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M'Bongwele was an ignorant savage, it is true, but he was possessed of a dauntless courage, a persistency of purpose, and an unscrupulous craftiness and ambitiousness of character which would have won him distinction of a certain unenviable kind in any community.

Now the words that Alma spake unto Zeezrom were heard by the people round about; for the multitude was great, and he spake on this wise: Now Zeezrom, seeing that thou hast been taken in thy lying and craftiness, for thou hast not lied unto men only but thou hast lied unto God; for behold, he knows all thy thoughts, and thou seest that thy thoughts are made known unto us by his Spirit;

But he was liable to intercurrent fits of jealousy and rage, such as the light-hued races are hardly capable of conceiving, blinding paroxysms of passion, which for the time overmastered him, and which, if they found no ready outlet, transformed themselves into the more dangerous forces that worked through the instrumentality of his cool craftiness.

She straightened up and gazed at him, taking one of his hands in her lithe fingers. "Oh, but I must! It is the truth. I felt that you cared women are surer in such matters than men. I must conceal nothing from you nothing of my craftiness. Women are crafty, you know. And suppose you fail? Ah, I do not mean failure you cannot fail, now. You have put yourself forever beyond failure.

Many have received from sin that doleful experience, that premature craftiness, which, far from enlightening the mind, obscures and blinds it, which, far from fortifying the will, enfeebles and enervates it. Such is the light by which we can truly see the importance that should be attached to the time of youth.

The craftiness of an inquisitor, revealed in those curving wrinkles and creases that wound about his temples, indicated a profound knowledge of life. There was no deceiving this man, who seemed to possess a power of detecting the secrets of the wariest heart.

But Napoleon asked not for the cause of these tears; he had not the courage to wage an open war with this brave, loving heart, and to subdue her love and despair with the two-edged sword of his state policy and craftiness.

Make one movement to escape, or say anything but what I have told you to say, and you are a dead man!" The patter of the horses was becoming more and more distinct. "Will you do as I tell you?" asked Watson, very coolly, as he toyed with his revolver. "If I won't?" asked Hare. His face was now convulsed by a variety of emotions fear, rage, craftiness, and disappointment.

The long habit of sole dominion over every object round him, his almost unbroken solitude, his never encountering humanity except on terms of misanthropic independence, or mercantile craftiness, and even such encounters being comparatively but rare; all this must have gradually nourished in him a vast idea of his own importance, together with a pure animal sort of scorn for all the rest of the universe.

I planned to get you all here for a totally different purpose, and I trust you will approve of my craftiness when you have seen what I have to show you." "Sure we will," interposed Tom Hughes in an unexpectedly audible stage whisper, which greatly confused him, but delighted Patricia and David.