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noun

Stealth n.

The act of stealing; theft. (Obs.) "The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw."

The thing stolen; stolen property. (Obs.) "Sluttish dens... serving to cover stealths."

The bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or action; in either a good or a bad sense. "Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." "The monarch, blinded with desire of wealth, With steel invades the brother's life by stealth." "I told him of your stealth unto this wood."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stealth" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the sort," said her mother, reaching out for the paper. "Art minded to read it on the sly, miss? There shall be no letters read by stealth. Give ...

— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford

... cubs and hold themselves strictly to small game as long as it can possibly be found. Then when the bitter days of late winter come, with their scarcity of small game and their unbearable hunger, the wolves turn to the caribou as a last resort, killing a few here by stealth, rather than speed, and then, when the game grows wild, going far off to another range where the deer have not been disturbed and so can be approached ...

— Northern Trails, Book I. • William J. Long

... told Joab, Behold the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom. And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son. And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee ...

— The Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Complete • Anonymous

... willing to sojourn secretly, like a fugitive criminal, in the city that in the exercise of its free will had chosen itself a king, but not a Bonaparte. She was not willing to partake of French hospitality and enjoy French protection by stealth; she was not willing to go about in disguise, deceiving the government with a false pass and a borrowed name. She had the courage of truth and sincerity, and she resolved to say to the King of France that she had come, not to defy his decree of banishment by her presence, not for the purpose ...

— Queen Hortense - A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era • L. Muhlbach

... then within the beast's vast womb The choice and flower of all their troops entomb; In view the isle of Tenedos, once high, In fame and wealth, while Troy remain'd, doth lie; (Now but an unsecure and open bay) Thither by stealth the Greeks their fleet convey. We gave them gone,[1] and to Mycenae sail'd, And Troy reviv'd, her mourning face unveil'd; All through th'unguarded gates with joy resort To see the slighted camp, the vacant port; Here lay Ulysses, there Achilles; here The battles join'd; the Grecian ...

— Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham • Edmund Waller; John Denham

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