He had his mother's face, and a covetousness and slyness of character prone to trivial intrigues, in which his father's instincts predominated.
There was much feline slyness in the depths of her little black eyes, which suggested gimlet holes.
Slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety.
A suspicion of the truth flashed into Violet's mind; but she put it resolutely from her; she would not believe Gracie capable of slynessand deceit.
Greatly excited, no doubt,' interposed Mr. Perker, with a look of slyness which was very likely accidental.
Never mind my eyes; you had much better read your letter,' said the pretty housemaid; and as she said so, she made the eyes twinkle with such slyness and beauty that they were perfectly irresistible.
Slyness is a very common characteristic among Ainu men; jealousy is recognised and frequent in women.
Slyness and jealousy are well marked in the Ainu face, and the former is seen in the glittering, restless eyes, the latter in the sulky glance and protruding mouth.
Slyness blinking through the watery eye of superannuation.
A pretty slyness crept into her face, showed in the curve of the young lips, in the expression of the young eyes.
Then Sebastiano drew from the inner pocket of his old jacket a little flute, smiling with an air of intense and comic slyness which contorted his face.
Their confidence must be tenderly won, and their innocent desires gratified, while every slyness is quietly shown to be as unavailing as it is disagreeable, and every movement towards ingenuousness cheerfully and lovingly encouraged.
Some children are certainly prone to slyness by nature; but there is no reason why, under a wise training, they should not be as honourable as the most ingenuous soul that ever was born.
She gave us full credit (I never could trace that she saw any discredit in deceit) for slyness in evading her authority, but flattered herself that her own superior slyness would maintain it in spite of us.
He candidly admits that Melanchthon, both before and after the Diet of Augsburg, owing to his weak and not entirely upright character, was repeatedly caught “having recourse to the subterfuges of a slyness not far removed from dissimulation.
The method by which he attempted to put his plans into execution displays nothing of greatness but rather that petty slyness which seeks to overreach opponents by the use of ambiguous words.
By no means undignified, the face presented that combination of slyness and jocundity which we are accustomed to imagine of the canonical jolly- dogs in mediaeval tales.
He appeared to be about sixty-five, and the dignified aspect which he wore to a gazer at a distance became depreciated to jocund slyness upon nearer view, when the small type could be read between the leading lines.
Beauchamp was not insensible to the slyness of the poke at him.
Greatly excited, no doubt," interposed Mr. Perker, with a look of slyness which was very likely accidental.
There was a momentary look of deep slyness in Job Trotter's eye as he said this, which ran a thrill through Mr. Weller's clenched fist as he burnt with a desire to make a demonstration on his ribs.
This was by engaging her privately as a mistress, which was at that time reputable enough at Rome, provided the affair was managed with an air of slyness and gravity, though the secret was known to the whole city.
Here she put on a little slynessof aspect, and seemed willing to submit to interruption.
She asked herself why she wished to, and said to herself that Miss Schley's slyness bored her.
London was captivated by the abnormal combination of snow and slyness which she presented to it, and began at once to make much of her.
You can be imitated by a cute little Yankee who has neither imagination nor brains, only the sort of slyness that is born out of the gutter.
Now it struck up an air that Yeovil had already heard whistled several times since his landing, an air with a captivating suggestion of slyness and furtive joyousness running through it.
The more I looked at her the surer I felt that I had never seen her before, though a smile of inexpressible slyness had begun to play about her lips.
That was only a piece of slyness to let you know I was to be married.
