PUNCHINELLO discovers a shrewder reason.

"My present occupation requires a shrewder head and a steadier hand than yours.

Books are not seldom talismans and spells, By which the magic art of shrewder wits Holds an unthinking multitude enthralled.

Tom Brown had a shrewder insight into this kind of character than either of his predecessors.

"He was then invited," said Mr. Hawkins, "to a little dinner at another supporter of the Claimant's, and one somewhat shrewder than the rest."

But I've seen animals that were shrewder than men, and men who were vastly less intelligent than ani

"Yes, I'm sure she must be only the tool of some shrewder person.

He was stronger than Buck Mason, quicker than Denver Jim, and shrewder than the judge.

Lesbia found that it was too warm to be on the deck when there were perspiring people, whose breath must be ninety by the thermometer, perpetually coming on board; so she and Lady Kirkbank sat in the saloon, and had the more distinguished guests brought down to them as to a Court; and the shrewder of the guests were quick to divine that no company beyond that of Don Gomez de Montesma was really wanted in that rose-scented saloon.

He wished these people to regard him as a kind of official friend, to advise and settle differences; yet, shrewder than he, they considered him as an enemy, who lived on their mistakes and the collapse of their social relationships.

And yet in none of his other works does he evince a shrewder insight into real life, and a clearer perception and knowledge of what is called "the world."

This was because he had no great opinion of the simple country deities, but thought that the thief would not pass undetected by the shrewder gods of the town.

Never was a shrewder genius than Noureddin Ali!" "Don't shout his name too loud," said somebody.

At Seghill and at Bedlington I have slept in their cottages and have been welcomed to their tables, and I remember one evening at Seghill, after a lecture, that my host invited about a dozen miners to supper to meet me; the talk ran on politics, and I soon found that my companions knew more of English politics and had a far shrewder notion of political methods than I had found among the ordinary "diners-out" in "society".

"The shrewder he is, the more credit there will be in making him let go.

" O Cyclops, Cyclops, where are flown thy wits? Go plait rush-baskets, lop the olive-boughs To feed thy lambkins'twere the shrewder part.

In the opinion of the "boss," there wasn't a cleverer, shrewder fellow in the world than don Andrés, nor one with a better memory for names and faces.

Our vines have shrewder grapes.

The doctor was shrewder than he thought.

Now, it so happened that Josiah Warmore, the merchant, was a far shrewder man than G. Field Catherwood suspected.

If Bushido rejects a doctrine of quid pro quo rewards, the shrewder tradesman will readily accept it.

When a man backs a worthless horse against the field, money probably is transferred from the stupider to the shrewder party.

During the dark days of the Rebellion, when the bondman was turning his eyes to the American flag, and learning to hail it as an ensign of deliverance, some of the shrewder slaves, coming in contact with their masters and overhearing their conversations, invented a phraseology to convey in the most unsuspected manner news to each other from the battle-field.

It is singular that workmen do not take a lesson from their shrewder employers, who, if they have organizations of their own, never confer upon any officer or committee of idlers the power to control the trade.

But a shrewder man than Mason quietly turned up the buttons on the Secession coat and showed upon them the stamp of a Connecticut factory.