1 You must be on your guard against it, it is crafty and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be drawn in bodily.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI... 2 If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little revolt is desirable from the point of view of power.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION 3 The prey was crafty and on its guard.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN 4 He awaited the propitious moment with the crafty patience of the sick.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F... 5 'Tis a canoe of good birchen bark, and paddled by fierce and crafty Mingoes.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20 6 Just then the crafty squaw, who had taken the necessary precaution to fire the piles, made her way through the throng, and cleared a place for herself in front of the captive.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 7 When he had thus announced his liberal intention, the crafty chief arose, and gravely spread his presents before the dazzled eyes of his hosts.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28 8 She eyed his crafty face narrowly, as she inquired to his recital of Toby Crackit's story.
9 The light beneath him was reflected in his small, cunning eyes which peered fiercely to right and left through the darkness like a crafty and savage animal who has heard the steps of the hunters.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ... 10 "I will tell you frankly," said Prince Vasili in the tone of a crafty man convinced of the futility of being cunning with so keen-sighted a companion.
11 The Austro-Prussian war appears to us undoubtedly the result of the crafty conduct of Bismarck, and so on.
12 The gnat, who was the most crafty, flew into the forest where the enemy was assembled, and hid herself beneath a leaf of the tree where the password was to be announced.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE WILLOW-WREN AND THE BEAR 13 In the end he deemed it best to be crafty with him, so in this mind he went up to his father, who was bending down and digging about a plant.
14 I recollect well how indignantly my heart beat, as I saw his crafty face, with the appropriately red light of the fire upon it, preparing for something else.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS 15 In this confidence I sent no embassy, I framed no crafty overtures; myself I have presented mine own person, and come a suppliant to thy courts.