[f. SNEAK v.] The action of the vb. in various senses. Also with preps. and advs.
1649. G. Daniel, Trinarch., Rich. II., cxliv. But sneaking smells of Peasant, though they weare Blue Ribbands.
1656. North’s Plutarch, Add. Lives 43. He built a house without his Camp for all strangers…, whereby he prevented their sneaking into his Camp.
1706. Hearne, Collect. (O.H.S.), I. 217. By his Sneaking and Cringing.
1772. T. Simpson, Vermin-Killer, 20. They appear shy, but that is from your sneaking after them.
1829. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), II. 23. An assiduity … which sometimes almost verges towards sneaking.
1895. O. K. Davis, in Outing, XXVI. 403/2. By hard sneaking it was possible to get within about two hundred and fifty yards.
