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Sentences ending with cunning

His countenance expressed the utmost degree of ferocity and cunning. [6]
The boss said that I overdid it sometimes and made them too bright instead of 'just cunning. [4]
Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning. [5]
These preliminaries disposed of, he applied himself to teaching her the game, which she soon learnt tolerably well, being both sharp-witted and cunning. [12]
But the descendants of these privileged persons hold the same positions when they are neither strong, nor wise, nor very cunning. [4]
Paula had betrayed him in spite of her promise, and how mean was her woman's cunning! [10]
But the remark had exactly the opposite effect, Bijah screwing up his face into an expression of extraordinary secrecy and cunning. [9]
There must have been not only a selection, but an election, not by ballot, but by consent some way expressed, and the privileged persons got their positions because they were the strongest, or the wisest, or the most cunning. [4]

Sentences containing cunning two or more times

If I wanted to meet his cunning with cunning I should get the worst of it, for he is far superior to me in intrigue. [10]
In this question he saw subtle cunning, as men of his type see cunning in everything, so he frowned and did not answer immediately. [2]

More example sentences with the word cunning in them

The cunning woman would have perceived his purpose and betrayed it to the Regent. [10]
This was said with no appearance of cunning or deceit, but with an unsuspicious frankness that bore the impress of truth. [12]
When Kendricks came with Beaton to call after her father's dinner, she used all her cunning to ensnare him, and she had him to herself as long as Beaton stayed; Dryfoos sent down word that he was not very well and had gone to bed. [8]
You looked for wile, for cunning, for self-seeking,--and they were not there. [9]
This time he went straight to the window, looked at it, tried the stanchions, and then, with an amused attempt at being cunning and hiding his own vigilance, he asked me, with laborious hypocrisy, if I had seen Captain Lancy pass the window. [11]
I know him well, and I am sure that though he is cunning indeed, he is full of true veneration, and will righteously establish us in the rights which we have inherited. [10]
The first prize was a most cunning half-grown silver bugle, and mighty pretty, with red silk cord and tassels. [5]
But they were wary, alert, cunning, and they knew their country well. [5]
The lean parchment visage had the hunted look of the incorrigible failure, had written on it self-indulgence, cunning, and uncertainty. [11]
It is harder to fight against cunning weakness than against honest enmity. [10]
What magnificent qualities they had, in battle or strategy, and how cunning and shrewd was their generalship! [9]
In reply to the last interrogation, the small servant, with a look of infinite cunning mingled with fear, screwed up her mouth very tight and round, and nodded violently. [12]
I don't say that she will do the same thing twice alike, like a Chinaman, but she is most cunning in suiting herself to circumstances. [4]
She realized his talent, and it almost made her forget his cunning and his loathsomeness. [11]
Nothing distinguished the Syrian from a thousand of his fellows but the cunning stamped on his sharply-cut features; still, the great Magian seemed to hold him in some esteem, for he readily replied to the little man's questions and remarks. [10]
Forthwith his natural suspicion leaped up, and the cunning of the monomaniac was upon him. [11]
She feigned all sorts of odd symptoms, and showed a wonderful degree of cunning in giving an appearance of truth to them. [6]
The same slender shape, the same cunning, fierce look, smoothed over with a plausible air. [6]
It is, however, possible that the success of the common rat may be due to its having possessed greater cunning than its fellow- species, before it became associated with man. [1]
One day Joan played a cunning truck on her jailer, and not only slipped out of her prison, but locked him up in it. [5]
In this world one has to be cunning and cruel. [2]
When he considered on what a spare allowance of food she lived, how neglected and untaught she was, and how her natural cunning had been sharpened by necessity and privation, he scarcely doubted it. [12]
Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you. [7]
He relied chiefly on his own reckless obstinacy--which he liked to call firm determination--Nemu's cunning, and the love-philter. [10]
With the cunning of the monomaniac he realised that an attack now might frustrate his great stroke. [11]
By the law of the Church--she being a minor under twenty-one--it was her right to have counsel to conduct her case, advise her how to answer when questioned, and protect her from falling into traps set by cunning devices of the prosecution. [5]
Woman is one of the ablest and most cunning creatures who have ever mingled in human affairs. [4]
There is none of that cunning in his eye that all of us noticed in Louis Napoleon's. [5]
It is made of deerskin, dyed by a strange process which turned it white, and doctored by some cunning medicine. [11]
A look combined of cunning, fear and servility crossed Krool's face, but he said, morosely: "The Baas--I will do what I like. [11]
Thus, the attorney of Bevis Marks sat, and wrote, and hummed, for a long time, except when he stopped to listen with a very cunning face, and hearing nothing, went on humming louder, and writing slower than ever. [12]
Master Gridley did not like playing the part of a spy, but it must be remembered that he was an old college officer, and had something of the detective's sagacity, and a certain cunning derived from the habit of keeping an eye on mischievous students. [6]
But he did not begin to work at once; he only tried whether his fingers had not lost their cunning, and whether the yielding material was obedient to his will. [10]
Scarce had the myrmidons of Michael Paw attained the front of battle, when the Swedes, instructed by the cunning Risingh, leveled a shower of blows full at their tobacco-pipes. [4]
My poems are mere Cairngorms, wrought up, perhaps, with a cunning hand, and may pass well in the market as long as Cairngorms are the fashion; but they are mere Scotch pebbles, after all. [4]
The most cunning man could not have crept into her confidence more successfully, evoking memories of the best times of her youth and showing sympathy with them. [2]
This cunning paper made him responsible for heaps of things. [5]
But let him look closer, and he finds nothing but deep corruption, foul cunning, despicable self-seeking, and atrocious faithlessness! [10]
It could drive lathes, drills, planers, punches, polishers, in a word all the cunning machines of a great factory? [5]
For at first it had been a reckless determination to achieve something at any cost, and now it resolved itself into an adventure worthy of all his reason and cunning, and keenness of eye and ear. [13]
With a woman's involuntary loving cunning she, who till then had not shown any alarm, said that she would die of fright if they did not leave that very night. [2]
The very cunning in the face of the peasants is that of the fox; it is a sort of instinct, and not an intelligent suspicion. [4]
I saw him in a sudden flash as a cunning, cruel bird of prey, a gorged, drab vulture with beady eyes, a resemblance so extraordinary that I wondered I had never remarked it before. [9]
He had made himself hated on the ship--having none of the cunning tact of Bucklaw. [11]
My brother knows him, he's dined with him--the present Emperor--more than once in Paris, and tells me he never met a more cunning or subtle diplomatist--you know, a combination of French adroitness and Italian play-acting! [2]
Low foreheads and heavy faces they all had; some had a look of animal cunning, while the most were only stupid. [5]
He seemed to hear the Alexandrians laughing at the forsaken bridegroom, to see them pointing the finger of derision at the man whom cunning woman had deceived even before marriage. [10]
May my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if ever I prove false to those teachings. [7]
How cunning these half-hysteric young persons are, to be sure! [6]
There was a fox-like cunning in the face and the sharp little eyes, and also alertness and malice. [5]
Horror, aversion, loathing for that man to whom everything but power, cruelty, and cunning, was as nothing, left no room for fear or pity, or even the least shade of self-reproach for having aroused in him a desire which she could not gratify. [10]
Yet he fulfilled every order precisely according to directions, and possessed his full share of the cunning which is often a characteristic of narrow minds. [10]
On his New England side he was cunning and calculating, always cautious, measuring his distance before he risked his stroke, as nicely as if he were throwing his lasso. [6]
At this the emperor wrathfully asked him whether his opinion had been invited; and the cunning Egyptian said to himself that Caracalla was anxious to spare the father and his sons for the daughter's sake. [10]
Mona nodded almost eagerly now, for come of a subtle, social world far away, she still was no match for the subtlety of the wilds--or was it the cunning the wild things know? [11]
First, she had down from the garret a capacious trunk, of solid wood, but covered with leather, and adorned with brass-headed nails, by the cunning disposition of which, also, the paternal initials stood out on the rounded lid, in the most conspicuous manner. [6]
A vein of diorite of iron-hardness lay at its foot like a green ribbon, and below this there opened a small round cavern, hollowed and arched by the cunning hand of nature. [10]
He had his desire: with base and cunning calculation he left us but thirty thousand, knowing we would try to increase it, and ruin our life and break our hearts. [5]
With a madman's cunning, Makar Alexeevich eyed the Frenchman, raised his pistol, and took aim. [2]
Dick was pretty cunning, as old Sophy had said, and, whether or not he had any means of knowing Elsie's private intentions, watched her closely, and was on his guard against accidents. [6]
But it's a cunning devil, is that machine!--and knows more than any man that ever lived. [5]
Who devised that cunning and beautiful mechanism, a man's hand? [5]
He was too cunning and acute to be a gossip, but by direct and indirect ways he made every person feel that the Cure and the Lord might forgive their pasts, but he could never forget them, nor wished to do so. [11]
There was no cruelty in the nature of Patience, and she made prisoners of neither birds nor squirrels, but cunning cages here and there held most lifelike counterfeits of their willing captives. [4]
This spy, whose cruelty and cunning were universally feared, might do him a serious mischief, and he therefore did not tell his sister, to whom the name of Zminis was well known, who the listener was. [10]
Indeed, the ugly creature contrived by some means or other--whether by his ugliness or his ferocity or his natural cunning is no great matter--to impress with a wholesome fear of his anger, most of those with whom he was brought into daily contact and communication. [12]
No one else could have found a place in the great books which she filled with her records; but to her they were so clear that the craft of the most cunning was put to shame when she looked into them. [10]
Yet Pierre's cunning consisted simply in finding pleasure in drawing out the human qualities of the embittered, hard, and (in her own way) proud princess. [2]
Had she attempted concealment, or tried to extricate herself from her awkward position by cunning, she would have spoiled her case by acknowledging herself guilty. [2]
A desperate cunning came to my aid. [9]
Who would have believed that the silent, dreamy lad had so much presence of mind, and such cunning powers of invention? [10]
The influence had been insidious, delicate, cunning, and he himself was only "a voice crying in the wilderness," without the simple creed of that voice. [11]
It seems to be a brutal, barbarous cunning power now that I've seen it at close range. [9]
In this contest, as you know, all that otherwise would be falsehood, treachery, and cunning, puts on the bright aspect of light and truth. [10]
Old Sophy was as cunning as a red fox or a gray woodchuck. [6]
He's as cunning as a fox, and the police are compelled to obey him. [10]
Zminis strove to appear mild by assuming servile humility; but this so ill became his cunning features that Caracalla saw with secret satisfaction that he could accede to Melissa's wishes, and confirm the choice of the high-priest, in whose god he had placed his hopes. [10]
This time, cunning and patience are rewarded. [4]
Her government is all there; all in that deceptively innocent-looking little book, that cunning little devilish book, that slumbering little brown volcano, with hell in its bowels. [5]
All the labour, all the care and cunning, all the stealthy planning to get ahead of others had been in vain! [9]
Therefore, it was a relief to vex his heart with a picture of the riches the old man hoarded, and to expatiate on his cunning in removing himself even beyond the reach of importunity. [12]
Now, there is a great deal of truth in the assertion that, whatever the form of government, the ablest men, or the strongest, or the most cunning in the nation, will rule. [4]

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