"But when their slyness is known their case is mortal," said Longarine. From Wordnik.com. [The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre] Reference
And -- most important -- the emotion (a kind of slyness) that came to him from the "noise" in the being's brain. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of Forever]
There was just a touch of slyness in the question. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
She laughed with a hint of cool slyness and triumph. From Wordnik.com. [Lodusky] Reference
'But has he not told you?' he added, with ponderous slyness. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
I was modest — I was accused of slyness: I grew secretive. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of Our Time] Reference
It was like a child, frightened into slyness, coaxing its mother. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
A fox is an emblem of slyness, of cunning, and of artful mischief. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
No one else tried it, and Torg congratulated himself on his slyness. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Magic]
If he went on beside him, he observed him with the slyness of an old white fox. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
But the slyness with which he slipped in that last question put me on my guard. From Wordnik.com. [The Moonstone] Reference
I accuse him boldly, in his capacity of servant to man, of slyness and treachery. From Wordnik.com. [The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices] Reference
There was a note of slyness in Preen's question and Campion laughed contemptuously. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Mr Campion]
The same slippery slyness probably accounted for his acceptance by Lady Baskerville. From Wordnik.com. [The Curse of the Pharaohs]
He calls to mind all Mrs. Talbot had said about her slyness, and feels disheartened. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted Chamber A Novel] Reference
Briton perfidy is as proverbial in the empire as Egyptian slyness or Greek arrogance. From Wordnik.com. [Hadrian's Wall.html]
Distance belongs to it, slyness belongs to it, queerest things on earth belongs to it!. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Greenwood Tree] Reference
A hint of the subtle slyness he had come to associate with her crept back into her voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Mocking Program]
He combines the ferocity of the tiger, the slyness of the fox, and the shape of a monkey. From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
Here she put on a little slyness of aspect, and seemed willing to submit to interruption. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon] Reference
But, for all his slyness and cunning, he's undyingly faithful to the Capellan Conferdation. From Wordnik.com. [jaimewolf Diary Entry] Reference
Another bit of slyness -- didja notice the barak obama emblem on sledgehammer woman's t-shirt?. From Wordnik.com. [Who is "ParkRidge47"?] Reference
Only there was a slyness in the gaze he kept on me, which promised that we had better not trust him. From Wordnik.com. [Dread Companion]
The qualities of his style are peculiar, slyness and cleverness in jesting being his predominant qualities. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference
The dwarf had developed a sudden slyness, an evasiveness, which suggested thoughts he did not want to reveal. From Wordnik.com. [The Swordbearer]
He looked down at Bartare and then to me, and he was alert now, with much of the old slyness back in his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Dread Companion]
He was still smiling, but there was a slyness to it now, something unpleasant that made her squirm in her seat. From Wordnik.com. [The Store]
He looked good-a hint of Tom Cruise cockiness, a dash of Harrison Ford slyness, something kind of neat like that. From Wordnik.com. [The Lake House]
He sneered back in a poisonous mixture of slyness and malice and triumph, and half-whispered his final enjoyable words. From Wordnik.com. [Twice shy]
But a minute later his face suddenly changed and with a certain assumed slyness and affectation of bravado, he glanced at. From Wordnik.com. [Crime and Punishment] Reference
A panther is like a cat in slyness or cunning, watching stealthily for prey and springing upon it in the most unexpected way. From Wordnik.com. [Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories] Reference
His petty evil was no match for some of the minds Talia had been forced to touch, though his slimy slyness made her skin crawl. From Wordnik.com. [Arrow's Fall]
The tnuctipun slaves had possessed high intelligence, higher technology, and a slyness more terrifying than any merely mental power. From Wordnik.com. [Neutron Star]
He was a creature of monumental slyness, full of evil wisdom ... but in the end he had slipped, and now he would pay forever and ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Tower]
Of course Jake is creating these conversations, a paradox that Simon handles with Socratic slyness and some of his most affecting humor. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Spys:Real Or False.?] Reference
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