How cunningly the olive-green dress with its underskirt of rose-brocade fitted her perfect figure. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
There was a phrase cunningly introduced and ambiguously worded, which seemed to mean that he had come by his wound in her cause. From Wordnik.com. [Saracinesca] Reference
Mrs. Bryant smiled cunningly and nodded at him again. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
But Mr. Gross deals with the obstacle rather cunningly. From Wordnik.com. [The Sincerest Form of Ridicule] Reference
A weekly event we have cunningly titled, New Music Tuesday. From Wordnik.com. [Death Cab Redux and Willie's 1,473rd] Reference
Monmouth County, and he adopted a very cunningly devised scheme. From Wordnik.com. [Two Wonderful Detectives Jack and Gil's Marvelous Skill] Reference
The dug-outs are complete and at places are apparently cunningly masked. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
Gaines didn't write the words or produce Mad's cunningly chaotic art work. From Wordnik.com. [Humor In A Jugular Vein] Reference
He manoeuvred so cunningly that I could not get within half a dozen rods of him. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
"Prove that to me," said Ryder, cunningly, "and may be I'll take you at your word.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
His plans were cunningly laid, and now -- who am I that the king should listen to me?. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
And do you suppose I did not know your aims, cunningly as you may think you veiled them?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Kiddie met the man's cunningly covetous glance as he passed the whole bundle across to him. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
'If he is not your son,' asked the Maharajah cunningly, 'why did you bring him to the durbar?'. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sonny Sahib] Reference
We had spent money on it, had laid our plans cunningly and deep, and were confident of success. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
The Rat List of corrupt European customs officials that he had cunningly obtained was paying off. From Wordnik.com. [The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth] Reference
Maybe, he told himself, cunningly, if he went to sleep again he would wake up dead, in a mausoleum. From Wordnik.com. [Out Like a Light] Reference
They also have air holes covered very cunningly two or three inches deep on the way to the bank and water. From Wordnik.com. [Black Beaver The Trapper] Reference
Not far off, hidden cunningly in the jungle grass, were four fine cubs, who looked like big, playful kittens. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
This fellow tested his wife warily and cunningly, as one pours water, and not wine or oil, into a leaky vessel. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
The boys eagerly explore the temples of an extinct race and discover three golden images cunningly hidden away. From Wordnik.com. [Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo] Reference
If possible, we should make it enforce itself, so that by no cunningly-devised scheme or shift can they nullify it. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Time after time the guns of the enemy have been concealed so cunningly from aerial observation as to pass unnoticed. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
Cee-Lo Green cunningly used a sparkling Motown backdrop to infiltrate pop culture with potty-mouth language – now here. From Wordnik.com. [New music video: Cee-Lo Green – Fuck You] Reference
So cunningly was it concealed that it would inevitably have escaped observation unless one were actually looking for it. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
He was bundled into a police van that had been cunningly hidden behind a tree and driven to the local station for processing. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Ground] Reference
Like all Japanese women, Chrysantheme carries a quantity of things in her long sleeves, in which pockets are cunningly hidden. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This Creature useth to lye near Rivers in his Lodging, which he cunningly & artificially builds with Boughs, Twiggs and Sticks. From Wordnik.com. [The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing] Reference
Down in the cellar of the gardener's house they found, behind a cunningly concealed door, a tunnel leading into the old mansion. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam] Reference
Everywhere he had to look out for treachery and for lying, and be ready to pounce on slaves cunningly concealed by the kidnappers. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of General Gordon] Reference
His hands were soft and smooth, with moist palms and closely cut nails -- vicious hands, made to take cunningly what they coveted. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Or was he cunningly trying her nature, to see whether she might prove worthy of the great recompense which she had promised herself?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It combines the excitement that ever attends the intricate and hazardous schemes of a detective, together with as cunningly elaborated. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Full of grief, the warriors sat down, while Beowulf arrayed himself in his cunningly fashioned coat of mail and his richly ornamented helmet. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
But thou, willing to cover over thine error, goest on cunningly, saying, that through their envy they persecuted him to death for an evil-doer. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
At a distance of about a mile he entered a pine wood, made his way among the trees, and at length halted in front of a cunningly hidden shanty. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
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