shrewd

• The latter, as before stated, was known as a shrewd lawyer, of great quickness of perception, high cultivation, and some grasp of mind; but there was little belief among the people that he was fit to control a department demanding decision and independence, combined with intimate knowledge of military matters. —  Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
• But these negroes were shrewd, and had the idea of liberty uppermost in their minds. —  Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
• They were the usual shrill, shrewd, and laughing line--the trade seems to induce high mirth--and as such no bait for the old merchant by ordinary; but just now the sun and breeze together made a bright patch of them, set them at a provoking flutter. —  Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
• It is full of shrewd, and prudent, and wise, sometimes almost worldly-wise, counsel. —  Friendship
• A jolly man was Mr. Meagles; but clear-headed, shrewd, and persevering Mrs. Meagles_, wife of the “practical man,” and mother of Pet.--C. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3

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