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Meanings of stealthy tread in English

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Usage of stealthy tread in English
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Listening, I heard a stair creak, as if under a stealthy tread.
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
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Then he regained his own chamber with the stealthy tread of a wolf.
Les Misérables
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He led her with silent, stealthy tread into the deepest gloom the compound afforded.
Rosa Mundi and Other Stories
4
How startling his description of the stealthy tread of the assassin upon his victim!
Something of Men I Have Known / With Some Papers of a General Na...
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There came the same stealthy tread in the porch.
Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa
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His hearing took account of a gopher's stealthy tread in the shadow of the cactus.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst o...
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With a stealthy tread the girl continued her journey.
The Little Regiment, and Other Episodes of the American Civil Wa...
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Huge oxen haunt the wilderness-greycreatures, with mild eyes and spreading horns and stealthy tread.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
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Thou comest with stealthy tread, like the midnight marauder.
Erling the Bold
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Ten yards behind, crawling with soft and stealthy tread, was a grim, half naked Somali.
The River of Darkness; Or, Under Africa
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Steadily they advanced with the quiet stealthy tread of panthers on the track of their prey.
The Boy Aviators in Africa; Or, an Aerial Ivory Trail
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He heard his stealthy tread, after a while, disturb a loose board on the upper porch.
The End of the World: A Love Story
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With a long stealthy tread the party descended the mountain and took their way through the woods.
True to the Old Flag: A Tale of the American War of Independence
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It has the same slyness and cunning, the same stealthy tread, besides an additional mischievousness and greed.
Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Makin...
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A heavy, stealthy tread, as of some big animal, was crushing the pygmy bushes near the tent.
Camp and Trail: A Story of the Maine Woods
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The cougar came on with stealthy tread.
The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderne...
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