She saw
shrewdly that the world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.
The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces of victory, and of
shrewdly calculating difficulties, dangers and distances, constitutes the test of a great general.
"Ay, marry, for I saw it all," cried she, panting as the hare pants when it has escaped the hounds, "and I fear he is wounded sore, for one smote him main
shrewdly i' the crown.
His only proof of intellect was in
shrewdly avoiding all labor, and availing himself of the toil of others.
The alcohol,
shrewdly blended with water, is handed to me, and soon I am caught up in the revelry, with maggots crawling in my brain and John Barleycorn whispering to me that life is big, and that we are all brave and fine--free spirits sprawling like careless gods upon the turf and telling the two-by- four, cut-and-dried, conventional world to go hang.
Jones very
shrewdly suspected that Sophia herself was now with her cousin, and was denied to him; which he imputed to her resentment of what had happened at Upton.
The more carefully I reflected on what had passed between us, the more
shrewdly I suspected the production of the casket, and the application for the loan, of having been mere formalities, designed to pave the way for the parting inquiry addressed to me.
When I raised my eyes again, I found that he had been
shrewdly looking at me all the time, and was doing so still.
'I do not see that I have much to gain in bringing back my elder brother,' returned Alexander,
shrewdly.
Then Phileas Fogg had taken passage for Bordeaux, and, during the thirty hours he had been on board, had so
shrewdly managed with his banknotes that the sailors and stokers, who were only an occasional crew, and were not on the best terms with the captain, went over to him in a body.
Anne of Austria smiled
shrewdly. "Amusements of a serious nature?" she said.
But I could see them still, could feel them
shrewdly in my mind's flesh; and so to the old superstition, strangely justified by my case; and so to the poem which I, with my special experience, not unnaturally consider the greatest poem ever penned.