But even in the moment of approaching triumph, the leader of the Goths was stillwily in purpose and moderate in action.
At Aquileia I learnt to bewily and watchful as you!
His wonder was still further increased by the excessive good humour of Garrofat and his wily brother Doola.
Garrofat and the wily Doola watching, meanwhile, with looks now filled with cunning, now with fear.
Hence our picket lines are doubly strong and vigilant, while every means is resorted to to ascertain the position, strength, and intention of our wily foe.
But the evil was not cured, as other roads more distant and better screened were followed by the wily foe.
But they were too wily to be caught in such a trap, and our attempt failed.
The latter of these regiments has but recently been mustered into the service, is poorly drilled and worse equipped, and is by no means fitted to picket against so wily a foe as Mosby.
Presently they began to write their ballots, and the wily Pigoult contrived to obtain a majority for Monsieur Mollot, the clerk of the court, and Monsieur Godivet, the registrar.
This plan at length he thought would best succeed, To execute it doubtless he had need Of ev'ry wily art he could devise, Surrounded as he was by eagle-eyes.
Truly," replied the wily Malespini, "this light collation was intended solely for his highness the Earl of Essex, who I hear must keep his room.
The words came easily from the mobile lips of the wily Beau Johnson.
The wily Johnson was not caught, though Fellows turned state's evidence and did all he could to have the professional netted in the same manner as himself.
While freely indulging his taste for literary occupations in his intervals of leisure, he performed the duties of his mission with an ability that fully vindicated his appointment as minister to the wily republic.
Better take your Apples with you, to compare them with the others," said the wily god, as she prepared to go.
Fair Sir Ganelon," said the wily heathen, "I did a rash and foolish thing when in anger I raised my hand to strike at thee.
This is what you must do," said the wily chief steward.
So this Trishka will go through villages and towns; and this Trishka will be a wily man; he will lead astray Christ's people .
Roderic was a wily man of war, and his wily fighting taught Alpin to be wise and to guard well his bare head, for it was ever at his head that Roderic aimed.
The wily Sorcerer willingly assents, And farther in the sands, Elate of heart, he leads the credulous youth.
The wily woman listened, and required A previous price, the knowledge of the name[72] Of God.
All eagerly the Boy Watches the Traveller's lips, And still the wily man With seemly kindness to the eager Boy Directs his winning tale.
Such were some of the reasonings which the wily peer revolved in his mind, and to whose aid a fortunate accident had in some measure contributed.
I shall not readily forget the sweet, sad smile of the King as he tapped the wily courtier on the shoulder, and said, 'Ah!
Lord Netherby's eyes met Darcy's, and the wily peer smiled with a significance that seemed to say, "I know you now.
Lord Netherby's wilytemptation was made manifest, not the less palpably, perhaps, because the reader was himself involved in the very same scheme.
No, Mr. Heffernan; I have come a hundred and fifty miles with an object, and not all the wily dexterity of even you shall balk me.
The wily Massachusettensis thinks our present calamity is to be attributed to the bad policy of a popular party, whose measures, whatever their intentions were, have been opposite to their profession, the public good.
It was the whole occupation of this little creature to destroy those wilyand ravenous monsters.
The governor," says our wily writer, "could do little or nothing without the council, by the charter.
Various events occurred which enabled thiswily Minister, first to delay, and then almost to prevent, the odious surrender.
The size of the French armada and the warnings which Toussaint received from Europe induced that wily dictator to adopt stringent precautionary measures.
Not precisely dissolute, rather disorganized, the life of Adam could be transformed into an object sermon by the wilyeducator and moral-monger.
In this letter we detect the artful arrangement of its matter, making Lord Herbert’s real mission secondary to some private business of his own, to the forwarding of which the wily monarch solicits the kind offices of his minister.
Not alone were the Marquis and Lord Herbert deceived by the machinations of the wily monarch, but so likewise were the whole Roman Catholic community.
By some secret hand—whether of indiscreet friend or wily foe was never known—one of the placards was attached to the door of the king’s private chamber.
The youth thus sent forth were exposed to temptation, they witnessed vice, they encountered Satan’s wily agents, who urged upon them the most subtle heresies and the most dangerous deceptions.
It is expedient for us,” said the wily Caiaphas, “that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
Thus Zwingle maintained the battle with his wily antagonists.
But those who fear and reverence God meet this Heaven-daring assumption as Christ met the solicitations of the wily foe: “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.
Well knew the wily preacher that the second part of the service would not be prolonged.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
