Meanings of steal about in English

Andrew saw the enemy steal about the base of the hill.

The strong ones sweep roaring and noisily along, the weak steal about quietly and furtively.

At other times Lightfoot would steal about through the Green Forest as noiselessly as a shadow.

Why do you steal about so quietly nowadays, and why don't you run the way you used to?

They might come talking carelessly, or they might steal about in dead silence, if they suspected that I was still alive.

Rosa explained further: She used to steal about at night, hoping to surprise papa or Sebastian going or coming from the treasure.

I wanted to steal about these deserted floors, like a conspirator; then, having, perhaps, found out about the mystery, to go back home.

The spirit and the message of the season (as they communicated themselves to him) began, as opiate among enfevered senses, to steal about his thoughts.

And so they creep into all the rooms, flinging their horrible shadows upon the gleaming walls, and gradually they steal about the bed...

There's a frightful constraint, a chilly, creepy dreadfulness steals about the party.

Everything here was decorous and grave, and the waiters stole about with noiseless feet.

It was gradually stealing about the company, the truth about Kate and Captain Leavenworth.

The religious atmosphere had stolen about him, melting and subduing.

The seamstress, stealing about her avocations, paused now and then to look at him.

He had a momentary vision of her stealing about the house, prying, watching, listening.

But Harrigan stole about him with a gliding, unequal step.