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shrewdly
1. Granddad observed shrewdly, you could see the signs of a long-term
2. “Have you been listening to tales?” he added shrewdly
3. should look at abduction, but it has to be done shrewdly –
4. She sipped daintily at her wine and eyed him shrewdly over the rim of the glass
5. slowly patrolled the perimeter of the table, surveying the faces of her command officers, shrewdly
6. It was a unique experience because the terrorists rarely operated in uniform but shrewdly in civilian clothes
7. The British very shrewdly as is their way started a land reform plan to negate some of the grievances
8. Bush shrewdly avoided even proposing a draft, for it had been such a huge rallying point against the US-Vietnam War
9. The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces of victory, and of shrewdly calculating difficulties, dangers and distances, constitutes the test of a great general
10. In the morning I wake up shrewdly and don’t experience any problems with the time difference
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12. Paul once again shrewdly uses the application of the milk metaphor in Hebrews 5: 12-13, to
13. I had to leave, and my brandy-soaked brain shrewdly calculated I could count on Louie to lay
14. Baffled by his loss of memory, he shrewdly theorized that he could be dreaming
15. ” She paused to smile shrewdly before looking at Lucifer with curious
16. After signaling Nurse with his fingers what number they were in, he shrewdly slipped her the key
17. "Then it is war--without quarter?" asked Kahn shrewdly
18. He shrewdly seemed to recall the risk he was under, from those traitors who would kill him, and from this one, who very well could kill him
19. The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold
20. And therefore, I said, Glaucon, musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful; and also because he who has received this true education of the inner being will most shrewdly perceive omissions or faults in art and nature, and with a true taste, while he praises and rejoices over and receives into his soul the good, and becomes noble and good, he will justly blame and hate the bad, now in the days of his youth, even before he is able to know the reason why; and when reason comes he will recognise and salute the friend with whom his education has made him long familiar
21. “We’ll be able to lie in bed and see the ocean!” he’d crowed when they’d first looked at this house, and the real estate agent had shrewdly said, “I’ll leave you to look on your own,” because, of course, the house spoke for itself
22. The part of mother presented to her no insuperable difficulties and for twenty-five years she had kept house shrewdly for her husband
23. When I raised my eyes again, I found that he had been shrewdly looking at me all the time, and was doing so still
24. Whether the witch had read the minister's thoughts, or no, she came to a full stop, looked shrewdly into his face, smiled craftily, and—though little given to converse with clergymen—began a conversation
25. ” He looked at her shrewdly
26. He had shrewdly weeded the new intake of monks, sending the modern-minded physician, Brother Austin, and two other bright young men to St-John-in-the-Forest, where they would be too far away to challenge his authority
27. He had distributed heavy penances, no doubt in the way of litanies and fasts; but he argued shrewdly that it would be difficult for them to make their peace with God durably till they had made peace with men
28. She regards me shrewdly while Bob oozes impatience with his hangdog, hungry look
29. Mrs Frith said shrewdly, "We could grow our own food, perhaps
30. Its state meant some harried attendants had shrewdly waylaid the girl and wrestled her into it as she was on the utter threshold of the Great Hall
31. Rochester; then she coined pretexts to go downstairs, in order, as I shrewdly suspected, to visit the library, where I knew she was not wanted; then, when I got a little angry, and made her sit still, she continued to talk incessantly of her “ami, Monsieur Edouard Fairfax de Rochester,” as she dubbed him (I had not before heard his prenomens), and to conjecture what presents he had brought her: for it appears he had intimated the night before, that when his luggage came from Millcote, there
32. Other eyes besides mine watched these manifestations of character—watched them closely, keenly, shrewdly
33. With the help of the great dictionary and the active intelligence of a healthy mind endowed by inheritance with more than ordinary reasoning powers he shrewdly guessed at much which he could not really understand, and more often than not his guesses were close to the mark of truth
34. A maid her suitor shrewdly scanned
35. On the other hand, Iván Mirónov, the peasants' representative, a dry, hook-nosed, literate peasant, who had been a township elder and had acted in the capacity of collector of taxes, had collected fifty kopeks from each peasant, which money he cleverly applied in the distribution of presents, and had very shrewdly conducted the whole affair
36. He calculated shrewdly about how long it would take before they would be glad to come up
