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"Boteler, fill my goblet," said the Prince to that functionary, who, clothed in tight black hose, with a white kerchief, and a napkin on his dexter arm, stood obsequiously by his master's chair. The goblet was filled with Malvoisie: it held about three quarts; a precious golden hanap carved by the cunning artificer, Benvenuto the Florentine.
Then the youth raised the wild and thrilling cry, which he had learned from the savages themselves, and sped back toward the white force. The death cry of the Shawnee and the hostile war whoop rang together filling the forest and telling that the end of stealth and cunning, and the beginning of open battle were at hand.
The little boys gasped on the grass, but like cunning circulators of excitement, spread a report to keep it up, that Nick, on going to his wickets the previous day, had sworn an oath that he would not lay down his bat till he had scored a hundred.
Let us, then, always preserve our martial character, and neglect the praise of political cunning; a quality which, I believe, we shall never attain, and which, if we could obtain, would add nothing to our honour.
Carat's at once overturned the captain's whole story: cunning people often insert something in their narration to make it better, which ultimately tends to convict them of falsehood.
"She is as smart and cunning as they make them." "Very well," said the general; "that is but one step. Who is to capture them and take the risk of their own heads?" "D'ri and I could do it alone," was my confident answer. "Ah, well," said his Lordship, as he rose languidly and stood with his back to the fire, "I shall send them where the coast is clear my word for that.
David stared unbelievingly for a few seconds and then whirled to face the but it was not an apparition. The lean, cunning visage of the pickpocket was illumined by the never- to-be-forgotten smile of guilelessness that so ably stood him in hand in moments of peril.
He was a passionate, convinced misogynist, and it was impossible to alter his convictions. "Oh, nonsense!" he interrupted. "When once a woman sees in me, not a man, not an equal, but a male, and her one anxiety all her life is to attract me that is, to take possession of me how can one talk of their rights? Oh, don't you believe them; they are very, very cunning!
After the schooner sailed, McGowan succeeded in making his way out of the State and safe from the Vigilance Committee by the cunning and adroitness of his good friend Jack Powers. The Committee were foiled in their endeavor to capture the man, of all others, they were the most eager to catch and hang. There would have been short invoking of trial in his case and a hurried death by the rope.
"And so Picton and the arrest and all that, was nothing but a joke?" said the old fellow, rolling his wicked eyes with a most cunning expression. "Nothing more, Major, set your heart at rest." "What a scamp you are," said he, with another grin.
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