From a dog's point of view his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog. From LearnThat.org. [Mabel L. Robinson.]
"Well, then, I will be as plain as ever I can be, only premising that what you call the cunning of the serpent --". From Wordnik.com. [The Seaboard Parish Volume 1] Reference
Lots more dogs in cunning costumes at Made in Mundo. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
Well I doubt his low reptilian cunning is inadequate to that task but lets pretend. From Wordnik.com. [How Boring Am I ?] Reference
I told him I knew nothing of him myself; I had heard him characterized as a cunning man. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4] Reference
I certainly hope so as I love nothing better than cuddly beasts decked out in cunning human outfits. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
If an ingenious pygmy is called a cunning runt. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The only witness to my cunning was our school mascot. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
We have been described as cunning, malicious and treacherous. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries] Reference
I think this is what Hegel refers to as the cunning of reason. From Wordnik.com. [Unintended consequences] Reference
But underneath all her cunning is the rock of eternal fidelity. From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
But Hans, who saw the great danger, called his cunning to his aid. From Wordnik.com. [Allan and the Holy Flower] Reference
Indeed, I was once called a cunning linguist, but I misunderstood. From Wordnik.com. [London SE1 community website] Reference
"At times," she said, "you are almost what young girls call cunning!". From Wordnik.com. [The Firing Line] Reference
Mr Osborne developed what Curtis's Baldrick would call a cunning plan. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
"Will you?" thought Fred, as he recalled the cunning way in which they had buried it. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Treasure Hunter or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska] Reference
They call cunning and craftiness intelligence and wisdom, nor do they know otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence] Reference
What was it like to be alluded to as a cunning 'go-to' attorney in a Laura Lippman novel?. From Wordnik.com. Reference
After the third time the doctor began to cherish suspicion, and called cunning to his aid. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock o' Glenwarlock] Reference
Were not dissenters, for instance, a class of people, with strict truth characterized as cunning?. From Wordnik.com. [Chap. XIII] Reference
Were not dissenters, for instance, a class of people, with strict truth, characterized as cunning?. From Wordnik.com. [A vindication of the rights of woman] Reference
Kedzie was of the village, for all her Parisian garb, and she had cunning, which is the lowest form of wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
Those who used their magic for good were called cunning folk or charmers or blessers or wisemen and wisewomen. From Wordnik.com. [Guest blogger Mary Sharratt on British Folk Magic and Familiar Spirits] Reference
"Let them start calling cunning and treacherous women Coulters instead of Jezebels," said the ancient temptress. From Wordnik.com. [Jezebel calls Coulter ��Classless and Shameless��] Reference
The derogative sense of sly and cunning, which is, in the original, implied by the demonstrative pronoun "that,". From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers]
He was originally known as a cunning criminal who invented numerous weapons that use light to commit crimes with. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Book Movie] Reference
Or if we believe cunning is insight. From Wordnik.com. [mjh's blog — 2008 — January] Reference
Why shouldn't that kind of cunning include couture?. From Wordnik.com. [Ambria Miscia: Consigning the Upper East Side] Reference
The Alpha Dogs are never the smartest is "cunning" an intellectual trait?. From Wordnik.com. [WEDNESDAY MARGINALIA] Reference
So thanks Mr. Limbaugh – it achieved the exact opposite of your "cunning" plan ha ha ha!. From Wordnik.com. [Limbaugh comes out for Obama] Reference
Falsehood and theft are that cunning which is the natural and necessary weapon of weakness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
Books about one abstraction, in this case "cunning," and the infinite complexities of Tammy Faye. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
He still has fine zeal, energy and determination, coupled with low cunning which is eminently desirable just now. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
No other child ever had been, ever could be, so fetching, so "cunning," so lovely, such a duck!. From Wordnik.com. [Marriage à la mode] Reference
cunning men often pass for wise. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
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