cunning,

‘For fear he should give me the slip, by any chance,’ observed Squeers, when he had finished, looking very cunning,

Nicholas Nickleby 2007

“I should like to know why Kartinkin invited only Maslova, and none of the other girls, for the lodgers?” said the public prosecutor, with half-closed eyes and a cunning,

Resurrection 2003

She watched Augusta fidgeting on the grass and said with maternal cunning,

Tulips For Augusta Neels, Betty 1971

One, whom the city imprisoned because of his cunning,

The House of Dust: A Symphony 1920

And in the Odyssey also he has made mention of it in these verses: “Such had the daughter of Zeus, such drugs of exquisite cunning,

An Account of Egypt: Being the Second Book of His Histories Called Euterpe. Paras. 40-59 Herodotus 1909

Then "Alas!" cried the maid, all crafty and cunning,

The Friar in the Well 2 1906

DOOLITTLE [sad but magnanimous] They played you off very cunning,

Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw 1903

Convinced that she had lost the battle and forgetting her cunning,

The Son of Clemenceau Alexandre Dumas fils 1859

And 'twill be hard if hate, well leagued with cunning,

Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. I. I. Norman Maurice, a Tragedy; II. Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea; III. Tales and Traditions of the South; IV. The City of the Silent 1853

In the hundred and one personal combats and trials of cunning,

It Is Never Too Late to Mend Charles Reade 1849