The great place was full of lurking, pouncing shadows that crowded about the little island of faint candlelight, but they had no terrors for Emily now.
It was so peaceful and beautiful there that it didn't seem possible that danger of any kind could be lurking near.
Conscious always of this basilisk attention, she would writhe under it, half-flattered, half-puzzled, and Monsieur would follow her sensations, sometimes looking appallingly acute; for in some cases, he had the terrible unerring penetration of instinct, and pierced in its hiding-place the last lurking thought of the heart, and discerned under florid veilings the bare; barren places of the spirit: yes, and its perverted tendencies, and its hidden false curves—all that men and women would not have
" said Holmes, "he seems a quiet, meek-mannered man enough, but I dare say that there was a lurking devil in his eyes.
It may be lurking among these rocks at this instant.
Laura Lyons of Coombe Tracey had written to Sir Charles Baskerville and made an appointment with him at the very place and hour that he met his death, the other that the lurking man upon the moor was to be found among the stone huts upon the hillside.
"Well," said I, "has this precious relation of yours departed, or is he still lurking out yonder?
Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.
And superstition or not, if I find that yellow beast lurking near our baby I will whack him with the poker, Mrs.
And yet, she had to admit that the same thought had been lurking in her mind ever since she had heard of Leslie's freedom.
Even when the east wind sang in minor and the sea was dead and gray, hints of sunshine seemed to be lurking all about it.
I'll engage he's lurking there.
The floor was of smooth, white stone; the chairs, high-backed, primitive structures, painted green: one or two heavy black ones lurking in the shade.
There was a smile lurking about the Earl's mouth when Cedric came back with the box containing the game, in his arms, and an expression of the most eager interest on his face.
Fred did not enter into formal reasons, which are a very artificial, inexact way of representing the tingling returns of old habit, and the caprices of young blood: but there was lurking in him a prophetic sense that evening, that when he began to play he should also begin to bet—that he should enjoy some punch-drinking, and in general prepare himself for feeling "rather seedy" in the morning.
Minchin might be better able to detect it lurking and to circumvent it.
Wilkins would be lurking in the top garden waiting to waylay her when she went out, and would hail her with morning cheerfulness.
All the Beyond was hers with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years—each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chaplet.
From the corner of your eye you are aware that it is lurking over yonder in a spot where there was nothing but pale purity a moment ago.
A: That jungle has danger lurking around every corner.
