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Meanings of stealthy footsteps in English

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Usage of stealthy footsteps in English
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He imagined that he heard stealthy footsteps in the grass stubble outside.
Summer of Night
2
The lad heard stealthy footsteps pattering about on the deck of the airship.
Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; Or, Daring Adventures in Eleph...
3
There was a noise as of stealthy footsteps in the corridor.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
4
He did not hear stealthy footsteps behind him in the dim spruce wood.
Kilmeny of the Orchard
5
There they heard the stealthy footsteps of midnight marauders on board.
The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln
6
He stared into the trees, looking for telltale shadows, listening for stealthy footsteps.
The Bone Doll's Twin
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He went straight to the terrace, along which he crept with stealthy footsteps.
Run to Earth: A Novel
8
Nevertheless I hear the stealthy footsteps of the approaching years.
The Dangerous Age: Letters and Fragments from a Woman's Diary
9
The sound of nailed boots on stones, and stealthy footsteps.
Dick and Brownie
10
He crept upstairs to his dressing-room with stealthy footsteps, and made an elaborate toilet.
Charlotte's Inheritance
11
Through the quiet of the house came stealthy footsteps.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
12
He had heard the stealthy footsteps on the landing below his room some time ago.
The Dark Door
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And once he could have sworn to stealthy footsteps along the verandah below his window.
Pearl of Pearl Island
14
And behind it came another-thetread of stealthy footsteps.
The Damned
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She heard his stealthy footsteps and the whisper of his satin robes on the path.
Bundori
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Frightful, terrible silence, broken at last by the sound of stealthy footsteps and hushed voices.
The Strand Magazine: Vol. 07, Issue 37, January, 1894. / An Illu...
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Stealthy footsteps through the time
Stealthy footsteps across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common