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Sentences starting with shrewd

Shrewd country delegates who had listened to the Champion's speeches and had come to the capital prepared to vote for purity, had been observing the movements since yesterday, of Mr. Tooting and Mr. Wading with no inconsiderable interest. [9]
Shrewd observation there is indeed, but its strength is in broad generalization and epigrammatic characterizations. [6]
Shrewd rogue that he was, he well knew that I would not risk the attack a disappointment might bring my grandfather. [9]
Shrewd Egyptians, who had divined His existence and shrouded His image with monstrous shapes, born of their own thoughts and imaginations, had drawn a thick veil over Him, hidden Him from the masses. [10]

Sentences ending with shrewd

He thought, as he ate, of his son's beautiful work, and the foolish self-importance of Argutis, so faithful, and usually, it must be owned, so shrewd. [10]

Short sentences using shrewd

He is shrewd enough. [4]
You are shrewd and steadfast. [10]

More example sentences with the word shrewd in them

Andreas followed her, with the leech, a man of middle height, whose shrewd and well-formed head, bald but for a little hair at the sides, was set on a somewhat ungainly body. [10]
Billy watched him with shrewd, hunted eyes. [11]
The shrewd clergyman, whose creed could be lax enough on occasion, had provided himself with authorities of all kinds to meet these awkward questions in casuistical divinity. [6]
But the Dutchmen were too shrewd to be caught, and Powhatan sent a conciliatory message that he did not detain the Dutchmen, nor hinder the slaying of them. [4]
However, as it was, she submitted to it, for she saw that it was shrewd, and she would have called the wisest physician on earth to her lover's bedside if she had had the power. [10]
Among their number was Archias, Daphne's father, a man of middle height and comfortable portliness, from whose well-formed, beardless face looked forth a pair of shrewd eyes, and whose quick movements revealed the slight irritability of his temperament. [10]
Everybody said he was a very shrewd doctor indeed, and knew perfectly what people's constitutions were; which there appears some reason to suppose he did. [12]
He is a very shrewd and garrulous fellow. [2]
His position was undisputed, for the Street believed with the world in the magnitude of that fortune, though there were shrewd operators who said that Mavick had more chicane but not a tenth part of the ability of Rodney Henderson. [4]
But the helpless town-bred damsel declined this friendly invitation; for her shrewd little head had devised another plan for saving her brother, though the tavern-keepers, to whom she confided it in a whisper, laughed and shook their heads over it. [10]
He was likewise too shrewd to be dragged into political discussions at the boarding-house table. [9]
Venters sullenly acquiesced to the idea that the rider had been too quick and too shrewd for him. [13]
It is full three months since I sent the shrewd and handsome Count Detzin on his devilish mission to my brother's daughter Constance. [5]
What magnificent qualities they had, in battle or strategy, and how cunning and shrewd was their generalship! [9]
He had all the vanity of a man who had been a success in a small, shrewd, culpable way--had he not evaded the law for thirty years with his whiskey-still? [11]
A smile which the priests of lower rank who surrounded his litter knew not how to interpret, flitted over his shrewd, defiant countenance. [10]
Then, whereas in the middle of the past century all towns were forbid by imperial law to hold tournaments, he went to Court, and had been dubbed knight by the Emperor Charles, and won fame and honor by many a shrewd lance-thrust. [10]
If I decline the honor of being with you, believe me..." A shrewd, kindly, yet subtly derisive expression lit up Kutuzov's podgy face. [2]
Her silence revealed the fact to the shrewd woman that she had not intervened a day too soon. [4]
The moments of suspense were trying to his nerves, and he had a shrewd notion that this making men wait was a favourite manoeuvre of Eldon Parr's; nor had he underrated the benumbing force of that personality. [9]
But one cold Sunday afternoon, as I made my way, in answer to her invitation, to see Nancy Willett, I found myself wondering idly whether she might not be by way of making a shrewd guess as to the object of Hambleton's affections. [9]
And as he stood, the flute in his hands, his thoughts took flight to his Uncle Benn, whose kindly, shrewd face and sharp brown eyes were as present to him, and more real, than those of Luke Claridge, whom he saw every day. [11]
Only when he stood quite close to her, did she raise her shrewd, twinkling eyes, and cry out: "A lucky day! [10]
We dined with some hospitable Gentiles; and visited the foundation of the prodigious temple; and talked long with that shrewd Connecticut Yankee, Heber C. Kimball (since deceased), a saint of high degree and a mighty man of commerce. [5]
He was so shrewd, so keen, so full of practical sense, and so good-humored as long as things went on to his liking, that few could resist his fascination. [6]
He had the shrewd, humorous outlook upon life characteristic of the best type of New England farmer, and Victoria got along with him famously. [9]
They were very shrewd, but it had not occurred to them to give the best pews to the sitters able to pay the most money for them. [4]
Our kindly, polite, shrewd, and humorous old neighbor, who in former days has served the town as constable and auctioneer, and who bids fair to become the oldest inhabitant of the city, was there when I was born, and is living there to-day. [6]
I will be shrewd, and buy an accident ticket. [5]
Iras is a shrewd woman, and will be glad if she can keep aloof from such trifles during the time which will decide the fate of Cleopatra and of the world. [10]
McAndrews had a shrewd suspicion that neither Mrs. [9]
And Philip," the shrewd old gentleman went on, turning to my cousin, "do not let thy father or any other make thee believe there cannot be two sides to every question. [9]
I had a shrewd notion that he had run with the others. [9]
The old selfish, shrewd look was again in his eyes. [11]
The advice was shrewd for a metropolitan editor, and it was not without its profit to the country editor. [4]
There they are shrewd enough to create new gods, which start up out of the earth like mushrooms. [10]
For she was shrewd and capable of reasoning, and above all--and from this he hoped the most--she was but a woman. [10]
But the barrister shook his head and said that Grafton was too shrewd a rogue to tender me an estate if he feared me. [9]
The market was set up beyond the Alphaeus, and there traders from all parts of the world were to be seen; Greeks, Carthaginians, Lydians, Phrygians and shrewd Phoenicians from Palestine settled weighty business transactions, or offered their goods to the public from tents and booths. [10]
This is, beyond question, a bold and presumptuous doubt, inasmuch as many distinguished characters, called men of the world, long-headed customers, knowing dogs, shrewd fellows, capital hands at business, and the like, have made, and do daily make, this axiom their polar star and compass. [12]
But the once proud and shrewd rulers of France, feeling that their part is played out, are even more bewildered than he, and do not say the words they should have said to destroy him and retain their power. [2]
Its professors and practitioners are usually shrewd people; they are very serious with the public, but wink and laugh a good deal among themselves. [6]
The shrewd old practitioner suspected that love was at the bottom of the young lady's malady. [6]
They were all philosophers of the shrewd sort, and they all had humor. [4]
Scarcely had he opened his mouth when one of the senators, a man without a tooth in his head, with a shrewd though angry expression, standing near the first speaker, interrupted him. [2]
The thrifty, shrewd old woman still walked about a good deal, and kept her eye on the neighborhood. [4]
A shrewd British officer who knew the Indian character, took that characteristic into account in laying his plans for the capture of Eugene Sue's famous Feringhea. [5]
In fact none of the priests contradicted him; and, though Evagrius looked at him with a doubting shake of his shrewd head, Cynegius on the other hand nodded assent. [10]
The wise men of the past, and the shrewd men of our own time, who warned us of the calamities in store for our nation, never doubted what was the cause which was to produce first alienation and finally rupture. [6]
To the hour of its coming he had been of shrewd and humourous disposition. [11]
A shrewd observer of human nature, he had little respect for Senator Billings. [9]
He had lost nothing of his wonderfully clear and shrewd wit; nevertheless, I was not so much at my ease with him as of old time. [10]
But age had not impaired the brightness of her eyes, nor the limberness of her tongue, nor her shrewd good sense. [4]
His eyes could not be called either large or bright; but how kindly, how earnest, shrewd and, when an amusing thought passed through his mind, how mischievous they could look! [10]
They neither understood nor valued his special knowledge and his shrewd observations: they didn't even like his shrill voice; his quaint talk bored them. [4]
And I have no doubt," the shrewd old gentleman added, "that when Patty grows up she will be going to the assemblies, though it was not so in my time. [9]
During Orion's absence, Nilus, the head of the exchequer, a shrewd and judicious Egyptian, had generally represented his invalid master; but on the present occasion Orion was appointed to take his place, and to preside over the assembly. [10]
And yet if my easily persuadable brother governed at Alexandria, I believe the shrewd priests might succeed in stamping him as a worshipper of that magnified schoolmaster, who punishes his untutored brood with fire and torment. [10]
He was a mighty fat man, with a short brick-red neck, cropped grey hair, and a round, well-favored countenance, with shrewd little eyes which stood out from his head. [10]
But what struck March was the fact that Dryfoos seemed furtively conscious of being a country person, and of being aware that in their meeting he was to be tried by other tests than those which would have availed him as a shrewd speculator. [8]
He has planned many a shrewd stroke, and is devoted to his mistress. [10]
In dress and manner his appearance was that of the shrewd city capitalist--quiet and determined, who is neither to be deceived nor bullied. [4]
The shrewd old man listened to the father's story, his explanations of possibilities, of probabilities, of dangers, of hopes. [6]
I heard shrewd mammas speak of certain young men as good "catches" because they possessed such-and-such a number of votes. [5]
Suddenly, the financier launched forth on a series of shrewd and searching questions about Bremerton, its church, its people, its industries, and social conditions. [9]
No one ever knew how it was that the mill took fire, but there was one man who had more than a shrewd suspicion, though there was no occasion for mentioning it. [11]
How dry it is with scholastic labor, how keen with shrewd scepticism, how worldly-wise, how conscious of its owner's wide-awake sagacity! [6]
She liked this incisive, shrewd, plain-spoken man--often indeed sharp and abrupt in his freedom--and he appreciated her bright, natural ways. [10]
He was shrewd in the detection of trickery, and very confident in those who had once passed the ordeal of his well-schooled observing powers. [6]
I advised him in many ways, for he was more bold than shrewd, and I made him promise that he would not tell Clark or the others that I was to make trial to go with them. [11]
But the poetical illusion about an English May,-- "Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-Maying,"-- and all that, received a shrewd thrust. [6]
In hiring a horse from a Kanaka, you must have all your eyes about you, because you can rest satisfied that you are dealing with a shrewd unprincipled rascal. [5]
The thought that his wife should ever be required to honor this handicraftsman, if only as a step-father, and that he should hear himself addressed by him as "Son," was too shrewd a thrust. [10]
Far from rousing his opposition by reproaches, the shrewd uncle won his affection and merely sowed in his mind, by apt remarks, the seeds which in due time would grow and bear their fruit. [10]
The Cure shook his head doubtfully; he did not see the need; he did not believe in Medallion's whim; still he knew that the man's judgment was shrewd in most things, and he would be silent and wait. [11]
Duty had commanded him to mount his steed, but how pale and haggard was his shrewd face, usually so animated! [10]
Arsinoe had surrounded herself with a court of her own, managed by the eunuch Ganymedes, an experienced commander, and at the same time a shrewd adviser, wholly devoted to her interest. [10]
If everybody about here was so honestly and sincerely afraid of Merlin's pretended magic as Clarence was, certainly a superior man like me ought to be shrewd enough to contrive some way to take advantage of such a state of things. [5]
The leading doctor here is a shrewd, sensible man, but not versed in the curiosities of medical literature. [6]
Want should drive her from the world, and, to hasten her flight, the shrewd adept in reading human nature showed her in the distance the abbess's cross, and tried thereby to arouse her ambition. [10]
He had thought her a shrewd and kind-hearted woman, and it now struck him that she must certainly have been in the right when she accused Marcus of designs on her pretty niece. [10]
Harry, who thought he was shrewd and understood Washington, suggested an interest. [5]
At that time he was probably scarcely forty years old, short in stature and very erect, with a shrewd face whose features indicated an iron sternness of character, an impression heightened by the thick, bushy brows which met above his nose. [10]
The shrewd fellow had discovered the truth, for after Seitz Siebenburg had wandered about in the open air during the storm, he again tried to see his wife. [10]
If a shrewd fellow supposed that this sheep would not know A from B, he'll soon give him nuts to crack which are far too hard for many a learned master of arts. [10]
Here she was faced by it now in the broad open day: a plain, hard statement, unrelieved by aught save the humour of the shrewd eyes bent upon her. [11]
They were shrewd eyes, however, and proved that Mr. Meader had possession of the five senses--nay, of the six. [9]
Parfaite beguiled the evening with tales of the north, always interesting to Lawless; to which Shon added many a shrewd word of humour--for he had recovered quickly from his first timidity in the presence of the stranger. [11]
I was shrewd enough to make all offices connected with the passenger service places of high and distinguished honor. [5]
He was well educated, and from his portrait a shrewd observer might divine in him a genteel taste for literature. [9]
I could more easily count with my blind eyes the cells in a honeycomb than refute with my bewildered brain even one shrewd objection. [10]
Then, if a doubt arose in his mind or he could not trust his own memory and judgment, he knocked at the wall, and his shrewd and experienced friend was at all times ready to help him to the best of his knowledge and opinion. [10]
Some shrewd old doctors have a few phrases always on hand for patients that will insist on knowing the pathology of their complaints without the slightest capacity of understanding the scientific explanation. [3]
But if they do learn anything they will be shrewd enough not to enrich me with it. [10]
And yet he could not tell Jethro that he knew nothing about her, for he was shrewd enough to perceive the drift of the next question. [9]
The crime was committed with cool and shrewd foresight, and carried through to the end. [10]
Rising from his chair and bowing, he said, with shrewd foreknowledge of the effect of his words: "I had not before thought my own name of such consequence. [11]
The shrewd curbstone broker may climb to a seat in the Stock Exchange; quite as often a lord of the Board, a commander of millions, may be reduced to the seedy watcher of the bulletin-board in a bucket-shop. [4]
It is the belief of some shrewd observers that editorials, the long editorials, are not much read, except by editors themselves. [4]
Moreover, he had been too shrewd to deny what Colonel Clark would have denied in a soberer moment,--that St. Gre and Nick had gone to New Orleans. [9]

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