There is something gigantic about it; it is like a struggle between dwarfs and an ogre, in which the pygmies have to resort to cunning and trickery to get out of the clutches of one who seldom relaxes his grip.
Elinora, though she had sat up late the night before at the party, and had been very ill-natured all day, was surprised into a smile of pleasure when she saw the cunning little creatures in their curious house.
They are cunning little creatures," added the gentleman, bending down and looking into the grand parade, where the mice were now feeding on canary seed.
Both of them gazed with interest at the cunning movements and the agile performances of the little creatures.
For you have not only posed as a lover, but with the cunning words of a logician you prove what seemed wrong to be really a sublime right; and what I charged as selfishness, you call "a prayer.
The few minutes before the appearance of Skelton had been used by the cunning youth to place a friend near the entrance of the bog, with orders to stand with his back to the wind and sing a song at the top of his voice.
By a mixture of cunning and good fortune, Catalina managed to escape from the prison in which she was confined, and making her way through the narrow streets to the harbour, she got into a small boat moored there and hoisted a sail.
Dicky was a merciful angler: he was the gudgeon, for the too cunning fishes, spying his comical figure, stole his bait, and he hooked nothing but tin pots and old shoes.
An architect of genius, for all that he works with colossal blocks and cumbrous pillars, is certainly the most cunning of conjurors.
My rather grim Abigail was a neophyte in foreign travel, though doubtless cunning enough at her trade, which I inferred to be that of making up those prodigious chignons worn mainly by English ladies.
The designs are nonsensical, he declares, and all his admiration is for the cunning artisans who have imitated the hatchings and shadings and hair-strokes of the pencil by the finest curves of inserted black stone.
Odysseus made fast the cord, securing it with an intricate and cunning knot, which he had learnt from the great sorceress Circe; and when he had finished he was summoned by the eldest of the handmaids to the bath.
But as touching Odysseus, that part of thy story likes me not; methinks 'tis a cunninginvention to flatter my ears.
So for three years she has put them off by a cunning trick.
Penelope's tears flowed fast as she listened to thatcunning fiction, which seemed to bring her husband before her eyes.
Thou art plainly no athlete, but some cunning merchant, with thy head full of thy cargo, and fingers only skilled in counting thy gains.
And yet another famous criminal he saw, Sisyphus, the most cunning and most covetous of the sons of men.
But come, contrive some cunning device, whereby I may avenge me, and be thou at my side to aid me, that my heart fail me not.
Miko has read your book of life; when yet a young man he learned your letters, for he saw that the cunning of the palefaces came from their dead friends.
His life is made up of two warfares--one of cheating andcunning against the purchaser; the other of vexations and unreasonableness against the manufacturer.
It proceeded from his eye, and seemed to communicate with all his features, leaving the stamp of low cunning upon every one.
Upon which the cunning fellow hoped he had not been taken in; having certainly purchased them in the persuasion of reselling them, as a catch, to us.
Other arms had they none, for they were cunningand crafty.
Our enemy vile, Cunning Digby does smile, Is pleasèd at our mischance; He useth each wile Our fleets to beguile, And to check our commerce with France.
There yet be men, my masters," though the net that the trickster flings Lies wide on the land to its bitter shame, and his cunning parleyings Have deafened the ears of Justice, that was blind and slow of old.
Closing and closing, Nearer the redskins creep; With cunning disposing, With yell and with whoop (There are women shall weep!
David came home, and the old man received him with all the cordiality whichcunning folk can assume with an eye to business.
The little gray eyes, peering out from beneath thick eyebrows like bushes covered with snow, were agleam with the cunning of avarice that had extinguished everything else in the man, down to the very instinct of fatherhood.
Those eyes never lost their cunning even when disguised in drink.
So it came about that, all unwittingly, David owed his existence, commercially speaking, to the cunning schemes of his competitors.
They were not men who could be decoyed into the simplest or most cunning contrivances that Indian ingenuity could suggest, nor were they those who expected to spend a life of ease and enjoyment in the woods.
There are so many contrivances these cunning rascals devise for a white man's destruction, that one needs to have a schooling of years in their ways to understand them.
He had now reached the point where his most subtle powers ofcunning were called into requisition, yet thought not of hesitating.
Here the Indians exhibited their usual cunningand foresight.
They were cunning enough to know that what efforts might be made would be for her sake, while probably the negro would be left to himself.
Although he had been sometimes vexed and imposed upon, he had, altogether, passed a pleasant winter with the cunning old wolf, and now that he was gone, Manabozho was downcast and low in spirit.
Jew with cunning eyes, who had hidden behind his neighbour when Rapp glanced in his direction.
He looked her slowly up and down beneath his heavy eyebrows, his little cunning eyes alight with suspicion.
A certain cunning lay behind the happy laugh--a great capacity was hidden by the careless manner.
The cunning old Indian followed him to and fro, holding out a sea-otter skin to him at every turn, and pestering him to trade.
Above all these looms the fact, whatever may be the cause, that capital is becoming less and less in the hands of those who produce it, and is growing larger and larger in the hands of cunning or lucky exploiters.
If he came to a place where their web was stretched, he examined attentively the artistic texture; he saw the firmly fastened knot on the twig which held the web apart, the circular meshes, the cunning arrangement to catch the wandering fly.
French revolution, and with the same sacrilegious and despotic spirit, but with more cunning and method, prohibit religion itself.
He overcame their cunning by a superior wisdom which reduced them to silence and covered them with shame.
He was cunning enough to ask us three times his proper fare, and when we gave him half his demand seemed surprised at so much liberality.
But Dmitri had not the wisdom to keep what his cunning had won.
His greatest triumphs were achieved sitting in his palace in the Kremlin; and his weapons were found in a cunning and far-reaching diplomacy.
Their cunning was not of the vulgar sort which works for ends that are near; it was the cunning which could wait, could patiently cringe and feign loyalty and devotion, with the steady purpose of tearing in pieces.
They could meet cruelty with cruelty, cunning with cunning.
A queer look stole into Rachel Wiletzky's face, a look of cunning and determination and shrewdness.
Myrtle reached out a weary, graceful arm and touched one of the lacy piles adorned with cunning bows of pink and blue to catch the shopping eye.
Even when the highest point of finish is attained we cannot say that the hand is any morecunning than it was from the first.
But when Sterne the man is uppermost--when he is looking inward and not outward, contemplating his own feelings instead of those of his personages, his cunning fails him altogether.
Through the cunning craftiness and manifest hypocrisy of one Miss Hopkey, niece of the chief magistrate, and a lady of great external accomplishments, he came near being ruined.
But I hain't had any dinner," said the fellow, with a cunning leer.
The bulk of the figure assured him that it could be no ordinary raccoon, or even a cunning fox.
But just think, Josh," insinuated cunning Nick, "all this shaking would be the best thing ever for that indigestion of yours.
But their bold, impudent, cunning eyes betrayed them.
I do begin to believe that cunning Backus was nearer right than I had any idea of," he said to himself.
It wasn't a bad notion of this poor chap to get in there, but those infernal Navajos got away with him all the same--cunning devils that they are!
He had hoped to get Stephens into a loquacious mood and pump him over a few social drinks, but he was toocunning to show any trace of disappointment.
But that's their way; cruelty andcunning are bred in their bones.
His keen black eyes were turned on the other with a cunning inquisitiveness.
He looked like a fierce, cunning wolf hesitating whether to snap or to turn tail.
