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Example sentences for "craftily"

Lexicographically close words:
crafte; craftes; craftie; craftier; craftiest; craftiness; crafts; craftsman; craftsmanship; craftsmen
  1. How craftily the King corrected their Negligence.

  2. And I, being hard by, and seeming to know the woman, whispered to the man that he should pass his hands craftily over the skin, if peradventure a drop remained to moisten the lips of them that cried out for the thirst.

  3. But I will even do as thou biddest, if only these foolish ones will make room that I may pass my hands craftily over the skin.

  4. The girl, looking craftily at him, replied: "Why dost thou love me so quickly?

  5. I answered craftily that I should like to hear the arguments on both sides of the question, and requested them to choose which of them should be the first speaker.

  6. On endeavouring to get speech with her privately, I found myself completely baffled, and that so subtly and craftily that I raged and fumed inwardly.

  7. Many craftily prepared circumstances corroborated the infamous and degrading accusation, and quickly and secretly the emperor put his wife to death.

  8. Of some she spoke thus in all truth; of others, though she knew it would cost her life, she craftily and stoutly lied.

  9. And the hunter taketh heed thereof, and pitcheth full sharp hooks and stakes about the foot of the tree, and hangeth craftily a right heavy hammer or a wedge tofore the open way to the honey.

  10. And oft to such a culvour a letter is craftily bound under the one wing, and then it is let go.

  11. Both Shif'less Sol and Heemskerk had caught sight of figures slipping away among the trees, and Henry craftily drew back a little.

  12. They had been preceded already by Braxton Wyatt, who had hung back craftily while the Iroquois broke down the door.

  13. No, you conspired craftily in the darkness; like the mole, you dug the underground mine that was to swallow us up, and I countermined you.

  14. Posted craftily in this creek, like a bird of prey in the hollow of a rock, the corvette could easily expand its sails, and dart on any suspicious vessel signalled by the lookout.

  15. Craftily whispered Who besets the ear On such occasions.

  16. He fell back a step, lifting the weapon in a suggestive manner, and Half Hand halted, scowling blackly and smiling craftily by turns.

  17. The canoes were found craftily concealed, and in the soft ground near the lake were the imprints of tiny feet.

  18. You argue subtly and craftily across the threshold of your pitiful consciousness, but your misfortune is that you have only one head.

  19. Now to pretend and to speak craftily savor of dissimulation: and yet it is not to be said that there was sin in Christ or Abraham.

  20. The next moment, craftily lifted up about the girth of his leg by an iron fork, the noose tightened and the bite of it sank home into his flesh and pride.

  21. One Kurdish gentleman had among his kit fancy socks, knitted craftily in several vivid colours, also ornate slippers to wear in his promised palatial billet at Cairo.

  22. That ancient dog Saracen, the largest of the blood-hounds, had joined the expedition as a volunteer, craftily following and crouching out of sight, until he was certain of being too far from home to be sent back again.

  23. Craftily Almo caught it against his shield, just below the upper rim, horribly it grated against the bronze plating of the shield, with the full weight of the mighty swing it buried itself in the sod.

  24. Almo craftily maintained that Grittonius had been made governor with the fullest powers on all lines specifically to save the Emperor from being bothered about such trifles.

  25. This they strew craftily about the ground, and whoso eateth thereof, becomes instantly insane and dies.

  26. He heard the chug of bullets through the rotten logs, the oaths of his men, the battle cry of the rushing Nor'westers who had been craftily lying in wait.

  27. His own gray eyes twinkled craftily through the steel haze of the Company's tobacco.

  28. I advanced craftily down an endless corridor, but came to the edge of a wood, where there was a wicked spitting of shots.

  29. Thus craftily are we fooled by the Lords of Destiny, whose caprice it is to affect remoteness from us and a lofty unconcern for our poor little doings.

  30. Swiftly and craftily he bounded down by the upper end of the cleft, and entering Zretazoola by the outer gate which looks out sheer on the stars, he galloped suddenly down the narrow streets.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "craftily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.