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From the bitter delights of the dark, and the feverish, the furtive
caresses
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Common Phrases
glance furtiveglances furtivelook furtive. furtiveeyes furtivemanner furtivefurtive castfurtive almost
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Poetry examples for “furtive”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The pulse's pause and measure,
Where in one furtive vein
Throbs through the heart of pleasure
Read full poem →Butts of cigars are on the glass topped table,
And through the smoke, gracing the furtive Babel,
The bishop's picture blesses the picaroons,
Read full poem →With eyes that meet forlornly what they must,
And only with a furtive recognition
See dust where there is dust, --
Read full poem →That furtive mien, that scowling eye,
Of hair that red and tufted fell----
Read full poem →Slobber, and you're enduring that worst thing,
Senility's queasy furtive love-making,
And searching those dear eyes for human meaning,
Read full poem →While time ticks blank and busy on their wrists,
And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists,
Flounders in mud. O Jesus, make it stop!
Read full poem →How well I know
Your furtive feminine shape!
As if reluctantly you show