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SLUNK

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slunk past şi part. trec. de la slink (I).

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In the great moonlight clearings I slunk along among the shadows on the margin.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Do you think I would leave her alone to face the music while I slunk away?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He slunk away with a livid face and two venomous eyes which uttered more threats than his tongue could do.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At sight of Alleyne they slunk past him with somewhat of a shame-faced air, and springing upon their horses galloped after their party.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

White Fang slunk into camp one evening and dropped down with a sigh of content.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

And then, as we all slunk back to our places, Gray, he said, I'll put your name in the log; you've stood by your duty like a seaman.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Furtively, instinctively, I slunk back behind the table and drew and cocked my revolver.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Still, I could not bring myself to desert Jim; and so, as I say, I slunk about the house with so pale and peaky a face that my dear mother would have it that I had been at the green apples, and sent me to bed early with a dish of camomile tea for my supper.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Micawber, supremely defiant of him and his extended finger, and making a great deal of his chest until he had slunk out at the door, then addressed himself to me, and proffered me the satisfaction of witnessing the re-establishment of mutual confidence between himself and Mrs. Micawber.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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