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"What I got to say is private. As I was saying, A. A. says to me, 'Soapy, you are one of the craftiest and slipperiest crooks on this side of the Atlantic Ocean. What you don't know about crime would fill a book about as thick as a postage stamp. There's nobody on this island more fittin' to be an officer of the law.
You hear an application or two from prisoners about their worldly matters, chiefly from the craftiest, oldest hands; wish them good morning, and away. "Catholic," a most honoured term in ancient times, has in modern days been very unfortunate.
Here she could see the great white bed with its heavy hangings of crimson damask, and the head of the sick woman in its frilled cap lying on the pillows: she could see also her husband's face and figure, as he stood beside the little table on which Mrs. Luttrell's medicine bottles were usually kept, and she shivered at the sight. His face wore its craftiest and most sinister expression.
He repented his own rashness in the recent debate, which was, indeed, a premature boldness that had sprung out of momentary excitement for the craftiest orator must be indiscreet sometimes. He spent the next few days in alternately seeking to explain away to one party, and to sound, unite, and consolidate the other.
The Feast of the Passover was nearly there. "We shall have to do away with Jesus quietly," someone said. "Yes," the others agreed, "we can't wait till the day of the Passover. If we should do anything to him on that day, there would be a riot." They were at their wits' end to know how to get rid of Jesus. The craftiest men in Jerusalem could not think what to do. There was a knock at the door.
At the Red Lion Inn in Edinburgh her beauty struck the eye of the Earl of Morton, the factious, proud, and ferocious associate of Moray in all the dark intrigues of that craftiest of Scottish statesmen. Morton promised that Anna should be entrusted to a lady of fair repute, and soon presented to the queen.
Then he split up some more wood and lashed strips, almost touching each other, underneath the two poles, by the aid of some strong creepers. Then he filled up the bed place, between the poles, with dry leaves. One end of the bed was some inches higher than the other. This was immaterial, and he felt satisfied that even the craftiest snake could not reach him.
Zing-ha lay with him in the snow and watched Zing-ha, who later became the craftiest of hunters, and who, in the end, fell through an air-hole on the Yukon. They found him, a month afterward, just as he had crawled halfway out and frozen stiff to the ice. But the moose. Zing-ha and he had gone out that day to play at hunting after the manner of their fathers.
Sammy didn't reply. He just sneaked off through the Green Forest, looking quite as foolish as he felt. Coyote has a crafty brain; His wits are sharp his ends to gain. There is nothing in the world more true than that. Old Man Coyote has the craftiest brain of all the little people of the Green Forest or the Green Meadows.
We do not know what there may be in any of them; perhaps the answer to all our difficulties or the cure of all our sufferings: and yet we can never reach them; not all the skill of the craftiest of men can fit out a ship for the nearest of these our neighbours, nor would the life of the most aged suffice for such a journey.
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