I felt sorry for the Grand Duke; sorrier still for that admirable M. Pigot; but, after all, one could not but admire the cleverness of the man who had despoiled them.

Her cleverness in selecting the proper wear for herself and children was nothing short of marvellous; and her calm acceptance of the new state of affairs, the acme of good breeding.

He had too much cleverness with his bad style, or, if you prefer it, was sufficiently like a gentleman to be dangerous.

"Mr. Hanson," he writes, "Lord Byron's solicitor, consigned him to my care at the age of thirteen and a half, with remarks that his education had been neglected; that he was ill prepared for a public school; but that he thought there was a cleverness about him.

Hence, those infant prodigiesingenia praecodathe fruit of a hot-house education, who surprise us by their cleverness as children, afterwards turn out very ordinary folk.

Sir Magnus would not have been very angry,he was rarely very angry,but he should like to show his cleverness by finding it out.

Wad they but put half the cleverness into honest toil that they do into writin' me a letter or speerin' a tale o' was to wring my heart, they could earn a' the siller they micht need for themselves.

He was a cunning fellow, with a hangdog look, and a great cleverness at stealing farm produce from father on the sly, and selling it.

He noticed also that it was well guarded and that it would require some cleverness on his part to get it.

Some of these men, however, were less distinguished for cleverness than for malignity, and shrieked for blood and the display of brute force in terms that would have done dishonor even to a St. Bartholomew assassin or anti-Albigensian crusader.

In addition to his imperiousness, he had learned to affix the idea of cleverness to various artifices and subterfuges which utterly revolted her by their meanness.

You inherit much of his force of character, and that is what gave you the reputation of extreme cleverness among your more commonplace companions.