clever

• Thus we may take Bourrienne as a clever, able man, who would have risen to the highest honours under the Empire had not his short-sighted grasping after lucre driven him from office, and prevented him from ever regaining it under Napoleon. —  The Memoirs of Napoleon
• The father-in-law of Tallien is a banker, what you call a clever fellow; another word, says the most sensible man here, for a cheat; the court and the clergy mutually support each other, and their combined despotism is indeed dreadful, yet much is doing; Jardine is very active; he has forwarded the establishment of schools in the Asturias with his Spanish friends. —  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
• Out of the ten, three seemed to be good possibilities. —  Cry Mercy Cry Love
• Fixed. Oh, he was clever--clever, my word That ended that. —  If Winter Comes
• “That's all right!” he said, “But are you sure you don't want simply to make a bit of a name — to be known as a clever man? —  Father Payne

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