The accumulation of fortunes through foresight, unusual capacity, energy, thrift, and native honorable shrewdness is in itself no crime. From Wordnik.com. [Philanthropy] Reference
Shrewd beyond most men, his shrewdness was the clear, piercing vision of a clean, single heart, that knew not how to. From Wordnik.com. [An Address in Commemoration of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. From Wordnik.com. [Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children] Reference
You don't stay in office as Premier unless you have some kind of shrewdness as a politician. From Wordnik.com. [Eightieth Anniversary Luncheon] Reference
He's never shown this kind of shrewdness before, and I've been inclined lately to write him off. From Wordnik.com. [Sources: Latest Senate FISA Bill Does Not Contain Telecom Immunity] Reference
The young man was certainly not wanting in the sort of shrewdness which is permissible to a man of honor. From Wordnik.com. [Modeste Mignon] Reference
Perhaps it's this kind of shrewdness that prompted FBR Capital to initiate coverage of the bank with an "Outperform" rating. From Wordnik.com. [Investopedia.com Headlines] Reference
Our adaptations are challenged our shrewdness, on trial. From Wordnik.com. [David Katz, M.D.: Nutritious Foods: Being Smarter Than the Average Bear] Reference
In the faces of some were shrewdness, cunning, hypocrisy. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Nor can you help being impressed by its culinary shrewdness. From Wordnik.com. [An American Classic] Reference
That they do so is evidence not of virtue, but of shrewdness. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Bacevich: The End of (Military) History? The United States, Israel, and the Failure of the Western Way of War] Reference
His political shrewdness confounded even some of his supporters. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale of Two Fine Roosevelts] Reference
Deception and shrewdness is a necessary evil when so much is at stake. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Bastianich: What It Takes To Cut It In The MasterChef Kitchen] Reference
Jud, with a characteristic shrewdness, put his finger quickly on the spot. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
His black eyes twinkle with shrewdness and he is a past master of craftiness. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Therefore it requires great shrewdness or wisdom to get the better of the error. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Here is a chance to teach shrewdness, honor, interest, and by all means, moderation. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
Her industry and punctilio, as well as her political shrewdness, are beyond reproach. From Wordnik.com. [The Monarchy Will Prevail] Reference
She aids me greatly with her shrewdness, and knowledge of the world and the folk in it. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
A few more sharply-put questions were asked, and answered with corresponding shrewdness. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Yet that very shrewdness -- the piano riffs of "Mistletoe" are so well played and bright!. From Wordnik.com. [Album review: Jukebox the Ghost, "Everything Under the Sun"] Reference
"And well he did wait, too," declared Mr. Day, very much pleased with his own shrewdness. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
He enjoyed everything worldly with the brutality of his temperament and the shrewdness of his mind. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The unscrupulous quack, by reason of his shrewdness, goes scot-free, though a vastly greater villain. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
He was industrious, practically economical, single-minded; these qualities stood him in the stead of shrewdness. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Afterwards she served often in the picket line and distinguished herself by her courage, vigilance, and shrewdness. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Some one remarked that his boldness was greater than his shrewdness, else he would not have kept the horse so near. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
It is not difficult to guess whose shrewdness planned this, seeing that the question was vital to the career of Douglas. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
He was distinguished by energy as well as shrewdness, and an enterprising spirit was the first element of his prosperity. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
It was characteristic of Mrs. Hornblower's shrewdness that supper was always late when she had a dressmaker in the house. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
The Southern press and people, with more shrewdness than was displayed in the North, finding that they had failed to capture. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Whatever may be said of this man's political principles, there can be no question as to the shrewdness of his political methods. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
And Emma McChesney, with that shrewdness which had made her one of the best salesmen on the road, saw, and miraculously understood. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Evidences of latent talent in any particular direction are scrutinized with maternal shrewdness, and encouraged by applause and caresses. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
She was a fine-looking woman, commanding in face and figure, but she was a woman of wonderful shrewdness and self-control, and she asked. From Wordnik.com. [A Successful Shadow A Detective's Successful Quest] Reference
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