1 The cat, unnoticed, had crept up on muffled paws from Zeena's seat to the table, and was stealthily elongating its body in the direction of the milk-jug, which stood between Ethan and Mattie.
2 The sky above turned slowly from azure to the delicate blue-green of a robin's egg, and the unearthly stillness of rural twilight came stealthily down about her.
3 She pressed her hands hard against her skirts, so they would not rustle and backed out as stealthily as an animal.
4 They had not stealthily taken garden and pasture and cotton field and lawn and reared themselves insolently by the porches of Tara, as they were doing on numberless plantations throughout the state.
5 Now, plantation after plantation was going back to the forest, and dismal fields of broomsedge, scrub oak and runty pines had grown stealthily about silent ruins and over old cotton fields.
6 Mammy edged herself stealthily to a chair beside the door and sank into it wearily, her shapeless body overflowing it.
7 Something was wrong with the world, a somber, frightening wrongness that pervaded everything like a dark impenetrable mist, stealthily closing around Scarlett.
8 But the feeling persisted, stealthily pervading her mind.
9 He feared that if he turned his back the body might spring up and stealthily pursue him.
10 He looked stealthily at his companions, feeling sure that they must discern in his face evidences of this pursuit.
11 When the voices died into silence, she rose and crept stealthily away.
12 Apparently this marked the consummation of Chichikov's relations with his host, for he hastened stealthily to pack his trunk and, the next day, figured in a fresh lodging.
13 Arkady looked compassionately at his uncle; Nikolai Petrovitch shrugged his shoulders stealthily.
14 The two brothers looked at him in silence, while Arkady stealthily watched first his father and then his uncle.
15 He had been sitting on thorns, all through the argument, and had done nothing but glance stealthily, with a sore heart, at Arkady.