All 10 Uses
furtive
in
The Island of Dr. Moreau
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- As I stared at them, they met my gaze; and then first one and then another turned away from my direct stare, and looked at me in an odd, furtive manner.†
Chpt 6 *
- I recalled that none of these men had spoken to me, though most of them I had found looking at me at one time or another in a peculiarly furtive manner, quite unlike the frank stare of your unsophisticated savage.†
Chpt 7
- "None escape," said the Beast Folk, glancing furtively at one another.†
Chpt 12furtively = while taking pains to avoid being observed; or in a nervous manner (as though hoping not to be seen)
- But during these earlier days of my stay they broke the Law only furtively and after dark; in the daylight there was a general atmosphere of respect for its multifarious prohibitions.†
Chpt 15
- The females were less numerous than the males, and liable to much furtive persecution in spite of the monogamy the Law enjoined.†
Chpt 15
- When I saw their wincing attitudes and the furtive dread in their bright eyes, I wondered that I had ever believed them to be men.†
Chpt 16
- The Hyena-swine ran beside me, keeping pace with me and glancing furtively at me out of his feline eyes, and the others came pattering and shouting behind us.†
Chpt 16furtively = while taking pains to avoid being observed; or in a nervous manner (as though hoping not to be seen)
- The Thing was still clothed, and at a distance its face still seemed human; but the carriage of its four limbs was feline, and the furtive droop of its shoulder was distinctly that of a hunted animal.†
Chpt 16
- Two Beast Men came crouching and peering at them through the undergrowth, with gestures and a furtive carriage that alarmed Montgomery by their strangeness.†
Chpt 17
- I would go out into the streets to fight with my delusion, and prowling women would mew after me; furtive, craving men glance jealously at me; weary, pale workers go coughing by me with tired eyes and eager paces, like wounded deer dripping blood; old people, bent and dull, pass murmuring to themselves; and, all unheeding, a ragged tail of gibing children.†
Chpt 22
Definitions:
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(1)
(furtive) taking pains to avoid being observed
or:
in a manner indicating nervousness (being cautious or appearing suspicious) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)