"Sneaky" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I'm sorry. It was a sneaky thing that I did to you. I—I don't know why I cared so much about staying on the team; I ...
— The New Boy at Hilltop • Ralph Henry Barbour
... Ah don' know," sobbed the poor girl; "only hit's somethin' mahty mean fo' sho'. He's that low-down 'n sneaky hit's sho' to be ...
— A Tar-Heel Baron • Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton
... I was a-comin' up the road from M'ria Payson's—you know she's right sick an' I've ben givin' her massidge—an' what sh'd I see but a man comin' out o' your gate with suthin' on his shoulder. I couldn't see who 'twas, an' he was so quiet an' sneaky without a light that I jest slipped behind a tree. You know I've ben dreadful skeery ever sence Tom was brought home with his arm broke after a fight with a strange man in the dark. Well, this man to-night he put the bundle or what not into a wheelbarrow an' set off quiet as a mouse. ...
— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye
... after that hot reception, Thad," Step Hen went on. "Oh! I hope I'll get a chance to pop over just one of the sneaky beasts. I'd like to say I'd shot a real wolf. Think of me, Step Hen Bingham, who up to a year ago had never gone off camping or hunting, with a bear to my credit, a buck actually knocked over, even if ...
— The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods - The New Test for the Silver Fox Patrol • Herbert Carter
... said Mark scornfully; "well, if ever I trust a tell-tale of a girl again. You are just as sneaky as Nell ...
— Hetty Gray - Nobody's Bairn • Rosa Mulholland
... and Tony to deliver it, but their father's remark, and his look, touched their consciences. Dan, too, for some reason or another, was against it; he said he thought that after all it was a bit sneaky and underhand, and he wasn't going to have any more of it. Betty felt the foundations of her world shake, and life bristled with new difficulties; but Dan had said it, so no one questioned. After Dan had put things in that light, Kitty suddenly realized that their ...
— Kitty Trenire • Mabel Quiller-Couch |
