"Sneakiness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have told me you did it, and not leave your ole father to find it out how you disgraced yourself and him, too, by a low-down, underhanded, woman's trick! I've said I done it, and took the blame myself, and all the sneakiness of it that folks suspect. If I get away alive—and I don't care much which—you needn't foller. The house and stock are yours; but you ain't any longer the daughter of your ...
— Stories in Light and Shadow • Bret Harte
... been, upon my word, as far back as I can think.—You had crept into my heart even in the old days when you were a child and were always so honest ... so frank about a thousand little things—so straight and true, however things were. No sneakiness, no subterfuge—whatever the consequences. I've known women enough in Tarant and in Eberswalde at the agricultural college and in the army, and I was usually lucky with them—ridiculously so. And yet I never knew true ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume II • Gerhart Hauptmann |
