifle" spoke of himself and his followers as men inured to hardships, and accustomed to deal with Indians, who preferred stealth and stratagem to open warfare.

  12. They are sins that have recourse to stealth and secrecy, and thus are unlike pride, vainglory, and anger, which incline to display and openness.

  13. Lawfulness of Revealing a Secret Learned by Stealth or Force.

  14. Hence, one can steal from oneself by taking one's goods by stealth from the bailee with the design of charging him for their value or of depriving him of their use to which he has a right.

  15. Is it lawful, in order to avert some great evil, to use or reveal against the interests or wishes of its owner a secret which one has learned by stealth (e.

  16. It opened to his turn of the knob, and he climbed the stairs with what stealth he was capable of.

  17. One unguarded second, one instant when the protection of that virtue which is breathed into every woman's soul from the great Mother Soul was drugged by stealth or stunned by brutal blow, and she might be lost.

  18. If she but moves or looks, her step, her face, By stealth adopt unmeditated grace.

  19. Their steps might be sober, and their faces careworn; but no step had the furtive stealth of his, no face the same contracted, sinister, suspicious gloom.

  20. We buried him by stealth at dead of night, and did not notice that the hastily written inscription was reversed.

  21. They do not need to keep the sign of the cross hidden, nor to express secretly their Christian joy, nor to receive by stealth the eucharist.

  22. In her native Nubia she had an evil reputation as a sorceress, and in Rome she still carried on by stealth her nefarious art.

  23. We must do by stealth what we cannot do by force.

  24. They thought, not a few of them, of an old sword in a passage, or above a breakfast-room table, seen and fingered by stealth since they could walk.

  25. They had all Colonel Dabney's estate to play with, and they explored it with the stealth of Red Indians and the accuracy of burglars.

  26. He ought to have the seat of his ideals lanced, and all this wash about doing good to people by stealth taken away.

  27. I always suspect him of trying to convert me by stealth when I am not looking.

  28. There seemed to Bridge nothing unusual about the man's act, nor had there been any indication either of stealth or haste to arouse the American's suspicions.

  29. With moccasined feet they trod among brittle twigs, dried leaves, and dead branches as silently as the cougar, and they equalled the great wood-cat in stealth and far surpassed it in cunning and ferocity.

  30. Their inroads on the settlements were characterized, as usual, by extreme stealth and merciless ferocity.

  31. It was a war of stealth and cruelty, and ceaseless, sleepless watchfulness.

  32. Next day, by stealth again, we buried the little rose-lady, unknown to her husband.

  33. Oh, sorry, I thought you wanted the plans for the Stealth Bom- ber .

  34. This stuff is chicken feed compared to SDI and the Stealth Bomber.

  35. The Stealth pro- gram was certainly a boon to our air superiority.

  36. The two bad boys enjoyed in stealth their scandalous pastime, because they knew it was the most wicked thing they could do.

  37. I pulled off a little one by stealth (the man being mightily curious of them) and eat it, and it was just as other little green small oranges are: as big as half the end of my little finger.

  38. By your favour, liberty may by stealth be given to her; that one day she may return to you what you have given her.

  39. And now will he be snatching a kiss; and now not kisses only will he snatch; you will be compelled to grant him that, which by stealth you grant to me.

  40. Moving with the stealth of an Indian on the trail, he crept forward until at the end of a distant corridor he found what he sought.

  41. With the stealth of Indians they moved along the narrow passage, darting glances into every opening that seemed to branch off from the main corridor.

  42. A rising wind assisted the stealth of our progress.

  43. We shall be ready to take Mr. Vancouver by stealth or force the moment that actual danger comes near him.

  44. Deeds of darkness and of stealth they need not fear.

  45. And when Queen Dido at the feast shall hold thee in her lap, and kiss and embrace thee, do thou breathe by stealth thy fire into her heart.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stealth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    art; artfulness; artifice; cleverness; craft; finesse; guile; inventiveness; prowl; readiness; secrecy; sharpness; shrewdness; sophistry; stalking; stealth; subtlety; wile; wit