I had discovered the headquarters of the gang, and I had found that cleverest of unhung crooks, the Ladybird, to be in command.
As an old Scotch gypsy said to me lately, the deepest and cleverest old gypsies all come over here to America, where they have grown rich, and built the old language up again.
It is a curious point in English character that the cleverest people do not realize or understand how festive and genial they really are, or how gayly and picturesquely they conduct their sports.
There is a gypsy camp not a mile away, and in it one of the cleverest fortune-tellers in England.
But if, as I hope, he really can write, for he is the cleverest monkey I ever saw, I will adopt him as my son.
Prince Camaralzaman was brought up with extreme care by an excellent governor and all the cleverest teachers, and he did such credit to them that when he was grown up, a more charming and accomplished young man was not to be found.
One of the cleverest caricatures of that cleverest of caricaturists, the Scotchman Gilray, was his sketch of the Whigs preparing for their first levee after the Foxite accession on the death of Pitt.
Kiau-chau represents the cleverest feat of colony-building the world has seen since the great powers declared a closure to land-grabbing in the East.
Because the Kaiser is the strongest, most influential, and cleverestpotentate in Europe.
The cleverest woman is she who, in talking to a man, makes him seem clever.
You are the cleverest one anyway for finding what no one else can--and every one wants.
His own speech was so emphatic that his writing would have looked odd without them, and many of his cleverest bits of nonsense would have been lost but for their aid.
But perhaps the cleverest part of the poem is the seemingly innocent paragraph of introduction which reads as follows: "In an age of imitation, I can claim no special merit for this slight attempt at doing what is known to be so easy.
Among the younger element appear the names of the cleverest thieves of today, some of whom have operated extensively in this country and abroad.
How to detect a forger as one of the cleverest of operating criminals has been solved by the "thumb print" method of identification now spreading through the rogues' galleries of the world.
The bank sneak is the cleverest of crooks, and as bold and daring as any of them.
As a consequence safe-breaking is going out of date in France, as the cleverest criminals have so far failed to find a way to circumvent the camera.
While passing through the Fair, one of the largest retail dry goods establishments in Chicago, Detective Wooldridge noticed one of the cleverest shoplifters that ever operated in Chicago, Bertha Lebecke, known as "Fainting Bertha.
At this point Zikali seemed to wake out of his indifference, or his torpor, for he looked up and said darkly-- "It is strange that the cleverest are always those who first fall into the trap.
Myself I nearly joined in it, for I thought this one of the cleverest bits of statecraft that ever I had heard of or seen.
I gave her a hearing because she wrote me the cleverest letter I have read for many a long day.
And would anyone be found in the house by even the cleverest detective after those hours had passed!
But I thought Etta Romney one of the cleverest women I have ever seen on the stage.
If you are a politician, or even a statesman, no matter how astute you are, you can read with profit several times a year the career of David, one of the cleverest politicians and greatest statesmen who ever lived.
One of the cleverest of our present-day writers of fiction started out to be a lawyer.
I have heard the very cleverest men in England talk the greatest stuff imaginable about actors and acting.
Well, Warren's soft, simple heart had been touched by all that endearing kittenish confidence, by Magsie's belief that he was the richest and cleverest and most powerful of men.
Why, she was even employing a distinct and youthfully insolent air of keeping Warren by her side merely on sufferance--Warren, the cleverest and finest man in the room, who was more than twice her age!
Bettina Vanderpoel, who was the richest and cleverest and most promisingly handsome among them, was colloquial to slanginess, but she had a deep, mellow, child voice and an amazing carriage.
Indeed, we find our cleverest work often accomplished by ladies.
As soon as the publication reached Chicago a number of the cleverest reporters on the News staff were sent out to interview the local literary authorities.
The greatest genius of thecleverest designers has been expended upon its construction.
Meusnier's design for a dirigible was the cleverest and most practical of its day, but owing to the cost, it was never actually carried out.
The first German machines to fly over French territory might well have struck terror to the hearts of the plucky French, for they were equipped with the cleverest instruments of destruction that Germany could devise.
Richthofen was one of the cleverest of the enemy aviators and in time he made his squadron a formidable aerial weapon.
If he kills them well and good, but if not he must perform his cleverest aerial stunts to get out of their way, or he will soon be a mere ball of fire shooting earthward.
For the Saracens are by nature unable to storm a wall, but the cleverest of all men at plundering.
He is one of our cleverest officers on the Staff, and this is how he hides it.
I tell you, his getting that letter from old Brown was one of the cleverest bits of diplomacy I ever saw.
There," said Speed, waving his hand towards the writer with a certain air of proprietory pride, "there sits one of the very cleverest men on the Chicago press.
I had known and liked Carson; one of the cleverest and most promising of Southbourne's "young men.
Why, she's one of them; thecleverest and most dangerous of the lot!
It sometimes happens that the cleverest of schemers falls between two stools.
She agreed with everything he said, so he considered her the cleverest woman he knew.
She was a very clever French maid was Louise,--one of the cleverest of her class.
For the cleverest and most rational, and I only pretended to believe that you were insane.
The state of mind of "the cleverestman in Russia" interested Pyotr Stepanovitch, but hitherto he had, for certain reasons, avoided explaining himself.
She, "the Ladybird," the accomplice of the cleverest gang of thieves in Europe, was actually entering a royal palace as intimate friend of its Queen!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cleverest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
