cunningly

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Then I lopped away the boughs of the long-leafed olive-tree, and shearing the bole from the root up full well and cunningly, I planed it about with the brass, and set the rule thereto, and shaping thereof a bed-post, with the wimble I bored it through.

Oscar Wilde - Derniers essais de littérature et d'esthétique: août 1887-1890