Agnes followed, after a discreet interval, and in silence gave up the sovereign.
They went out, but kept at a discreet distance from the artist, who continued to use her pencil until dusk had fallen.
' The youth assumed a discreet indignation.
Home, a model teacher, the essence of the sedate and discreet: somewhat conventional, perhaps, too strict, limited, and scrupulous, but still the pink and pattern of governess-correctness; whilst another person, Professor Paul Emanuel, to wit, never lost an opportunity of intimating his opinion that mine was rather a fiery and rash nature—adventurous, indocile, and audacious.
"You are perfectly right to be wary and discreet.
But the young maiden, being discreet and of good repute, would ever avoid him, for she feared his evil name.
We had never seen Peter's mother before, and we looked at her with discreet curiosity.
To this point he has been discreet in dreading to provoke me; you must represent the peril of quitting that policy, and remind him of my passionate temper, verging, when kindled, on frenzy.
"I'll be discreet, dear, but you owe it to yourself, as well as Bob, to have the truth known.
He felt it would be the safer and more discreet plan not to look at the Earl, as it had been well known that his fatherly affection for his sons had been such that he had seen them about twice a year, and that when they had been ill, he had promptly departed for London, because he would not be bored with doctors and nurses.
" He did not think it would be discreet to repeat the exact words the Earl had used, which were in fact neither polite nor amiable.
It was a matter upon which he was reticent, and with persons of his kind a direct question is never very discreet.
I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions.
" The Rat pushed the paper away from him wearily, but the discreet Mole took occasion to leave the room, and when he peeped in again some time later, the Rat was absorbed and deaf to the world; alternately scribbling and sucking the top of his pencil.
" Diana preserved a discreet silence, but she and Anne exchanged furtive smiles of guilty amusement across the table.
She had taken her place again in a society which ignored the fact that she had ever had a daughter and pitied her, if it pitied her at all, only in discreet whispers and asides.
Moreover, he wanted to assure himself that Huck had remained discreet.
Fain would his dogs have known, as breathing heavily and wiping their cutlasses, they gathered at a discreet distance from his hook, and squinted through their ferret eyes at this extraordinary man.
" "There's a certain level of being discreet and private that we cherish," he said.
The mobile works out which route you should be following and the shoes then emit a discreet vibration in either foot telling you when and where to change direction.
