I was nettled by this sly cunning of the workmen who hookwinked the Indian's pale Father at Washington.

As we approached the Indians, their leader, an old man apparantly about sixty years of age, with a singularly cunning and wicked looking countenance, came towards us and extended his hand for a shake; while, with much solemnity, he announced himself as Cuchillo, a Comanche chief, and a great friend of the whites.

Telling truth shames him, and resistance makes him fly: But to attempt outwitting him, is to fight him at his own weapon, and consequently no cunning at all.

I went to see actors in the boxes, so consummately cunning, that the others did not know they were acting, and they did not suspect it themselves.

Both have a continually cunning eye on their driver, ready to stop the moment he pauses.

Fury everywhere raged and the cowardly cunning of weakness.

You judged more accurately, for you always said that 'he was a damned cunning fellow!'

Birds are exceedingly cunning in their generation; but, luckily for us gardeners, they do not know how to distinguish between the report of a gun loaded with powder and shot, and one that is only loaded with powder.

It is possible that the degrading slavery in which they usually live, their continued habits of cringing servility, by which the countenance acquires a sinister air and fiendishly cunning smirk, may cause this change in their appearance.

He chose a sheltered route as if instinctively cunning.

I planned bestial things as these creatures leaped around me, and planned them with a masterly cunning.

On the one hand, he finds in monotheism the original true religion, which has degenerated into superstition through priestly cunning and fantastical philosophy; in primitive Christianity, the system of natural religion, which has been transformed into a complicated and contentious science by its weak, foolish, or deceitful adherents; in theology, the corruption of religion; in Bacon, Descartes, and Locke, types of untrammeled investigation.

Drunken men are proverbially cunning.

He's sure cunning to run his own back track.

A feeling of hope and repose stole over him;when suddenly he saw at the door, which was ajar, the leering eyes and villainously cunning countenance of Billy.

Like almost every schoolgirl, I had my day of thinking a surreptitious, cigarette was wonderfully cunning.

"The keenest eye, or acutest cunning, could not have detected in those undulating hillocks aught but the natural irregularities of swampy ground.

But are ye cunning in the carman's lash?

The air of beastly cruelty was made even more hateful by an air of beastly cunning.