clevernesses

My favourite little clevernesses are around the windscreen wipers.

Volkswagen get too clever Brian Clegg 2009

My favourite little clevernesses are around the windscreen wipers.

Archive 2009-11-01 Brian Clegg 2009

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Tell Horton - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Having finally made up his mind as to the insoluble nature of the female problem, he seems inclined to discard mere clevernesses and prettinesses and to advance into the broad arena of real life, with its diversity of actors and its multiplicity of interests.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

And he put out his hand and, by those little clevernesses of manner which he understood so well, made it impossible for Hallowell to go with him to Dorothy.

Grain of Dust. 1911

With your fire-tubes, your handling of troops, and your other fiendish clevernesses, you may not be easy to overthrow by mere human means, though, forsooth, these poor rebels who yap against your city walls have contrived to hold their ground for long enough now.

The Lost Continent Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne 1905

For Tanqueray could be cruel in his contempt for all clevernesses and littlenesses, for all achievements that had the literary taint; but he was on his knees in a moment before the incorruptible divinities.

The Creators A Comedy May Sinclair 1904

And he put out his hand and, by those little clevernesses of manner which he understood so well, made it impossible for Hallowell to go with him to Dorothy.

The Grain of Dust David Graham Phillips 1889

One finds it is by these fine points, these obvious clevernesses that Fitch paved the way to popular success.

Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The Moth and the Flame Clyde Fitch 1887

Having fallen into the common scrape, -- having been pleased by her prettinesses and clevernesses and women's ways, -- I did as so many other men have done.

John Caldigate Anthony Trollope 1848