" CHAPTER XIII Peter Phipps, sitting in his private office, might have served as the very prototype of a genial, shrewd and successful business man.

But after all, he's a shrewd fellow.

As I had good reason to know, he was a shrewd and intelligent fellow, and one who never forgot any instructions that might be given him.

Mr. Alford, the farmer, was a blunt, good-humored, and rather eccentric man, shrewd and well to do, but kindly and charitable.

"Mrs. Kinloch is a very shrewd woman, an extraordinarily capable woman.

He was, however, gifted with shrewd sense, a quick sense of humor with keen wit, and a marked steadiness of character, which gained him both friends and popularity in the miserable little community where he lived; and in 1832 he was elected captain of a military company to fight Indians in the Black Hawk War.

He was the leader of his party in Illinois, a great speech-maker, who had defeated Douglas himself in debate, a shrewd, cool, far-sighted man, looking to the future rather than the present; and political friends had already gathered about him as a strong political factor.

The first was but a Breakfast: they have shrewd stomakes.

What will become of me in this, I know not: I have a shrewd guese though of the worst.

It astounded her that George, so shrewd and well balanced, should have made an investment so foolish.

You say that Madame la Presidente is not very shrewd, and consequently incapable of such a ruse.

I know men so well LIV A Shrewd But Not an Unusual Scheme

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Nor is he less skilful in physiognomy, and from the aspects of their faces, shape of their snouts, falling of their ears and lips, and make of their barrels will give a shrewd guess at their inclinations, parts, and abilities, and what parents they are lineally descended from; and by the tones of their voices and statures of their persons easily discover what country they are natives of.

Then, again, after he has really taken to heart the lessons that have been taught him, it will occasionally happen that, when he is in the society of people whom he does not know, he will be surprised to find how thoroughly reasonable they all appear to be, both in their conversation and in their demeanorin fact, quite honest, sincere, virtuous and trustworthy people, and at the same time shrewd and clever.

One of the men had called to him, an elderly man with a bald forehead, a grizzled moustache, and a shrewd kindly face.

There were little lines about the eyes which told their tale to a shrewd observer, though the face smiled never so pleasantly.

A Shrewd but Graceless Oxonian.

A Shrewd but Graceless Oxonian.

It was a shrewd blow at his reputation, for the outlaws had actually carried out the robbery while he was on their trail.

In this way was immortality secured for Pertinax [who (although bodies of men engaged in warfare usually turn out savage and those given to peace cowardly) excelled equally in both departments, being an enemy to dread, yet shrewd in the arts of peace.

But she was far too shrewd not to know that there's no accounting either for likings or dislikings where a man and a woman are concerned.

He knew that Bubbles' father had written to her aunt; he had himself advised it, knowing, with that shrewd, rather pathetic instinct which love gives to some natures, that Bubbles thought a great deal of her auntfar more, indeed, than her aunt did of her.

He had never understood the intuitions of women and thought them more often shrewd guesswork in which they were as likely to be wrong as right.

The old man who, with thin wiry legs, walked by his side, in a dingy white coat, and blue facings, and great pewter buttons, with his silver gray hair escaping from under his battered three-cocked hat; and his shrewd puckered resolute face, in which the boy could read no promise of sympathy, showing so white and phantom-like in the moonlight, was, as he thought, the incarnate ideal of a fairy.