For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman; tricks which they will have less need to practise in Louisiana bayous.
He manœuvred so cunningly that I could not get within half a dozen rods of him.
But Zeus laughed out loud to see his evil-plotting child well and cunningly denying guilt about the cattle.
But he had no suspicion whatever, and he fell into the trap, baited so cunningly by a woman’s wit.
Then the minstrels cunningly turned their themes to the Burkes of Mayo, English once, but Irish now--ay, even more Irish than the Irish themselves.
She had planned to bring him to this place beside her and had cunningly prepared against the possibility that he might put the full length of the couch between them if she settled herself in a corner.
Its maker named it a knife; as a matter of fact, the knife part was worthless; but snugly and cunningly fitted into the stout buckhorn handle was a serviceable file, a hacksaw, and a marlinespike.
From a source unseen, but cunningly selected to utilize wind and stream, fresh oil was poured on the water; the sides of the brigantine crackled and blistered with an overpowering stench of tar and oakum.
All these gratifications he received with demonstrations of infinite constraint and reluctance, and, in the midst of his rapacious extortion, acted so cunninglyas to impose himself upon both for a miracle of disinterested integrity.
The aguado is round, of great depth, measuring over 100 feet in width and cunningly hewn out of the rock.
His ships, which crowded the quays of Bristol, were a more evident source of wealth than anycunningly devised elixir except in the eyes of a disappointed dreamer.
I did not know that every rule in an English prison is cunningly devised to annoy and degrade the unfortunate prisoner.
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
As there was a want of plates, one of our party had cunningly appropriated to his own use that containing our scanty supply of eggs.
They were the invention of a very profound philosopher, who proposed to destroy his enemies without the effusion of blood, by cunningly sucking the breath out of their body.
Long, long has the Orient-Jew spun around his helplessness the cunningly enmeshed web of Talmud and Kabbala.
And the tree put forth treacherous boughs to strangle the Sower; his flesh was bruised and torn, but cunningly he disentangled the murderous knot and passed to the eastward.
Cunningly ensnared, Baited and trapped were we; their fierce monks yelled And thundered from our Synagogues, while flared The Cross above the Ark.
And behold, this tree likewise puts forth perfidious arms to strangle the Sower; but cunningly he disentangles the murderous knot and passes on.
Jewels were placed at her disposal, and dresses laid out cunningly suited to her complexion.
Had he been thinking of her, he might have touchedcunningly on her love for Italy.
This iteration, whethercunningly devised or not, had a charm for Emilia's ear.
He knows, no one better, of all the obstacles that have been placed in the way, so cunningly that no man could put a finger on the motive.
And you cannot think what an apt pupil she is in music; she plays some exercises very cunningly already, and she is learning French sentences.
On the rim of a shallow, saucer-like basin that lay cunningly concealed until one stood upon the very edge of it, Annie-Many-Ponies stopped again and stood looking out from under her spread palm.
On a farther slopecunningly placed by the scenic artist to catch the full sunlight of midday, the camp of the Chavez brothers gleamed softly in the magic light.
As a final tribute to that feminine instinct which knows no race she drew from some cunningly devised hiding place a small, cheap "vanity box," and proceeded very gravely to powder her nose.
Applehead's calves were branded, to the youngest pair of knock-kneed twins which Happy Jack found curled up together cunningly hidden in a thicket.
There are carved tusks from Africa and India, and quaint native curios made of ivory cunningly wrought.
There were intricate carvings of the Sheraton and Chippendale periods, and there were the wonderful floral sprays, cherubs, and other ornaments so cunningly wrought by Grinling Gibbons and his followers.
The Romans were lovers of roses, and had many charming rose bowers, curiously and cunningly formed.
The most extraordinary case in the annals of autograph forgery occurred in France--the country par excellence of cunningly devised facsimiles--on the eve of the Franco-Prussian War.
How cunningly were the wet, sliding waves accommodated to that smooth skin and those nerves which rioted in the play of the tumbling waters.
A screen of flowers had been cunningly placed by Rudolph between the cacti and that apartment.
And the force is so cunninglyconserved that it is returned to the earth, without any loss of magnetic power to the planet.
Contains a number of cunningly worked-out chromo lithographs, in which children and their domestic pets are grouped in a most artistic and effective manner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cunningly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
