Occupying the line of hills, he began forthwith to entrench himself behind deep ditches and artful palisades.
Stimulated by the presents as well as by the artful representations of British agents the Indians had consequently become hostile.
But this Artful Mediator found Means to avoid a private Meeting.
The Wine overpower'd him, and his artful Companion plying him with Bumpers, soon disabled him from going any farther.
To the specific charge that Pinckney must have sketched his draught "in so artful a manner as to make it seem the original" if it was not what he had represented it to be, Madison made no reply.
They were artful enough to avoid the shell holes, where the gas lay thick; but they had little time to pick and choose their way, for the relentless Reedshires clung to their heels so closely that our machine-guns had to cease fire.
A Red Cross nurse is a very sacred personality to the British soldier, but Dennis's voice carried conviction with it, although the artful jade made a bold bid for liberty.
But their virtuous feelings have been played on by some fact with more fiction; they have been the dupes of artful manoeuvres, and made for a moment to be willing instruments in forging chains for themselves.
The most artful misrepresentations of the contents of these papers were published yesterday, and produced such a shock in the republican mind, as had never been seen since our independence.
My only companion was a loathly dwarf; goodness never knit the bond of affection between us; artful toils the cunning foe spread for me.
You artful ladies," the hero shakes his head, "let be that policy!
Loge sets the cowering dwarf on his feet and by artful questions gets the whole story from him of the ring and the Nibelungs' woe.
Here I did him, as events have proved, the most grave injustice; and I think he was at once far more sincere, and a far more artful performer, than I supposed.
Nay, and he hit me with the other end of the stick; for he accused me of a kind of artful cowardice, going about at the expense of a little risk to purchase greater safety.
The artful favourite impressed upon his master this idea of his own importance, and advised him to terrify the Emperor, by threatening an alliance with Sweden, and thus to extort from his fears, what he had sought in vain from his gratitude.
The steps openly taken by the Emperor against the Lutheran church, had at last removed the veil from the eyes of John George, who had been so long the dupe of his artful policy.
The artful Capuchin was too sure of his man to touch upon this ground of consolation.
Far from intending to fetter his military operations by a truce with Sweden, the artful prince hastened his preparations, and employed the leisure which his enemy afforded him, in making the most active dispositions for resistance.
This artful prelate broke off the negotiation the instant the storm of war passed away from his own territories.
With artful eloquence, he expatiated upon the happy tranquillity of a private station, which had blessed him since his retirement from a political stage.
Insensible to pity, and fearless of consequences, he was the ready instrument of every act of cruelty which the policy of that artful prince might at once suggest and disclaim.
Commodus was perfectly satisfied with the magnificent presents which the artful courtier laid at his feet in the most seasonable moments.
The whole passage is imagined with artful flattery, and expressed with an easy flow of eloquence.
Artful men, who study the passions of princes, and conceal their own, approached his person in the disguise of philosophic sanctity, and acquired riches and honors by affecting to despise them.
That artful prince, instead of discovering the least symptom of impatience, humbly solicited their suffrages for himself or his friends, and scrupulously practised all the duties of an ordinary candidate.
During a long period of two hundred and twenty years from the establishment of this artful system to the death of Commodus, the dangers inherent to a military government were, in a great measure, suspended.
The artful Maesa saw and cherished their rising partiality, and readily sacrificing her daughter's reputation to the fortune of her grandson, she insinuated that Bassianus was the natural son of their murdered sovereign.
The pride, or rather the policy, of Diocletian, engaged that artful prince to introduce the stately magnificence of the court of Persia.
He was received with respect by that artful prince, and with the appearance of filial tenderness by the empress Fausta.
The wealth of Asia, the arms and ensigns of so many conquered nations, and the magnificent plate and wardrobe of the Syrian queen, were disposed in exact symmetry or artful disorder.
I am sure that you must have received your impressions, such as they are, from artful and designing persons, who had only their own ends in view when involving you in their plots.
It is sadly difficult for the injured person to ward off the effects of a deceitful glance, a misleading action, an artful insinuation.
They are of course not all perfectly beautiful, but their wonderful tresses are always built up in such an artful way that they never fail to nestle in the nooks and crevices of the most unearthly creations.
Artful questions embarrassed the unwary printer, and at last the secret was disclosed.
The monk, assisted by the artful Moncade, adroitly mingled together the pope's deliverance and Catherine's marriage.
The commission," said the artful Medici to Knight, "must be corrected according to the style of our court; but here is the dispensation.
Through the assistance of the artful Maria, who continued, in spite of his caution, to worm out some important secrets from Juan Garcia, every Protestant in Valladolid was discovered and marked for destruction.
By this artful management they transferred the calamity and the burden of the war to the territories of their neighbors.
Their decisions were controlled by artful and designing demagogues.
It is difficult for the critic to characterize poems so true to simple nature, so spontaneously passionate, and yet so artful in the turns of language, molded like wax beneath the poet's touch.
Yet the student of Italian, eager to know what speech was current in the streets of Florence during the last half of that century, will value Sacchetti's idiomatic language even more highly than Boccaccio's artful periods.
The artful structure of the period, and the cadences of what afterwards came to be known as "numerous prose," were carried to perfection.
Tommy Chitling hasn’t won the point, and I went partners with him against the Artful and dum.
He was curious concerning Harriet Wesden now--no match-making mother could have taken more indirect and artful means to elicit the truth concerning her child's elect.
This was noartful fiction, no solemn mockery of woe: a few words had worked that dreadful revolution in her mind.
He was a model of mountain beauty, wild, majestic, and free from artful decoration.
She was a pleasant friend; just the soft bit sweeter than male friends which gave the flavour of sex without the artful seductions.
When she was gone, Lady Dunstane thought she had worn a mask, in the natural manner of women trying to make the best of their choice; and she excused her poor Tony for the artfulpresentation of him at her own cost.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "artful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
