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Значения термина backstair на английском

Secret and sly or sordid.

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Examples for "furtive"
Examples for "furtive"
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He conceived the idea that there was something furtive in her movements.
Fire-Tongue
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The furtive quality in that quick peek sort of breaks Jack's heart.
Black house
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The next thing you notice is the furtive look of the thief.
History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Sant...
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In his eyes shone the furtive, terrified light of the trapped criminal.
The Black Box
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People looked furtive, and went in and out of the houses furtively.
Flames
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I do not believe in backstairs diplomacy any more than Dr. Hollweg.
Face to Face with Kaiserism
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He would never believe it-itwas a nasty piece of backstairs gossip!
The Metropolis
3
Medical need, rather than a backstairs political deal, should always direct health policy.
The Irish Times
4
There is a little cad down the backstairs who does it.
Doctor Claudius, A True Story
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Jewel found the backstairs and ascended them, her little heart hot within her.
Jewel: A Chapter in Her Life
Использование термина backstair на английском
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We went clapping up a clean stone backstair, and then into a back passage cheerfully decorated with ragged light-green Kidderminster, and issued upon
The Book of Snobs
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And Miss Verity descended the backstairs again.
Deadham Hard: A Romance
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His reading is principally Memoirs, which I think I have heard you call 'The backstairs of history.'
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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"He wasn't groom of the backstairs to England's queen for nothing."
The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life
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Had she been a second-hand clothes dealer, a frequenter of the backstairs of great houses, or had she been merely a courtesan?
Father Goriot
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Everybody pays a penalty for peeping through keyholes, and the keyhole and the backstairs are essential parts of the method of the modern biographers.
Reviews
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There's a board on the backstairs that squeaks, and I heard it plain, while you was still at me, hammer and tongs, Lydia answered.
Murder at Bridge
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