Buckingham had retired in dudgeon to his castle at Brecknock, and his astute prisoner Morton, soon became the capturer of his gaoler, at least in mind, and then bade him adieu.
The argument the astute ecclesiastic used was double-edged.
This, and the changed regime, offered a fine opportunity for effecting his purpose, of which the astute commissioner soon availed himself.
So far the elders in council; and the astute commissioner, recognising the difficulty, not to say danger, of touching on this delicate subject, said nothing to them about it.
Douglas, whom Lincoln regarded with intense personal rivalry, was tripped up by a string of astute interrogations, the answers to which hopelessly embroiled him with the South.
Perhaps this notion occurred to the astute and experienced Lieutenant Ogilvie, who considered it his duty to warn his youthful and ingenuous friend.
Rollins finally followed Trennahan's example and devoted himself to Caro Folsom, a yellow-haired girl with babyish green eyes, a lisp, and an astute brain.
What possessed you--" But the astute Helena detected a lack of decision in her friend's voice.
Is it matter of surprise, censure, or shame, that no English statesman was astute enough or base enough to contend with such diplomacy, which seemed inspired only by the very father of lies?
The Queen; infatuated as ever, still believed in the sincerity of Farnese, while that astute personage and his master were steadily maturing their schemes.
Upon this point, as it appears from Secretary Walsingham's lamentations, the astute Farnese was mistaken.
That astute leader, though fully cognisant of the virtues of his people, had a respect for "big battalions," and thought that the virtue designated patience would best meet the necessities of the situation.
There existed a small, astute minority who hazarded unpleasant opinions of these "trifles.
The advantages of a Soup-house were at once recognised, and the wisdom of such a creation was immediately acclaimed by a host of astute correspondents.
They were able to render their allies but little assistance, and their opposition gave the astute Edward IV an opportunity of intrigue.
But those astute masters had not so naïve a view of the function of a council.
Abélard now seems to have been taken in hand by a more astute admirer, Burchard, Bishop of Meaux.
But it was a course which had not entered into the thoughts of the most astute of them, and which completely upset their plans.
Appearances were so charming, and innocence apparently so clear, that they might have deluded a more astute man than Sir Henry Bromley.
Having thus arranged for Kitty's future, Gaston went along to his broker, and found that theastute Polglaze had got him his shares.
On arriving at the Wattle Tree Hotel he was received by Miss Twexby in dignified silence, for that astute damsel was beginning to regard the fascinating Frenchman as a young man who talked a great deal and meant nothing.
That astute young man would willingly have refused him, but, unfortunately, Pierre knew too much of his past life for him to do so, therefore he had to submit to the dumb man's extortions with the best grace he could.
But, once firmly seated on the throne, the usurper saw in his patient but proud and astute kinsman only a hindrance and a peril in the path of his own cruder and fiercer aspirations.
At the same time the astute plotter found other means to extend his authority and that of the conspiracy he ruled.
As it was, they lived at a period when it was considered the highest, most astute and successful form of trade to resort to any means, however base, to secure profits.
However execrated he might be in the Indian territories far in the West, he assumed, and somewhat succeeded in being credited with, the character of a patriotic, respectable and astute man of business in New York.
He knew his Washington and had an astute interest in the methods and characteristics of new members of Congress, particularly perhaps such as the rural districts loomed up behind as a background.
She had felt herself a sort of silent detective in the form of an astute old New England gentlewoman.
At first I thought you were a dupe of Melun's, but I was soon convinced that a man so astute as yourself could not possibly have been misled even by that clever scoundrel.
He was as certain as he could be in his official mind that he was constantly running up against the mostastute of master criminals that he had ever met.
But Westerham argued against such a course, pointing out that in broad daylight it would be practically impossible for even the most astute of followers to avoid the notice of the pursued.
She had solved the Dark Problem that baffled the world’s mostastute statesmen.
At twenty-three, without other wealth than his astute brain and ready wits, his future was sure.
The family of Medici, growing rapidly rich, began to use the power of capital as elsewhere lessastute adventurers used the power of the sword.
Pennington Wise was not mentioned, so Peter had no means of knowing that that astute person was connected with the matter.
And somehow, in the back of her astute little brain, she had a notion that the Blair murder and the supernatural manifestations were in some way connected, at least, indirectly.
Nothing succeeds like success," was the pithy maxim of Talleyrand, to whose astute observation nothing was more obvious than the disposition of mankind to make success the touchstone of merit.
A peasant or a pettifogging solicitor might very easily overreach an astute diplomate over a bargain in some remote country village; and the wiliest journalist may prove the veriest simpleton in a piece of business.
You will have rivals here, women far more astute and shrewd than Amelie; they will not fail to discover who you are, where you are, where you come from, and all that you are doing.
That astute prelate always had an object in making his statements.
The astute and patient King, brought up in the school of Louis XI.
The difficulties disappear as soon as Richard is acquitted, and his astute successor is placed in the dock.
His father confessor, though doubtless an astute courtier, failed to soothe his conscience.
This remark of giggling Miss Matty's was really astute for she knew that Mrs. Middlemass held Perry, the draper, in the most sovereign contempt.
Captain Bertram was astute enough to see that he played his best card here.
The astute captain, however, guessed her feelings, and chuckled inwardly.
Francis Joseph did not see as far into the game as his astute adversary, whose keen eye was focused at long range upon a renewed and consolidated Germany.
But his negatives, as he intended, were more effective than affirmatives would have been, and the bait had been safely swallowed by the unlucky fish for whom the astute speculator angled.
Mrs. Fenton's friends rallied her upon being a slave to her housekeeping; few of them were astute enough to understand that, kind as was always his manner toward her, she was instead the slave of her husband.
