craftie

• “They be a kind of craftie people, worse then the Iewes.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “Gentles be put two or three dayes before into a box or horn anointed with Honey, and so put upon your hook, as to preserve them to be living, you are as like to kill this craftie fish this way as any other; but still as you are fishing, chaw a little white or brown bread in your mouth, and cast it into the Pond about the place where your flote swims.”

  The Compleat Angler

• “December 21, 2007 at 9:36 am yep i fink iz stoopy troll, butz craftie….gibz 3 burgerz…..nawt jest wun…..”

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• “Thei are men of a proude nature, busie medlers, and sedicious, craftie, deceiptfull, malaparte, and vnshamefaced: for thei holde opinion that it becometh the man as well to be Sterne, as the woman to be milde.”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

• “Our former named two craftie Companions, seeing Guccio Porco so seriously employed about Nuta, was there-with not a little contented, because their intended labour was now more then halfe ended.”

  The Decameron

• “A Cicilian Courtezane, named Madame Biancafiore, by her craftie wit and policie, deceived a young Merchant, called Salabetto, of all the money he had taken for his Wares at Palermo.”

  The Decameron

• “Did not I cut this thred from thy great toe, tyed it to mine, and found the craftie compact betweene thee and thy”

  The Decameron

• “For craftie they are, and full of falshood, circumuenting all men whom they are able, by their sleights.”

  The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini

• “They be martial, delighting in faire horses and good harnesse, soone angrie, craftie and hard people.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “In the meane season Offa by often legacies solicited Charles le maigne the king of France, to be his friend: albeit he could not easily finde king Charles any whit enclined to further and promote his craftie attempts.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

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