With considerable cunning

Usage examples of shrewdly.

He was intelligent enough to realise that it was more than probable that Cumshaw possessed knowledge of that almost forgotten episode which was not shared with anyone else, but he had not the least suspicion that his casual utterance would hit home so shrewdly as it did.

Captain Dobbin shrewdly induced him to leave the gardens and hasten to Lambeth Palace, and, when once out of the gates, easily conveyed Mr.

The fortunate owner of this derived quite a little income of meal by shrewdly loaning it to his knifeless comrades.

Tony examined him shrewdly, like a lepidopterist examining a new and rather ugly species of moth.

V Now sleeping once on a day of marvellous fire, A brood of snakes he had cherished in grave regret That death his people had dealt their dam and their sire, Through savage dread of them, crept to his neck, and set Their tongues to lick him: the swift affectionate tongue Of each ran licking the slumberer: then his ears A forked red tongue tickled shrewdly: sudden upsprung, He heard a voice piping: Ay, for he has no fears!

Later, under the name of Madame de Morens, she opened a chocolate shop with David Chaillou whereby she made a great deal of money which she invested shrewdly and became extremely rich, and friendly with literary Parisian society.

Fraisier shrewdly, making his bow to the Presidente with as much graciousness as his countenance could exhibit.

When humanity had been forced from the sprawling Arcologies, it had tried shrewdly to market its scavenging skills among the mech cities.

Yes, the times were good for Gordius, who, as Marius had shrewdly guessed, was not a prince of the old Cappadocian royal house.

Very shrewdly he had declined to ask the Senate for a triumph, though his men had hailed him imperator on the field when he had trounced the Galilaean army near Lake Gennesarus.

She also shrewdly concluded that if Caesar had given his wife a lapdog, Calpurnia would now be surrounded by puppies.

But it was moderate in tone, considering the glittering circumstances, and shrewdly conceived to win the support not only of his own people but of the neutrals and to give the masses in England something to think about.

He did not share the dislike of Aristotle manifested by most of the humanists, for he shrewdly suspected that what was offensive in the Stagyrite was due more to his scholastic translators and commentators than to himself.

Shrewdly, Brady had gone beyond the normal distribution to magazines and newspapers for engravings and woodcuts.

This one was more carefully crafted, more shrewdly conceived than its predecessor.