He was clever in nicknames and witty expressions,as when he dubbed the Blue Book of the Import Duties Committee "the greatest work of imagination that the nineteenth century had produced."

There, there now, you're clever, but no guesser; it couldn't be anybody else but Ustinya Naúmovna.

Mark my words once for all, my dear friend, and be clever.

informe, shapeless, formless. infundir, to infuse, inspire, instill. ingenio, m., ingenuity, cleverness, wit, mind. ingenioso, -a, ingenious, clever. ininteligible, unintelligible. inmediato, -a, immediate, next, adjacent, very near. inmensidad, f., immensity.

m, clever man.

They are very clever work-people, but they pass their Sundays and holidays stupidly enough.

[Illustration: The Little Dauber] Lazy people think they're clever.

Evans was a clever draughtsman, and some of his sketches of the country explored are reproduced in Oxley's journal.

The other day he had been obliged to commit a little cowardly act; he did not mind that, for he was used to it, but it was under the eyes of an incorruptible witness, and he was too clever not to have retained a disagreeable memory of the incident.

" "Do you think," Bobby asked, "that Carlos is clever enough to have got through those doors?

Don Gomez de Montesma is as clever as Satan, as handsome as Apollo, and he bears one of the oldest names in Castile.

Clever as Satan, handsome as Apollo, scion of an old Castilian family, fresh from the tropics.

But England they look upon as the root of all their trouble, the despicable, retreating enemy they cannot touch, the enemy, they maintain, whose clever, but selfish, diplomacy has forced the brunt of the fighting on the others, while she sits back to wait for the spoils.

Each, with clever variation in detail, is reported as occurring to a relative or close friend of the teller.

For she, a clever and determined woman, kept him, though not from drunkenness and debt, at least from delirium tremens and ruin, and was, in her rough, vulgar way, his guardian angelsuch a one at least, as he was worthy of.

"Marie, you know that your words are false; I do more" "You admire me," interrupted she, "because I am clever.

This was perhaps the greatest charm of her clever letters; they were all about "you,"not, of course, that you didn't want to hear about her.

It cannot be said that the place ever adequately gratified the sense of mystery it excited; but, after all, to excite the sense of mystery is perhaps better than to gratify it, and, considering its poor material, this room was quite a clever old mysteriarch.

"Yes, very clever," agreed Mortlake, far too smart to show his inward feelings, or to wear his heart upon his sleeve; "very neat.

He felt that he was facing two clever rascals, whose cunning was too much for his straightforward methods.

How very clever we are.

" "A singular name, truly," remarked Blaize; "but it sounds like that of a clever man.

Think of all those grown-up, so-called civilized people being so ferociously intent on chasing one poor little animal for its lifeand feeling, when at last the huntsman holds up his poor brush, with absurd pride (if indeed the fox is not too sly for them), that they have really done something clever, in that with so many horses and dogs and so much noise, they have actually contrived to catch and kill one fox!"

There is not a dry ditch, or a water-course, or an old drain, or a hole in a bank for miles around that is not mysteriously set down in the map he carries in his graceful, clever head; and one need hardly say that all the suitable hiding-places in and around farm-yards are equally well known to him.

They come so close to you, are so beautiful and so clever; and sometimes there seems such a curious pathos about them.