clandestine
Definition: Surreptitious; kept or done in secret
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Wives and Daughters - By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
...Now little Molly Gibson has a certain gauchene about her which would disqualify her at once from any clandestine proceedings ....
The Queen of Hearts - By Wilkie Collins
...Granted the fact of the marriage, what proof does it afford me of the innocence of the three persons concerned in that clandestine transaction ?...
Dope - By Sax Rohmer
...`` I mean does he approve of your friendship with his wife, or is it a clandestine affair ? "...
Adventures of Caleb Williams - By William Godwin, Printers J. & J. Harper
...But the present interview, if concerted, was in the most em-phatical degree clandestine ....
The Man from Brodney's - By George Barr McCutcheon
...`` It may not appeal to your vanity, your Highness, but it is my duty to inform you that they have gone to report our clandestine meeting . "...
Tales and Stories - By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Richard Garnett
...`` I have been waiting for you these two hours, " he said angrily; " did you not hear my signal 3 " `` I know of no signal, " I replied; `` I am not accustomed to clandestine appointments . " "...
The Age of Innocence - By Edith Wharton
...No more guileless-looking cabinet particulier ever offered its shelter to a clandestine couple : Archer fancied he saw the sense of its reassurance in the faintly amused smile with which Madame Olenska sat down opposite to him ....
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...That opening of the door which I had heard after I had returned to my room might mean that he had gone out to keep some clandestine appointment ....
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion - By Jane Austen
...Whether the torments of absence were softened by a clandestine correspondence, let us not inquire ....
Mansfield Park - By Jane Austen, R. Brimley Johnson
...Mr Crawford was no longer the Mr Crawford who, as the clandestine, insidious, treacherous admirer of Maria Bertram, had been her abhorrence, whom she had hated to see or to speak to, in whom she could believe no good quality to exist, and whose power, even of being agreeable, she had barely acknowledged ....
The Age of Innocence - By Edith Wharton, Philip M. Parker
...But Mrs. Rushworth was `` that kind of woman "; foolish, vain, clandestine by nature, and...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - By Mark Twain, William Naill Otto
...So, the very next day I exposed my hidden schools, my mines, and my vast system of clandestine factories and workshops to an astonished world ....
The Return of the Native - By Thomas Hardy, John William Cunliffe
...Wildeve 's clandestine plan with her was to take a little gravel in his hand and hold it to the crevice at the top of the window-shutter, which was on the outside, so that it should fall with a gentle ruscle, resembling that of a mouse, between shutter and glass ....
Washington Square - By Henry James
...It was in these terms that Mrs. Penniman depicted to herself her niece 's errand, which, viewed in this light, gratified her sense of the picturesque only a shade less strongly than the idea of a clandestine marriage ....
The mill on the Floss - By George Eliot, Charles Henshaw Ward
...clandestine meetings with the son of a man that has helped io ruin her father ....
Mary Barton - By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mrs Gaskell
...She would have been willing to have embarked in a love-affair herself -LRB- especially a clandestine one -RRB-, for the mere excitement of the thing; but her willingness was strengthened by sundry half-sovereigns, which from time to time Mr. Carsons bestowed upon her ....
The Custom of the Country - By Edith Wharton
...She was as much ashamed as Mrs. Spragg might have been at finding herself used to screen a clandestine adventure . "...