Anthony at last pay with his life the penalty of that subdolous alliance?. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
Vitarius said, "I was not aware you knew such a subdolous weasel as Loganaro, Conan.". From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Fearless]
Durkin next saw his enemy gaze about the entire circle of the room scrutinizingly, the subdolous green eyes coming to a rest only when they fell on his own relaxed figure. From Wordnik.com. [Phantom Wires A Novel] Reference
Of all this family, none were so supreme as the Emir Bescheer, who governed Lebanon during the Egyptian invasion, and to whose subdolous career and its consequences we have already referred. From Wordnik.com. [Tancred Or, The New Crusade] Reference
The fact was, the author was a conspicuous, shining light of his generation; the associate of princes and ministers; who, from the commanding position of his exalted eminence, cast his eyes over wide views of mankind that stretched into sweeping vistas of artifice and dissimulation; and who, for close upon half a century, participated prominently in the active business, -- the subdolous and knavish politics, -- of his time. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century] Reference
He who shall more honor truth than the vain subtilities of theology, will quickly perceive that this pompous science is nothing more than an unintelligible jumble of false hypothesis; that it continually begs its principles; is full of sophisms; contains only vitiated circles; embraces the most subdolous distinctions; is ushered to mankind by the most disingenuous arguments, from which it is not possible, under any given circumstances, there should result any thing but puerilities -- the most endless disputes. From Wordnik.com. [The System of Nature, Volume 2] Reference
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