" He drew off, smiling shrewdly.

I'm only sergeant; but if you will join now, I'm authorized to swear you in provisionally," Jack said, shrewdly, seizing the flood at high tide.

shrewdly i' the crown.

" The Friar bent his brows and looked shrewdly at Robin Hood.

But she waited in trembling excitement, she maintained her attitude as an offended mother only in the certainty that she would at last have Pascal at her feet, shrewdly calculating that he would sooner or later be compelled to appeal to her for assistance.

" This sentiment elicited from the Lieutenant a grunt of approbation, as Tom intended that it should do; shrewdly arguing that the old martinet was no friend to the modern superstition, that all which is required to cast out the devil is a smattering of the 'ologies.

She must watch that barrier very shrewdly.

The sagacity of the low creatures whom she had despised showed them at once that the letters must be hers, since her character had been pretty shrewdly guessed, and the handwriting wore a more practised air than is usual among females in the country.

His services were frequently called into requisition by impecunious people of his own race; when they had money they went to white lawyers, who, they shrewdly conjectured, would have more influence with judge or jury than a colored lawyer, however able.

One said, shrewdly, "Eh! nebber minddey come to by'm bybelly 'blige 'em to work.

One said, shrewdly, "Eh! nebber minddey come to by'm bybelly 'blige 'em to work.

" Nancy looked at both, bewildered; at last a light dawned into her mind, and her face looked shrewdly and knowingly back at Mrs. Browne.

" Loring's eye-glasses fell from his nose, and he was smiling shrewdly when he replaced them.

Miss PHYLLIS BOTTOME achieves the difficult feat of treating a love conceived in a romantic vein without declining upon sentimentality, and seasons her descriptions, which are shrewdly, sometimes delicately, observed, with quite a pretty wit.

"Shrewdly guessed," quoth she, And blushedher blushes might have fired a torch.

If he bides there amongst his citizens, Ruling the folk, determining the laws, Look, father; bid some serf to be my guide, Some honoured master-worker in the fields, Who to shrewd questions shrewdly can reply.

He is going about it shrewdly, systematically.

Whatever the matter, one knows Bill will be sound, shrewdly practical, intensely loyal and quite unselfish.

This man condemned it, that cried aloud its righteousness and infallibility; one argued for it shrewdly, another declaimed against it loudly.

He looked her over shrewdly.

For example, instead of saying: The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold, you diverted attention from your acting by an appeal to the literary antiquarianism of your audience, and, out of one or other of the quartos, read the line:

The air bites shrewdly; is it very cold? with the implication that there was a whole world of suggestion in the difference.

he said, at last, looking shrewdly at me from beneath his gray brows.

It was shrewdly suspected, indeed, that if he should leave the Territory, he would not return.

But little as this young man had comprehended the conditions of the Berlin drama, still less was he aware that the Spontini Janissary opera, with its kettledrums, elephants, trumpets, and gongs, is a heroic means of inspiring our enervated people with warlike enthusiasma means once shrewdly recommended by Plato and Cicero.