The body is a big
sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
She had formed a very favourable opinion of my practical
sagacity.
In so doing, we do not only consult our own dignity and ease, but the good and advantage of the reader: for besides that by these means we prevent him from throwing away his time, in reading without either pleasure or emolument, we give him, at all such seasons, an opportunity of employing that wonderful
sagacity, of which he is master, by filling up these vacant spaces of time with his own conjectures; for which purpose we have taken care to qualify him in the preceding pages.
He had heard much of the
sagacity of the beaver in cutting down trees, in which, it is said, they manage to make them fall into the water, and in such a position and direction as may be most favorable for conveyance to the desired point.
Vasili Andreevich screwed up his eyes, bent down his head, and looked out for the way-marks, but trusted mainly to the horse's
sagacity, letting it take its own way.
Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive
sagacity.
But out of that chaos your belief in your own prudence and
sagacity reasserts itself.
Already the difficulties of avoiding a collision in a crowd are enough to tax the
sagacity of even a well-educated Square; but if no one could calculate the Regularity of a single figure in the company, all would be chaos and confusion, and the slightest panic would cause serious injuries, or -- if there happened to be any Women or Soldiers present -- perhaps considerable loss of life.
He applied himself to the work with great patience and
sagacity, carefully acting the
So, thanks to his care, his intelligence, his useful intervention in all difficulties, his prodigious and humane
sagacity, the average of accidents did not exceed that of transatlantic countries, noted for their excessive precautions-- France, for instance, among others, where they reckon about one accident for every two hundred thousand francs of work.
He slept in a stable--generally on horseback--and so terrified a Newfoundland dog by his preternatural
sagacity, that he has been known, by the mere superiority of his genius, to walk off unmolested with the dog's dinner, from before his face.
I have here certain letters from Paris on which I would consult your young
sagacity which is accredited to us by the most loyal Dona Rita."