With the shrewd cleverness that scarcely ever deserted her, she had forced her temper into the service of deception.
Isaacson's clevernesswas trusting a little to that, with a pitiless intuition that was almost feminine.
The cleverness of Isaacson, that cleverness which came from the Jewish blood within him, linked hands with the defiant adroitness of this woman even to-night and in the climax of suspicion.
She could only wonder and suspect, and govern herself to preserve the bloom of her beauty, and, looking at Ibrahim and Hamza, trust to his intriguing cleverness to "manage things somehow.
She had felt that her cleverness and her force of will made even that possible.
Granfer Fraddam knew of such a thing, and had kept its whereabouts a profound secret, and only through the cleverness and affection of Eli had I become possessed of its secret.
The dwarf chuckled much as though he vastly enjoyed the cleverness of the Tresidders, but he made no remark for a long time after I had finished my story; then he said quietly: "We must watch thicky maazed man, Jasper.
When one considers Erma's height and proportions and the almost unnatural whiteness of her skin, one sees that it is merely to be expected that such a slender and brown individual as Bert should be impressed by her cleverness at bridge.
Dear me, Lynn, what a pity it is I can't bestow some of my superfluous cleverness on you.
In a letter written in the spring of 1867, Lord Houghton refers to Mr. Gladstone as being 'quite awed' for the moment by the 'diabolical cleverness of Dizzy.
Mr. Gladstone, according to Lord Houghton, seemed at the same moment 'quite awed with the diabolical cleverness of Dizzy.
Heinrich enthusiastically caught up the theory of the fate line, and led their thoughts in his own erratic way from the sphere of cleverness to the sphere of sophistry, and from the sphere of sophistry to the sphere of the nonsensical.
One is impressed by their business sagacity, their cleverness in finance, their complete grasp of all questions, yet no people are easier gulled or more readily victimized.
Here is one, told to illustrate the cleverness of a drinker.
The hairbreadth escapes one has--the sense that it is one's own cleverness that carries one through--the delight of escaping from the destruction that seemed down upon you!
Without much real harm in him--he was too lacking in temperament to be really wicked--he was as cunning as an ape and justified his good opinions of his clevernessby the fact that his laborious little tricks constantly succeeded.
What a child she was really, with all her cleverness and quickness.
More and more did he begin to appreciate the subtlety and cleverness of his companion.
Like most cunning criminals he could never quite dispossess himself of the idea that honesty and cleverness never went together.
Miss Mercy snickered in appreciation of the cleverness of her manoeuvre.
This was when people had ceased to congratulate her and to talk, the nice ones, of the great cleverness of George Holland; the nasty ones, of the great pity that so delightful a man did not come of a better family.
He did not come of a very good family--a fact which probably accounted for his cleverness at Oxford and in the world.
No, she had ever found him by her side, and it did not need her to exercise much cleverness to keep him there.
Mr. Ayrton also seemed to perceive a sort of clevernessin the sermon.
And that was how it came about that Herbert Courtland found himself daily admiring the cleverness of Phyllis Ayrton when she had the punt pole in her hands.
Mr. Ayrton got rid of some of his superfluous cleverness in putting a counter question--you know the way.
Beatrice was present at all the deliberations, and surprised the other commissioners by her cleverness and quickness, and the ready tact she invariably showed.
The singular charm and intelligence of Beatrice made a deep impression upon Maximilian, who could not but contrast her brightness and cleverness with the dulness and ignorance of his own Milanese wife.
For, in spite of the cleverness of our guide, the mandarin's men had been as cunning.
The distinction of the Teniers was the extreme fidelity and cleverness with which they copied (but did not explain) the life they knew--the homeliest, humblest aspect of life.
It could not have been for the easy cleverness of such a retort that she had planned the affair.
She must have been a clever girl," Mrs. Verrian said, with that admiration for any sort of cleverness in her sex which even very good women cannot help feeling.
The next morning the newspapers with one accord paid tribute to the cleverness of the Loch Lomond scene in "Flo Dearmore's turn," and at every remaining performance it was repeated.
She was clever, and she used her cleverness with unfailing tact and unscrupulous audacity.
Beyond these limits he was as ignorant as dirt; but he had a cleverness which served as a substitute for book learning, and he seldom failed in impressing the people he met with the idea that he, Gomez de Montesma, was no ordinary man.
Mr. Stryker was a man between forty and fifty, possessing some little property, a very good opinion of himself, and quite a reputation for cleverness and knowledge of the world.
So far this point was easily settled; but it was difficult to place the opposite facts, of the cleverness and better temper of the plaintiff, as clearly before the court as they had appeared to the defendants.
The Frenchman looked puzzled for a moment, but with a foreigner's intuitive cleverness be guessed at the gist of the question.
As I told you, cleverness without godliness will not give it you; but godliness without cleverness may.
The princes admitted Jeremiah's clevernessand Baruch's courage; but just at this time, when the king was contemplating rebellion from Babylonia, such preaching was treasonable and would prove injurious to the cause.
His cleverness and wit had made him famed far and wide.
No amount of proficiency or cleverness can be a palliation of your behavior.
Apart from its great interest and exceptional cleverness as a novel, this book is well worth reading.
His brick-coloured face was illumined by two small eyes, which sparkled with cleverness and flashed like carbuncles.
