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See those letters scratched on the side 'D. D.? That stands for my name, Dare-devil Dick. I'm going to keep it." "That's the cunningest thing I ever saw," declared Georgina in a tone both admiring and envious, which plainly showed that she wished the initials were such as could be claimed by a Gory George. Then she picked up the pouch and thrust in her hand. Something rustled. It was a letter.
Sherwen," pleaded Miss Polly, with mischief in her eyes. "I'd make the cunningest little office assistant to busy old Dr. Pruyn. And he's a friend of dad's, and we surely ought to wait for him." "If only I COULD send you! The fact is, Americans won't be very popular if matters turn out as I expect." "Shall we be confined to our rooms and kept incomunicado, while Dr.
"Oughtn't Sutton to have told me? Well, it's too late now because I've told half a dozen fellows." "But there's nothing to tell." "Well, I told it to old Thrapston you don't know him, do you? Cunningest old boy in London. Upon my honor, you know, I shouldn't like to be like old Thrapston, not when I was getting old, you know. He's too " "Well, what did he say?" asked Victor.
"I've had a steel box made for me with a special lock which would drive the cunningest burglar on this earth mad before he'd been at it ten minutes. It would. He'd go right away and reform." Jimmy's lips closed tightly, and a combative look came into his eye at this unconscious challenge. This woman was too aggressively confident. A small lesson. He could return the jewels by post.
My father had indentured me as apprentice to his lawyer, and sooner than submit to the rule of this man the evil genius of our family I had taken flight. The companion of my wanderings was Darby M'Keown, the piper, the cleverest and cunningest of the agents of rebellion. Then I had met De Meudon, who had turned my thoughts and ambitions into another channel. My companion grew steadily worse.
"Yes, 'm, I do love him," said Dotty; "Prudy says he's the cunningest boy there is in this town." And then she softly kissed Mrs. Gray's cheek, though she had never kissed her before, and did not know why she was doing it now. "When he gets well, won't you let him come to our house and play croquet?
For you are to know that trout be now scarce, and whereas he was ever a fearful fish, he hath of late become so wary that none but the cunningest anglers may be even with him.
"Good by, Prudy," said Horace, climbing into the stage-coach, quite out of breath. He had run all the way to the post office just for the sake of seeing her again. "Good by, Prudy. You're the cunningest little spud! If you lived out West I'd just go a-flyin'." Nobody knew whether Horace cried or not, for nobody saw him till dinner time, but then he looked very sober indeed.
But his death-bed was at least not haunted by the unappeasable apprehension of a German for his biographer; and that the fame of Lessing should have four times survived this cunningest assault of oblivion is proof enough that its base is broad and deep-set.
I daresay he would beat bravely through a snowstorm where his duty called him; and it is not always the most faithful believer who makes the cunningest apostle. The bed was made, the room was fit, By punctual eve the stars were lit; The air was still, the water ran; No need there was for maid or man, When we put up, my ass and I, At God's green caravanserai.
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