sagacious

• A few sketches of public characters may suffice to show with what sagacious, all-observing eyes, she looked about her At the whig caucus, I heard TRISTAM BURGESS,—“The old bald Eagle!” His baldness increases the fine effect of his appearance, for it seems as if the locks had retreated, that the contour of his very strongly marked head might be revealed to every eye. —  Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. I
• The Romans not only considered it perfectly honorable, sagacious, and praiseworthy for a member of the political aristocracy to marry a rich woman for her wealth, the better to maintain the luster of his rank, or the more easily to fulfil his particular political and social duties, but they also believed there could be no better luck or greater honor for a rich woman than for this reason to marry a prominent man. —  The Women of the Caesars
• It is calm, sagacious, and, according to the fashion of the age, slightly Machiavellian. —  Bacon
• Equally sagacious was an Irish fox, which, pursued by the hounds, was seen by a farmer, while he was ploughing a field, to run along in the furrow directly before him. —  Stories of Animal Sagacity
• Adroitly and skilfully it has been manipulated by some of the most brilliant, sagacious, and resolute agitators Ireland has ever known. —  The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886.

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