skulking

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Skulking behind the pillars of a public building on the main square of Ravenna was one Loopoldo Missiroli, Communist, eying the passersby.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Me? What are you doing? Skulking around in the wee hours, bungling the staircase so as not to be heard.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Skulking along the fence trying to whistle her out like a puppy.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

Skulking coyotes, seeking prey among earth mounds, or night hawks, lilting solitarily in vaulted mid-heaven, uttered cries that pierced the vast blue.

From Lords of the North by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

Skulking to the crest of a naked knoll, he saw the landscape spread out all around him, with the few twinkling lights of the straggling village below the slopes of the pasture.

From Kings in Exile by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir