Duncan is later seen asleep in bed for a fleeting moment as Lady Macbeth slinks about in the chamber's shadows.

"Then don't hide at the back muttering, stand up and speak up face to face with others instead of slinking about."

I'd rather know where he was than have him slinking about, perhaps waiting for a chance to stick his dagger into us.

They slunk about, like dispirited wolves or hyaenas; and made a pounce at their food when it was served out, much as those animals do.

A black cat with white paws slinks about, calling after the litter it gave birth to the day before.

'When I was that age, I slunk about in an agony of embarrassment in case anybody looked at me.'

Things were going to get nasty enough without a new hunt of hooded dashers slinking about.

Dogs, slinking about, emitted yelps of terror when someone hurled a stick at them.

Also we have seen only a few of these wan- dering bags of bones slinking about.

The Jesuits too, muster strong in the streets, and go slinking noiselessly about, in pairs, like black cats.