stealthy

• So silent and so stealthy were his movements that the child was not aware of his approach, and even when he halted and crouched low not more than ten paces away his presence still was unsuspected In his turn, the Jaguar was so interested, so fascinated by the child that he was oblivious to all else. —  The Black Phantom
• Its intelligent, stealthy, and sinister sunken eyes, its depressed nose and heartless fixed grin aroused repulsion. —  The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
• I could hear someone breathe in the darkness--stealthy steps--then a hand groping lightly about feeling for my throat. —  The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
• These he soon learned to distinguish from the stealthy, broken, hanging footfall of the beast of prey. —  "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character
• He seemed to hold his breath; and his step was so soft and stealthy, that once or twice I stopped, under the impression that I had left him behind, but found him ever beside me. —  Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity

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