Lady Mary is a mere manoeuvrer, that no straightforward person could like; and Miss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference

"The ill-natured little manoeuvrer!" exclaimed Madame Dort, not thinking she was overheard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference

"The ill-natured little manoeuvrer!" exclaimed Madame Dort, half to herself, as he left the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference

She was far too skilful a manoeuvrer to give lookers-on such transparent grounds for designating her a match-making mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belles and Ringers] Reference

Rufus laughed a little; and Winthrop remarked there was nothing like straightforward dealing to confound a manoeuvrer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hills of the Shatemuc] Reference

It served the manoeuvrer right, that Maria, after one look at the shelves, began to cry out for Phoebe to come and find them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference

"It is all over with her!" ejaculates one tender-hearted manoeuvrer of the warming-pan, with her apron in the corner her eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference

Having thus successfully covered her daughter's retreat, our skilful manoeuvrer returned, all self-complacent, to the company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Novels — Volume 05] Reference

Flavie was bewildered; she was, however, awake to the extreme frankness of such language, and she said to herself, "He is not a secret manoeuvrer, certainly.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lesser Bourgeoisie] Reference

Malcomson was a manoeuvrer, and, as is pretty usual with individuals of his class and country, he looked upon "Papistry" as an abomination that ought to be removed from the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference

The motive had touched Rodney Sherrett's love and manliness, just as this fine manoeuvrer, -- pulling wires whose ends laid hold of character, not circumstance, -- believed and meant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Other Girls] Reference

There is not a husband-hunting dowager in the world of fashion, nor a female projector or manoeuvrer in aristocratic life, who will not enable her to understand and enjoy her good fortune.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference

I don't know what else to say then that would be censorship, and I think that if CUPE opposes the Israeli actions, then they can surely find a better way to express it then this potential manoeuvrer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive Bloggers] Reference

But whatever I may have been, or may have been supposed to be, on the great squares of politics, I believe I never have been accused or even suspected of being a manoeuvrer on the small domestic scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Novels — Volume 10] Reference

Whether there was or was not any foundation for this particular story, there is no doubt but that she exercised all her ingenuity and talent as a manoeuvrer to accomplish her object, and that she succeeded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret of Anjou Makers of History] Reference

The childlike simplicity, for instance, of this good and benevolent man, earnest and eccentric as it was, occasioned reflections more painful and touching to the callous but timid heart of this old manoeuvrer than could whole homilies, or the most serious and lengthened exhortations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference

Perhaps Robert, heart-sick and oppressed with the importance of what trembled on his tongue, was not ready in seizing the moment; perhaps she would not let him speak; at any rate, she was aware of some design; since, baffling Phoebe's last attempt, she danced up to her bedroom after her, and throwing herself into a chair, in a paroxysm of laughter, cried, 'You abominable little pussycat of a manoeuvrer; I thought you were in a better school for the proprieties!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference

"Yet we didn't simply try to manoeuvrer SAP thru the economic crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reseller News] Reference

"Dresde," said he, "est le pivot, sur lequel je veux manoeuvrer pour faire face à toutes les attaques.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II] Reference

"Thanks to steam," he wrote, "ships will be able to move in any direction with such speed that the effects of collision may, and indeed must, as they formerly did, take the place of projectile weapons and annul the calculations of the skilful manoeuvrer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783] Reference

'I never thought I was a manoeuvrer before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference

A girl of eighteen, pretend to know a manoeuvrer of her age! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Novels — Volume 05] Reference

Oh, she's a manoeuvrer! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Patty and Azalea] Reference

She had, indeed, a well-bred air of good humor, but that, with her youth (she was but twenty years of age), was her only qualification; for her capacity was narrow, her disposition selfish and grasping, and she was so inveterate a manoeuvrer, that, when she had no intrigues of her own on foot, she was always ready to lend herself to the plots of others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Marie Antoinette]