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Updated: June 2, 2025
'Have you observed that very remarkable expression: SOMETHING TO HIS ADVANTAGE? enquired Pitman shrewdly. 'You innocent mutton, said Michael, 'it's the seediest commonplace in the English language, and only proves the advertiser is an ass. Let me demolish your house of cards for you at once.
She did many wrong things, but it may shrewdly be suspected that this was one of the very worst of them. It is not a little edifying at this juncture to find the Danes of Dublin amongst those who were enlisted upon the orthodox side.
I'm only sergeant; but if you will join now, I'm authorized to swear you in provisionally," Jack said, shrewdly, seizing the flood at high tide. Jack refused the prayerful urgings of the juniors, who pleaded tearfully to join him. But the president coming out confirmed Jack's decision until the juniors could get the written consent of their parents.
First Moses arrived, and, shrewdly suspecting from the appearance of the young couple that they were engaged in conversation that would not brook interruption, or, perhaps, judging from what might be his own wishes in similar circumstances, he turned his back suddenly on them, and, stooping down, addressed himself to an imaginary creature of the animal kingdom.
If you feel no need to show your allegiance and love to Christ by speech as well as by life, I shrewdly suspect you have little love or allegiance to hide. Further, the more we show it, the more need there is for us to cultivate the hidden element in our religion. If I were talking to ministers I should have a great deal to say about that. There are preachers who preach away their own religion.
We returned just in time to sit down to luncheon; and when we took our places at table, Florrie's look of mingled joy and sadness, the sparkling diamond upon her engaged finger, and the elated look upon my skipper's handsome face told me all that I had before only shrewdly suspected.
Statements of this sort the Captain preferred to make, when occasion arose, on his own behalf. "Say that I know I have been hard to her, that I recede from my demand, that I will be content with her simple word that she will not, without my knowledge, hold any communication with the person she knows of." The Captain now guessed or at least very shrewdly suspected the position of affairs.
With one arm round the upright to prevent the sag of rope from dragging him over prematurely, he essayed a final survey. Either the murk deceived or Lanyard had judged shrewdly. His feet were on an approximate level with the coping round the roof, and he stood about as far from the upper girder to which the rope was hitched as that was distant from the coping.
"She hath a very good wit," said he, shrewdly; "and nothing is to be gotten of her except by great policy." And he added: "If I had to say my fancy, I think it more meet that she should have two governesses than one." Mr.
"Make me some like them," he said, "and I will give you ten times their weight in gold, which, after all, is of no use since with it one cannot kill enemies." "In my country with it one can corrupt them," I answered, "or buy them to be friends." "So you have a country," he interrupted shrewdly. "I thought that the gods had none." "Even the gods live somewhere," I replied.
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