The Honourable Brush and many of his associates, barons and earls, albeit the shrewdest of men, did not know exactly how to take the son of Hilary Vane.
I have heard my father say," she continued, still maintaining her steady glance, "that Hamilton Tooting is one of the shrewdest politicians he has ever known.
Among the hoofed and horned animals of North America the white- tailed deer is the shrewdest in the recognition of its enemies, the wisest in the choice of cover, and in measures for self- preservation.
The Florida crocodile is the shrewdest species of all those I know personally.
But one of Jackson's shrewdest supporters, probably Clinton, started the scheme for transferring the choice of the electors from the legislature to the voters.
He was certainly one of the shrewdest and most unprejudiced men whom one can imagine .
Even theshrewdest amongst us are always fools about the things which concern ourselves.
They have the shrewdest lawyers in the country, and they get away legally with things that are flagrantly illegal, such as freezing out competitors, stealing patents, and the like.
As soon as they were seated at the table she turned to her father, a clean-cut, gray-haired man of fifty, known as one of the shrewdest attorneys in the city.
Then came that new thing, Industry, which expanded to a degree unguessed by the shrewdest prophets and analysts.
He has tricked some of the shrewdest men in the world.
The shrewdestpolice officers in Europe have never been able to cope with him.
Judge Robertson was one of the shrewdest and ablest of the Republican politicians in the State of New York.
Cassini was one of the shrewdest and ablest of diplomats in the Russian service.
But it is singular how intense partisanship will blind the ablest and shrewdest politicians.
He had a just horror of Amani as an impostor, but he had no conception of the power he derived from his misdirected abilities, for Amani was one of the shrewdest of his race, and possessed an evil influence over his chief.
But this is the testimony of an Illinois political wire-puller to Lincoln: "He was one of the shrewdest politicians in the State.
About Alington's ability he had found no two opinions; extensive inquiries showed him that on all hands he was considered the shrewdest of the shrewd.
There followed a sketch of Braceway which was enough to convince the readers that in him Mr. Withers had called into the case the shrewdest man in the South, "very probably the shrewdest man in the entire country.
You are a fool, and the time is not far distant when you yourself will realize this; when you will learn that you have become the unwitting dupe of one of the shrewdest and most diabolical scoundrels that ever drew breath.
Gladstone, who had many opportunities to gauge Kruger's skill in diplomacy, referred to him as the shrewdest politician on the continent of Africa, and not a mean competitor of those of Europe.
He had always his wise old mother at his elbow, the shrewdest and most disinterested adviser that any princeling was ever blessed with.
No, there is no need to ask forgiveness, but let me tell you something: this little game they are playing is one of the shrewdest tricks ever attempted.
One thing is certain: they are theshrewdest rascals that ever defied the whole detective force of the United States, and I have great hopes that you can succeed where we have all failed.
I defy the very shrewdest to say that they could detect one trait of anxiety or discomposure about her; so that, though I saw Mrs. D.
It has always seemed to me that a London cabman is about theshrewdest of the human race, but this specimen struck me as looking like the shrewdest of the cabmen.
The shrewdest of men would have found it difficult enough to realise his aims, and of shrewdness he had not a particle.
Henry was at least to be accounted the shrewdest ruler amongst the very astute princes who were more or less his contemporaries.
He would have liked one of those veterans of diplomacy versed in the old-fashioned ways and knaveries of German courts, and whose shrewdest ideas of a subtle policy are centred in a few social spies and a 'Cabinet Noir.
For some years Mr. Sander, so to speak, hovered round it, employing his shrewdest and most diplomatic agents.
But the shrewdest of those very shrewd men who conduct the business all look for a rise.
It may seem to be strange that some of the best and shrewdest friends of negroes in the Southern States at the present time are ex-slave-owners.
He was a keen-witted lad; but the shrewdest of seers could not have foreseen that he would develop into the man of hope whom the negroes, after their coming emancipation, would most sorely need.
It was one of Lincoln's shrewdest political acts, and was brought about by the tender, in an autograph letter, of the French Mission to Bennett.
McClellan was no politician, while the President was the shrewdestof political diplomats.
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