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The distance, though great, was merely an extension of water; so much blankness to be sailed over; and in a craft, too, that properly managed has been known to outlive great ships in a gale. For this much is true of a whale-boat, the cunningest thing in its way ever fabricated by man. Upon one of the Kingsmill islands, then, I determined to plant my foot, come what come would.
But faces have a trick of growing more and more spiritualised and abstract in the memory, until nothing remains of them but a look, a haunting expression; just that secret quality in a face that is apt to slip out somehow under the cunningest painter's touch, and leave the portrait dead for the lack of it.
'Tis the cunningest of hell's devices first I was allured to the topmost pinnacle of joy to the very threshold of heaven then in an instant hurled headlong down and then oh that my breath could send a pestilence to hell! And then was made the murderer of my wife fool that I was to trust two erring eyes? Oh, fiends, this is your masterpiece of torture! Yes, by heavens!
Well then, if we must!" but sit always still. Nowhere in Political Mechanics have I seen such a Problem as this of hoisting to their feet the heavy-bottomed Dutch. The cunningest leverage, every sort of Diplomatic block-and-tackle, Carteret and Stair themselves running over to help in critical seasons, is applied; to almost no purpose.
At Amoy, as in most other ports in China, the customs are under the direction of a single mandarin, called the Hoppo, or Hoppou. The Chinese are justly reputed the craftiest people in the world; and it is their invariable maxim to appoint the cunningest man they can find to the office of hoppo.
"There are the prettiest baskets you ever saw." Miss Virginia adored baskets. "And there is the dearest sofa pillow." She had decided on a pillow for Caroline's birthday. "And, Aunt Virginia, there are the cunningest little collars with cuffs to match," Charlotte continued with mischievous eyes. Miss Virginia grew impatient.
I have been something tedious upon this Subject, on purpose to shew what strange ridiculous Stories these Wretches are inclinable to believe. I suppose, these Doctors understand a little better themselves, than to give Credit to any such Fooleries; for I reckon them the cunningest Knaves in all the Pack.
I have seen little from this artist's hand, but it was clearly of the cunningest. His model here was a very sturdy old prelate, though I should say a very genial old man. The sculptor has respected his monumental ugliness, but has suffused it with a singular homely charm a look of confessed physical comfort in the privilege of paradise.
He's the cunningest, dearest baby in the world!" The Hopper sat pigeon-toed, beset by countless conflicting emotions. His ingenuity was taxed to its utmost by the demands of this complex situation.
"Here he had laid his cunningest instrument, a thing of giant jaws, of sharp ragged points, each inlocking with the other, the whole unholy thing hung to a chain at whose other end there lay a ball of iron, weighing, M'sieu, some eighty pounds.
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