He looks like a shifty little rat to me.

Three days before he had been in the west arm of Death Valley on a short water allowance, ankle-deep in shifty sand; now he was on the rise of Waban, knee-deep in sodden snow, and in both cases he did the only allowable thinghe walked on.

and made it a recruiting ground for his bellowing herds before beginning the long drive to market across a shifty desert.

From the height of a horse you look down to clean spaces in a shifty yellow soil, bare to the eye as a newly sanded floor.

But the bighorn, the wild sheep, able to bear the bitterest storms with no signs of stress, cannot cope with the loose shifty snow.

Could anything be more palpably shifty and unsatisfactory, more senile, more feebly artful, than the recent utterances of the German Chancellor?

The wind was in the south, and light and shifty.

Ida disliked him at the first glance, and disliked him still more at the second, as she caught his shifty eyes fixed on her with a curious and half-insolently admiring expression.

He whipped off his wig and his glasses as he spoke, and there was a high, bald forehead, and a pair of shifty blue eyes with the red rims of a bull terrier.

The School Board visitor's book showed that in a representative district of Bethnal Green, out of 1204 families, no less than 530 had removed within a twelvemonth, although such an account would not include the lowest and most "shifty" class of all.

He gave Elzevir a smile, and passed the time of day civilly enough, nodding also to me; but I did not like his oily black hair, and a shifty eye that turned away uneasily when one met it.

I tried to catch his eye to see if it looked bad or good, but could not, for he kept his shifty face turned always somewhere else; and then it came to my mind that if the treasure was really fraught with evil, this coarse dark-haired man, who could not look one straight, was to become a minister of ruin to bring the curse home to us.

Laughter we've earneda noble shame! Built to achieve a higher aim, We honest Huns can't play the game Of shifty propaganders; Henceforth we'd better all get back On to the straight and righteous track And help our HINDENBURG to hack (If not too late) through Flanders.

His eyes were wild and shifty as a wolf's.

Was it Oline said so?" "I don't well remember," says the Lapp, and his shifty eyes looked all ways around.

Some Labour papers said they were striking against the Government's shifty methods and broken pledges.

The man now called on was a smooth-tongued, tall, lean individual with shifty eyes, and a flow of talk of the coffeeshop variety.

"I guess I got as much right here as you got!" This was a shifty attempt to cloud the issue.

" With another laugh, she slipped awayher brown dress, that, in the shifty lights under the thick foliage, so harmonized with the colors of bush and vine and tree and rock, being so quickly lost to the artist's eye that she seemed almost to vanish into the scene before him.

The sleet still whips the pane And I must turn to work again Where the brown stout of Erin hums Through Dublin's aromatic slums And Sinn Fein youths with shifty faces Hold "Parliaments" in public places And, heaping curse on mountainous curse In unintelligible Erse, Harass with threats of war and arson Base Briton and still baser CARSON.

He had been involved in one of the mutinies of the underpaid Continental troops, and was a plotting, shifty, violent fellow.

They give him the benefit of the doubt, and if he shows up strong and shifty on his feet they're apt to let him alone.

He kept his shifty eyes turning constantly toward the door, as if afraid some one might overhear him.

LAMOTTE, COUNTESS DE, born at Fontelle, in Aube, who came up to Paris a shifty adventuress and played a chief part in the notorious affair of the DIAMOND NECKLACE (q. v.), which involved so many high people in France in deep disgrace (1756-1791).

I could not see him, of course, but somehow I felt that his attitude had become less arrogant and his glance more shifty.