steal away

Verb

Meaning

leave furtively and stealthily

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Examples

And the night shall be filled with music and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii) William Shakespeare

There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed. Washington Irving

You know, Jacob, if it weren't for the fact that we're natural enemies and that you're also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you." "Maybe...if you weren't a disgusting vampire who was planning to suck out the life of the girl I love...well, no, not even then. Stephenie Meyer

Pleasures steal away the mind. Dutch Proverb

Diseases come on horseback, but steal away on foot. English Proverb

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