710 examples of sly in sentences

In company with the British Consul (Mr. Sly) I called upon the manager of the railway at Harbin to secure such accommodation.

Sylvester quickly banished a sly smile.

Eleseus was far from stupid, but on the contrary, a sly fellow in his way.

Sly simplicity at war on every side.

If the sly rascal was still making a fool of Riggs, or denied that he had been below, I felt that his crucifix would be proof against him which he could not deny.

We have no Account of the particular Colours, Casts and Turns of this Body of Eyes; but as he was Pimp for his Mistress Juno, tis probable he used all the modern Leers, sly Glances, and other ocular Activities to serve his Purpose.

You know my Supper is only good Cheshire Cheese, best Mustard, a golden Pippin, attended with a Pipe of John Sly's Best.

Nor would the ardor of search be chilled by the suggestion of scarcity conveyed in the practical sarcasm of the sly old cynic, when he scorched human nature with a horn lantern by instituting a search with it on the sun-bright highways for an unauthenticated type of man.

As true as I live, I heard her answer back the other night with such a sly little 'Katy-did!

This with a prodigiously sly wink of one heavy eyelid.

Sly Reynard now like lightning flies, And sweeps across the vale; And when the hounds too near he spies, He drops his bushy tail.

It had the vulgar sort of witticism about even his air, that he so much affected in his speech; the whole being deformed by a species of sly malignancy, that rendered him as offensive as he seemed to me to be dangerous.

"Didn't see you at the club," he added, with a sly wink at his wife.

Dumps was a remarkably grave and sly character, and Poker was a wagan incorrigible wagin every sense of the term.

His brow was a countless mass of ever-varying wrinkles, which gave to his sly visage an aspect of humorous anxiety that was highly divertingand all the more diverting when you came to know that the man had not a spark of anxiety in his composition, though he often said he had.

The Esquimau did not understand the words, but he quite understood the sly chuckle and the motion of the arm, so he sent the lash of the heavy whip with a loud crack over the backs of the team.

Also, he at the bottom still had some of the squeamishness that was born into him and trained into him in early youth; he did not like to be forced squarely to face the fact that real business had been relegated to the less able or less honest, while the big rewards of riches and respect were for the sly and stealthy.

Wiley wuz one er dese yer shiny-eyed, double-headed little niggers, sha'p ez a steel trap, en sly ez de fox w'at keep out'n it.

" "They are too sly for me, I confess; I don't approve of priests meddling in family affairs.

St Cuthman was looking prodigiously sly, He knew that the hours were slipping by.

If you should happen to think of any way," he continued, with a sly smile, "of upsetting that will, just let me know, and I will lose no time in entering a caveat.

"Well," answered Chisholm, with a sort of sly wink, "you'll understand, Mr. Lindsey, that we haven't been doing nothing these last few days, since yon inquest on Phillips, you know.

On another sits a more sly rogue, whose demure and submissive look is assumed to conceal a mischief-making disposition.

Add to these charms her sly or roguish glances, her pretty pouts, and the various attitudes of her head, with which she emphasized her talk, and you will have some idea of that face full of vivacity and beauty, and always radiant with health and happiness.

Sometimes, "In the dead vast and middle of the night," I used to hear sounds as if some one were turning that rusty crank on the sly.

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