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Sneak off   /snik ɔf/   Listen
Sneak off

verb
1.
Leave furtively and stealthily.  Synonyms: slip away, sneak away, sneak out, steal away.






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"Sneak off" Quotes from Famous Books



... is on the square won't have trouble in getting through," Jimmie observed, "but we've got to be moving. I imagine the guards want us to remain here, so we'll have to sneak off if we leave camp. The guards seem to think we couldn't find our way ...
— Boy Scouts in Mexico; or On Guard with Uncle Sam • G. Harvey Ralphson

... who is on the square won't have trouble in getting through," Jimmie observed, "but we've got to be moving. I imagine the guards want us to remain here, so we'll have to sneak off if we leave camp. The guards seem to think we couldn't find our ...
— Boy Scouts in Mexico; or On Guard with Uncle Sam • G. Harvey Ralphson

... your tone, sir; no bullying me. I suspect! I have good reason for suspicion; and if you sneak off in this way, and cheat me out of my property in Juliet Araminta, I will leave no stone unturned to prove what I suspect: look to it, slight man! Come, I don't wish to quarrel; make it up, and" (drawing out his pocket-book) "if you want cash down, and will have an engagement ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... her way to the outer circle of the flock, on the opposite side from the man. When the man moves around to her side, she will be found to have plunged into the crowd, and it is hard to find her. Sometimes she will actually try to sneak off, and conceal herself in some dark corner, or back of some large object. Every poultryman will smile when this occurrence is mentioned to him—he knows by experience that hens have a way of sensing what he has in ...
— Clairvoyance and Occult Powers • Swami Panchadasi

... always to be grand and elegant and uncomfortable. The beloved and battered high hat was put away in a closet and only looked at secretly. State robes had to be worn on all occasions. And when the Doctor did once in a while manage to sneak off for a short, natural-history expedition he never dared to wear his old clothes, but had to chase his butterflies with a crown upon his head and a scarlet cloak flying behind him in ...
— The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle • Hugh Lofting



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