I retorted, and she smiled the slyest little smile in the world.

"Stay, good friend," quoth he, between bursts of merriment, "thou art the slyest old fox that e'er I saw in all my life!

He had the slyest eyes I have ever seen; that peculiar shifty glance which invariably sets one against an individual.

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

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.

The hungry thousands that crowded and pushed at Willard's thought him one of them, only deeper and slier.

This with a prodigiously sly wink of one heavy eyelid.

but I know that, as I drew the cangiar, the basest and the slyest of all the devils was whispering me, tongue in cheek: 'Kill, killand be merry.' With excruciating slowness, like a crawling glacier, tender as a nerve of the touching leaves, I moved, I stole, obliquely toward her through the wall of bush, the knife behind my back.

"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.

"Cry, cries, crying, cried, crier, decrial; Shy, shyer, shyest, shyly, shyness; Fly, flies, flying, flier, high-flier; Sly, slyer, slyest, slyly, slyness; Spy, spies, spying, spied, espial; Dry, drier, driest, dryly, dryness.

"I said, in my slyest manner, 'Your health, sir.

"Cry, cries, crying, cried, crier, decrial; Shy, shier, shiest, shily, shiness; Fly, flies, flying, flier, high-flier; Sly, slier, sliest, slily, sliness; Spy, spies, spying, spied, espial; Dry, drier, driest, drily, driness.

" "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.

"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.

The girl is beautiful, and is a fool; But love is folly; wherefore such a fool Is more to fear than e'er the slyest was.