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The pleasant task of helping pod the peas for Sunday lunch while eating the odd one on the sly should be part of childhood.
You just disappeared and Eileen told me that you had eloped with a man you'd been seeing on the sly.
It is very rare for already mated females to copulate on the sly with males who are socially subordinate to their current mates.
However famous a celebrity may be stateside, you can unearth a commercial they filmed for some rando foreign product on the sly.
Cyclists take tows on the sly, grab drinks and food from them, and are paced back to the pack by them.
The king's wife finds out his secret, and on the sly sends for the two children in the king's name.
We would have found people to buy this publishing house but everything was done on the sly to allow the American company to reclaim Ginn quickly.
It shows very clearly that no one can reintroduce a mini-Treaty on the sly now that the people have spoken.
Just ask one of NYPD's finest who recently failed to grab an eyeful on the sly.
Passing bills on the sly like this is a last-resort strategy for a government trying to make changes that do not have unanimous approval.
I found a pack of cigarettes, took one out, smoked it on the sly and decided it was not for me.
We do not deny the need for reform, but this reform must not be improvised in this way or brought in on the sly.
I am even more concerned when I think of Peru, because we can see the agreement was negotiated on the sly.
First of all, the Fifteen signed the agreement on the sly and under the smokescreen created by the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
You check it out, and discover that your 10-year-old son has been drinking on the sly.
The government has just announced the purchase of more tanks, but they were purchased on the sly.
Are its users loud and proud harbingers of the sex-tech revolution, or just people who want to get a bit freaky on the sly?
Younger and wirier than his charge, talking a mile a minute and singing during his chores, he nonetheless shows a careworn, weary face, and he drinks on the sly.
Unfortunately, the train to my conference left at 4 AM after a night spent trying to acquire a travel visa on the sly, which meant drinking a lot of vodka.
We learned on the Friday morning that the Liberals, the Conservatives, and the NDP, a large contingent at that time, had decided unilaterally to introduce the bill on a Friday morning on the sly, to avoid discussion.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Next, Clarence found that old Merlin was making himself busy on the sly among those people.
You have to visit your disreputable cousin on the sly, have you?
Undoubtedly the nicest way to get married is on the sly, and indeed it is at present becoming quite fashionable.
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