I guess those thieves weren't soclever after all," she chuckled.
She believed that they were dealing with a clever band of criminals, a group of men who would stop at nothing to further their own schemes.
If you want only to be rich, why then be rich; if you are clever enough.
The print was a little damp in one place; but Pringle seemed to have been amazingly clever in snatching it out of the reach of the waves.
Clever man, of course, with much more dignity and much more of real gentlemanly feeling than ever I had, or am likely to have.
Scott goes on to assert that the story was simply a consummately clever advertising device.
Was there not some cause, hidden, but certain as the nose on the face, that a clever seaman like him must have something in the background which kept him from a far better position than that of a common sailor?
Such music had a lulling, dreamy tone, and greatly depended for effect on a clever use of the drone-pipes.
The Lees were a clever family; all their friends said so.
A clever jack will do much to obtain a choice morsel.
The Chinese are a clever people, very clever indeed, and in some things they must be acknowledged to show more wisdom than the nations of the West; but they are decidedly peculiar in their way of treating the sick.
It is interesting to see what cleverattempts many savages make to save their little stores of corn from their enemies.
In ancient days the Indians of the American continent seem to have been more clever at making musical instruments than of recent years.
This brother-in-law, captain of a merchant vessel, offered at the same time to give his clever nephew a berth on board his own ship, a barque trading between England and Australia.
Not only is there sure to be a mate close by, but that mate, if invisible, is likely to be playing a game, a very clever game as I have seen it played.
Indeed he closes his little sketch by remarking that Tintoretto after all is a very clever man and a highly commendable painter.
Then, again, clever lads are not always tactful, and an unbridled tongue may make hosts of enemies, and destroy the atmosphere of repose in which alone good work is possible.
Like many of the wives of clever men she played the tyrant in matters that did not concern the studio, and the painter would seem to have evaded some of her regulations for his comfort by saying the thing that was not.
His enemies induced Publius Bibulus, a clever and violent partisan, to attack him.
As soon as he was able to learn, Cato himself taught him his letters, although he had a clever slave named Chilon, who taught many children to read.
For, though warlike to excess, they thought that a victory gained byclever negotiation was greater and more befitting human beings than one gained by force and courage.
He was harsh to no one, but was thought by most men to be clever and witty, and the pleasantest of companions.
He was as brave as Miltiades, as clever as Themistokles, and more straightforward than either.
A man can scarcely introduce an Irish provincialism into his French, and he would be a clever fellow who could accomplish a bull under a twelvemonth.
The clever Wittysplinter would, no doubt, very soon bring them to you if you commanded him to do so.
Wittysplinter was so cautious, however, and so clever and watchful, that everything they did was in vain, and he brought all the commands of the King to a successful issue.
As for Jones's camel, that sagacious creature was far too clever to say anything about the circumstance.
Here we rove amid the wilds of the west, hunt the buffalo and the grizzly bear, are chased and captured by Indians, and make a clever escape.
I've always heard that cleverwriters are rather stupid when you meet them--it's quite true.
Ze captain bresent his gompliments and say zat he admire very much ze clever vay his ship is sunk, and zink ze vite men shall now be friendly, because we must all remain on zis island until ze var end.
It is a clever and amusing tale, full of high spirits and good-natured mischief which children not too seriously inclined will enjoy.
He 'll probably pitch some tall yarn about his clever escape from the cannibals--very likely write a book about it.
He lives in some small town in France, having contrived, with his known clever management, to keep himself in comfortable circumstances; and his best friends can only strive to forget his existence, rather than wish for his return.
There are hundreds of men there quite as hard up, and not half so clever as yourself.
I found him, as I had expected, a most agreeable and gentlemanlike companion, clever and well informed, and with a higher tone and more settled principles than are common to his age and position.
For a bounding ball came his way, and though he scooped it up in a clever catch that earned him applause, he threw it so high to Jerry that the tall lad had to leap in the air, and spear it down with one hand.
Never was there a more clever young aviator than Dave Dashaway.
The Governor-General of this province, who is one of them, is considered a very clever man, and he appears to have rather a notion of taking a go-ahead policy with foreigners.
This very clever feat we performed with the help of an anchor dropped from the stern, and are now in the main river.
If your friends were clever enough to find out the first arrangement they are clever enough to discover the change.
Besides, I was used to rough jobs, and these eminent gentlemen were too clever not to see it.
You are a clever actor, but not quite clever enough.
They were clever enough for anything, and an English prison was as good a way of getting rid of me till after June 15th as a knife in my chest.
A clever man can make big profits on a falling market, and it suited the book of both classes to set Europe by the ears.
A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.
We were both clever men, and we were both poor men.
A Limited Success' is a clever story, cleverly told, and decidedly interesting.
But the fiend was clever enough to keep his fist for their bodies, his flat hand for their faces; the wretched little victims were never actually disfigured.
Her child-mouth with its clever smile was bright as though his kiss had painted it.
And Elsie wondered why I had never shown myself quite so clever at school.
I to myself, thinking myself no endclever to have hit on it.
When that is dry," he said, "it will take a cleverman to tell where you have poked your nose this afternoon, Joseph!
But Aphra was a clever woman, and as soon as I saw her, and as soon as she had spoken with Jeremy, I knew for certain that there would be no turning her out.
Now Miss Orrin was a clever woman, and she grasped at once the immense moral value of having the support of Mr. Ablethorpe and his friend and spiritual director Mr. De la Poer.
I was not soclever as Elsie, and I did not pretend to be.
He laughed with them, not realizing they were laughing at him, but ever preening himself on being a very witty and clever person indeed.
Cosmetics and a clever hairdresser can work miracles," he said dryly.
A clever way, he thought, would be to get her more interested in himself, in his home.
This is what they were talking about: Alice, in her clever exact way, had told Miss Vincent the whole of that little Saturday-night talk concerning the good Samaritan.
The clever dowager, who has not married her son to an heiress with the intention of herself vegetating in Brittany, has the address to make M.
It is hard to say by what peculiar process of reasoning this clever citizen had come to look upon them as the cause of all his misfortunes.
We do not often meet with a novel to which it is less easy to do justice within the limits of an article, than to the clever and amusing one now under examination.
Mr Caird is a clever fellow in his way, but hardly the style of man to whom, under ordinary circumstances, we should feel called upon to devote so many of our pages.
It takes a cleverwoman to know how to flatter with the truth," said he.
She was a clever girl--clever beyond her years, perhaps--though in this day seventeen is not far from fully developed womanhood.
It seemed to me I couldn't hope ever to line up with the clever people they had there.
And naturally, every one of them is good-looking and clever or he'd not start in.
But it takes a genius to write a clever play that'll draw the damn fools who buy theater seats.
To him her clever housekeeping offered simply another instance of her cleverness in general.
But these French are so clever that they understand perfectly with their eyes.
Only damn fools work--and the clever man waits till they've got something, then he takes it away from 'em.
Streathern could not now close his mouth upon one last appeal on behalf of the clever and lovely and so amiable victim of Brent's mania.
It is easy for a man to pick up the habits, tastes, manners and dress of male citizens of the world, if he has as keen eyes and as discriminating taste as had Palmer, clever descendant of the supple Italian.
He put out the lamp and went to the bedroom, chuckling to himself like a man about to play a particularly clever and extremely good-humored practical joke.
Twm Shone clever thief; died rich man, justice of the peace and mayor of Brecon.
Ah, the love of the drop at college has prevented many a clever young fellow from taking holy orders.
Clever beast he was; made himself house of wood in middle of the river, with two doors, so that when hunter came upon him he might have good chance of escape.
A clever fellow,” said I; “though it was rather cruel in him to cut off the poor bull’s tail.
The old gentleman after a moment’s reflection said it was a clever fable, but an unpleasant one.
Before I could get clear of the town, I suddenly encountered my friend R—, the clever lawyer and magistrate’s clerk of Llangollen.
He told me that with all due submission he thought he could give me a better, which he had heard from a very clever man, gwr deallus iawn, who lived about two miles from Llangollen, on the Corwen road.
