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crafty
1. crafty in dealing with Moses and Aaron
2. He just smiled at us, a sly and crafty smile, the grin of the clinically insane behind rusty Bedlam bars, except that in this case the lunatic carried the keys to the cell upon his belt
3. crafty, so that their hands cannot
4. "Well, well!" said an old woman, peering out with a crafty look
5. If you are using written testimonials, then be crafty about it
6. This is the tale of Crafty Coyote and Galloping Gopher
7. Crafty Coyote was a devout carnivore, fully dedicated to and focused on his daily hunting activities of small animals that might be found innocently and naively wandering around his territorial domain
8. At first glance, that would not seem to be the case at all here, since the poor, helpless Galloping Gopher could not live in peace much of the time due to the constant threat and her subsequent fear of being attacked and devoured by the swift and sharp-toothed Crafty Coyote
9. To judge whether such retaliations are likely to produce such an effect, does not, perhaps, belong so much to the science of a legislator, whose deliberations ought to be governed by general principles, which are always the same, as to the skill of that insidious and crafty animal vulgarly called a statesman or politician, whose councils are directed by the momentary fluctuations of affairs
10. they're crafty little buggers
11. The crafty fetish-man then made a poisonous mixture, and poured it down her throat
12. Thus was the crafty Negro foiled; a man of undoubted talent, whose cleverness and education, if directed properly, might have made him a leading light on the Gold Coast
13. Satan‘s deceptions lie not only in his mastery over the (apparent) opponents of the Church but (especially) disgruntled Catholics operating within the Church itself; organizing, through crafty and subtle means an assembly of heretics, doctrinal apostates,
14. "The crafty old sod's pulled a fast one on us Tony
15. Stewart has a number of political connections, notably among liberals, has given rise to crafty arguments that this indictment is somehow all about her being a woman
16. "You've been trying to get a crafty look-see, haven't you? You dirt old sod!"
17. Actually, if Mike (or – Shannon, if that really was his name) had been able to pull off such a stunt right under the nose of someone as crafty as Sylvia, more power to him
18. You crafty bastard
19. “It’s a language for the crafty
20. 12 He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise
21. 5 For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty
22. After a humiliating parley at Rock Landing, Georgia, at which McGillivray toyed with less crafty representatives from the U
23. 18 He seeks out the deep, and the heart, and considers their crafty devices, for the Lord knows all that may be known, and he beholds
24. The cleaner was too crafty for them and simply plumped the pillow up, smiled at her and placed it under her head before smiling again at the officers as he slowly left the scene
25. 5 Let the crafty lips be put to silence and may the Lord destroy all the deceitful lips even the haughty tongue they who said Let us magnify our tongue our lips are our own; who is master over us? 6 On account of the misery of the poor and on account of the groaning of the needy I will now arise says the Lord; I will set him in safety I will deal confidently with him
26. but it was stolen in ancient times by a crafty magician
27. “This crafty magician hid the
28. Beatrice threw a crafty glimpse to me too
29. But be that as it may, I did not burden you myself; nevertheless, crafty fellow that I am, I took you in by deceit
30. There is only Ani, with his lascivious smiles and his crafty eyes and his reaching, probing hands
31. 'It is that devil Conan; he is even wilder than the kozaks, yet he is crafty as a mountain lion
32. ' The law of the elders thus relieves such crafty children of their responsibility, notwithstanding that the children subsequently use all such monies for their own comfort
33. 1 Before Jesus could get started with his teaching, another group came forward to question him, this time a company of the learned and crafty Sadducees
34. Now through the yelling, cursing lines rode the lords of the conquerors—Strabonus, with his broad dark face and crafty eyes; Amalrus, slender, fastidious, treacherous, dangerous as a cobra; and the lean vulture Tsotha-lanti, clad only in silken robes, his great black eyes glittering from a face that was like that of a bird of prey
35. Not easily did we pick up your trail from Tarantia, for the priests of Asura are crafty
36. Then I taste the chained effect as Mommy was done, too, pretty crafty
37. Aureliano Segundo was not aware of the singsong until the following day after breakfast when he felt himself being bothered by a buzzing that was by then more fluid and louder than the sound of the rain, and it was Fernanda, who was walking throughout the house complaining that they had raised her to be a queen only to have her end up as a servant in a madhouse, with a lazy, idola-trous, libertine husband who lay on his back waiting for bread to rain down from heaven while she was straining her kidneys trying to keep afloat a home held together with pins where there was so much to do, so much to bear up under and repair from the time God gave his morning sunlight until it was time to go to bed that when she got there her eyes were full of ground glass, and yet no one ever said to her, “Good morning, Fernanda, did you sleep well?” Nor had they asked her, even out of courtesy, why she was so pale or why she awoke with purple rings under her eyes in spite of the fact that she expected it, of course, from a family that had always considered her a nuisance, an old rag, a booby painted on the wall, and who were always going around saying things against her behind her back, call-ing her church mouse, calling her Pharisee, calling her crafty, and even Amaranta, may she rest in peace, had said aloud that she was one of those people who could not tell their rectums from their ashes, God have mercy, such words, and she had tolerated everything with resig-nation because of the Holy Father, but she had not been able to tolerate it any more when that evil José Arcadio Segundo said that the damnation of the family had come when it opened its doors to a stuck-up highlander, just imagine, a bossy highlander, Lord save us, a highlander daughter of evil spit of the same stripe as the highlanders the government sent to kill workers, you tell me, and he was referring to no one but her, the godchild of the Duke of Alba, a lady of such lineage that she made the liver of presidents’ wives quiver, a noble dame of fine blood like her, who had the right to sign eleven peninsular names and who was the only mortal creature in that town full of bastards who did not feel all confused at the sight of sixteen pieces of silverware, so that her adulterous husband could die of laughter afterward and say that so many knives and forks and spoons were not meant for a human being but for a centipede, and the only one who could tell with her eyes closed when the white wine was served and on what side and in which glass and when the red wine and on what side and in which glass, and not like that peasant of an Amaranta, may she rest in peace, who thought that white wine was served in the daytime and red wine at night, and the only one on the whole coast who could take pride in the fact that she took care of her bodily needs only in golden chamberpots, so that Colonel Aureliano Buendía, may he rest in peace, could have the effrontery to ask her with his Masonic Ill humor where she had received that privilege and wheth-er she did not shit shit but shat sweet basil, just imag-ine, with those very words, and so that Renata, her own daughter, who through an oversight had seen her stool in the bedroom, had answered that even if the pot was all gold and with a coat of arms, what was inside was pure shit, physical shit, and worse even than any other kind because it was stuck-up highland shit, just imagine, her own daughter, so that she never had any illusions about the rest of the family, but in any case she had the right to expect a little more consideration from her husband because, for better or for worse, he was her consecrated spouse her helpmate, her legal despoiler, who took upon himself of his own free and sovereign will the grave responsibility of taking her away from her paternal home, where she never wanted for or suffered from anything, where she wove funeral wreaths as a pastime, since her godfather had sent a letter with his signature and the stamp of his ring on the sealing wax simply to say that the hands of his goddaughter were not meant for tasks of this world except to play the clavichord, and, nevertheless, her insane husband had taken her from her home with all manner of admoni-tions and warnings and had brought her to that frying pan of hell where a person could not breathe because of the heat, and before she had completed her Pentecostal fast he had gone off with his wandering trunks and his wastrel’s accordion to loaf in adultery with a wretch of whom it was only enough to see her behind, well, that’s been said, to see her wiggle her mare’s behind in order to guess that she was a, that she was a, just the opposite of her, who was a lady in a palace or a pigsty, at the table or in bed, a lady of breeding, God-fearing, obeying His laws and submissive to His wishes, and with whom he could not perform, naturally, the acrobatics and trampish antics that he did with the other one, who, of course, was ready for anything like the French matrons, and even worse, if one considers well, because they at least had the honesty to put a red light at their door, swinishness like that, just imagine, and that was all that was needed by the only and beloved daughter of Doña Renata Argote and Don Fernando del Carpio, and especially the latter, an upright man, a fine Christian, a Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher, those who receive direct from God the privilege of remaining intact in their graves with their skin smooth like the cheeks of a bride and their eyes alive and clear like emeralds
38. Their strength of spirit in the face of ruins of the gaming tables, the fritter stands, the shooting galleries, and the alley where they interpreted dreams and predicted the future made Aureliano Segundo ask them with his usual informality what mysterious re-sources they had relied upon so as not to have gone awash in the storm, what the devil they had done so as not to drown, and one after the other, from door to door, they returned a crafty smile and a dreamy look, and without any previous consultation they all gave the answer:
39. One post-dining adventure found them sitting in the parking lot of Walmart laughing at people as they yelled at their children in crafty, half-constructed sentences that hardly made sense!
40. Whatever opinion he once had of Terence Underwood was completely and utterly accurate, for the man was indeed a low, crafty soul
41. The unusual, crafty tactics used by the Americans this morning are also part of her trademarks
42. Perhaps he only wanted to ensure that proper justice was done, regardless of his sentiments towards the young victim, and that there would be no way for Underwood to escape the noose through a crafty solicitor’s arguments that instilled that important shadow of a doubt in the jury’s mind
43. In a strange way she seemed to materialize and vanish at her own will so as to catch her prey off guard—a very crafty and, in this case, crucial ability of which he would be very wary
44. Besides that, she obviously had failed to learn from the mystery novel, or she would have realized that she had been seen in the lobby last night during her venture, but in light of this he recognized that her crafty selection of elevators and pathway during her journey was perhaps intended to confuse or elude any followers and spies
45. How crafty the possibility, Feltus decided, that Elizabeth Bascomb, the frail old woman with this dark and horrible secret, had managed to kill the man who had robbed her of two things—her sight and the companionship of Faye
46. This killer, whoever it is, must be pretty crafty to pull this all off, but they’ll pay once you catch up with them
47. Perhaps catching them off guard with their defenses lowered would result in a verbal mistake or some other faux pas that would indicate their guilt or their involvement in the last murder that could only have just occurred since the séance ended; however, given that the killer was exceedingly cunning as was evidenced by the ingenuity of the planned murders, it would be unlikely that such a crafty individual would be perturbed by a visit or be flustered to the point of making a grievous error
48. ����������� �Ingrid, you are truly a devious, crafty young thing
49. crafty like that; he only wished he knew what it was
50. And he was too crafty to contemplate such an adventure