"Steal away" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... playing a melody suggested by the theme of his face. For it was low and soft, like that of a woman, and yet deep, like that of a man: and it seemed to be made of sound stolen from the pipe of Krishna, in order to enable it itself to steal away the senses of the world: so that as he spoke, the listener gradually grew bewildered by its tone, resembling a tired traveller, falling little by little unconsciously to sleep as he sits in the murmur of a mountain stream. And whenever he ...
— Bubbles of the Foam • Unknown
... I discover my self, or steal away? [Aside. And all asham'd of Life after this Action, Go where the Sun or Day may never find me? Oh! what Virtue I've abus'd— Curse on my little Faith; And all the Curses Madness can invent, Light on my groundless ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn
... you to know that I am privily a Dissenter? Do you know that I often steal away in a false beard to attend the services of Hard-Shell Baptists and ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 1st, 1920 • Various
... and now one would have thought the king might be satisfied and quiet, and that sleep would no longer flee from his eyelids, since Henry Howard, his great rival, had closed his eyes forever; since Henry Howard was no longer there, to steal away his crown, to fill the world with the glory of his deeds, to dim the genius of the king by his own ...
— Henry VIII And His Court • Louise Muhlbach
... last, Maggie gave it up for the time being, but her curiosity was thoroughly aroused, and for many days she persisted in her importunity, until at last, in self-defense, old Hagar, when she saw her coming, would steal away to the low-roofed chamber, and, hiding behind a pile of rubbish, would listen breathlessly while Margaret hunted for her in vain. Then when she was gone she would crawl out from her hiding-place, covered ...
— Maggie Miller • Mary J. Holmes
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