astucity

“Cov (entry) is practising constantly his astucity upon, and whom he thinks that he deceives.”

George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life

“Lord Ash [burnham] is among many others one whom Cov (entry) is practising constantly his astucity upon, and whom he thinks that he deceives.”

George Selwyn His Letters and His Life

“I do find it is all little other than a proof of toughness, which is a quality I respect, with more or less expenditure of falsity and astucity superadded, which I entirely condemn.”

Latter-Day Pamphlets

“Toughness _plus_ astucity: -- perhaps a simple wooden mast set up in Palace-Yard, well soaped and duly presided over, might be the honester method?”

Latter-Day Pamphlets

“Sometimes, when ascending hills, when the winded horse breathed hard from his nostrils, and heaved his flanks, the captain, left to more freedom of thought, reflected upon the prodigious genius of Aramis, a genius of astucity and intrigue, such as the Fronde and the civil war had produced but two.”

The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After"