Aha, D'Ormea, not a shrewder scheme than this In your repertory?
Such timely treatment of the offending root Might strike the simple as wise husbandry, But swift sure extirpation would scarce suit Shrewder observers.
Alongside his work: which gives warranty Of shrewdervision in the workman--judge!
The shrewder among the Indian leaders foresaw the time when they would have to fight and overwhelm the intruders or submit to their hunting grounds being spoiled by the white man.
Shrewder men were quick to see the mistake and to take advantage of any circumstance to prevent it.
I fancy Jane Austen was stronger, sharper and shrewder than Charlotte Bronte; I am quite certain she was stronger, sharper and shrewder than George Eliot.
Thereupon the shrewder man tied his horse and stole noiselessly to a point from whose dense shade he could see a short piece of the road and the house standing out in the moonlight.
His modest yet sturdy self-regard would not even yet let him see that he had been only a cover for the underground doublings of shrewder men.
Oriente of filipino masonry, a deluded fanatic, a man of but scarce intellectual endowments, an instrument of those who knew more and were shrewder than he.
Consequently the business would decay or fall into the hands of others shrewder or more fortunate.
The capitalist class, far shrewderthan the feudalistic rulers, dispenses with personally equipped armed force.
As for me, I believe she has a much shrewder eye to the main chance.
It implied--though it might be but one of Love's shrewder discords--such suspected traitorous dealing of a man with their sister woman as makes the world of women all woman toward her.
Plutus is even shrewderthan a Wall Street broker, and has a sharp eye to his own profits.
She is closer than sealing wax, and shrewder than a serpent.
Your brother Simon is a shrewder man; he has been to school at Kolozsvar.
Benjamin Vajdar, black with guilt as he knew himself to be, chose the shrewdercourse of remaining in Vienna and calmly going about his business, with all the outward confidence of spotless innocence.
For my captain was shrewder than I, and held arts of measurement in reserve against me.
The turbulent English mobs, clamouring for war, were shrewder than Walpole, shrewder than Burke, for they knew that to an island and trading people outlets for their commerce were matters of sheer necessity.
But Baranhov had fourteen years more of good service in him, and rescued the Company from insolvency again and again, nor ever played into the hands of marauding foreigners; with brain on fire he was shrewder than the soberest.
No signs at all, unless for the first time in their lives the Indians are shrewder than the Long Knives.
The shrewdersort suspected he would split it up into two or three separate offerings, to give an air of inexhaustible largess.
The shrewder sort were right and wrong, as is their habit.
That he will say: 'I thought Rustem was a shrewder man and had a better heart.
Putting you out of the question, who is there here that is shrewder or stronger than I?
Helen flushed with pleasure, but Mrs. Markham, shrewder and keener, said nothing.
Shrewder far than I, he saw the great advantage of knowing the worst, of at last thoroughly understanding Hunter and Inglesby and the motives which moved them.
Keener, shrewder far than any of us, no one, save I alone, guessed the part it pleased him to play.
But there were, both in England and France, shrewder and more far-seeing men than he, who realised from the first that the new state of affairs could not possibly be a lasting one, but must lead either to union or complete separation.
Galloway, than whom no man was shrewder judge of men, showed in his gratified eyes and voice, long before he had finished, how strongly his conviction of Norman's high ability was confirmed.
Tetlow, and it was plain to the shrewder young lawyer that the less shrewd young lawyer wished to gain time.
The old pot has sustained many a shrewder whack than a tumble on the floor.
Both knew that this engagement would be a fight to the finish; and both felt reasonably sure that a shrewder and braver commander than Panounia was against them.
Sidwell cast frequent glances at her brother, in whom a shrewder eye could have divined conflict of feelings--disgust at the glorification of Chilvers and involuntary pleasure in the successive defeats of his own conqueror in Philosophy.
I mean,' replied the young man, with his shrewder smile, 'that they are not exactly the companions a theological student would select.
On my life, this feeble-minded favourite is as base as shrewder men.
Nay, Clarke is the shrewder of the two," replied his brother.
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