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  • Saxon went in and interviewed the shopkeeper, an emaciated, shrewd-eyed and middle-aged woman of foreign extraction.

    CHAPTER VI 2010

  • A few shrewd-eyed kids watched me drive by, their hand-me-down bikes at the ready to peddle off.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • A few shrewd-eyed kids watched me drive by, their hand-me-down bikes at the ready to peddle off.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • At the forefront was the bandit-chief, a red-faced, shrewd-eyed bull of a man.

    Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • The face was good and strong, shrewd-eyed and humorous, spoilt only by his cold-reddened nose.

    Sharpe's Enemy Cornwell, Bernard 1984

  • Grace Cormet saw a well-kempt man in his middle forties, flat-waisted, shrewd-eyed, hard but urbane.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • Nobody but Ruth and Tony, and possibly shrewd-eyed Sue, suspected a quarrel, but everybody was curious and ready to burst into interrogation upon the simultaneous return of the two young men which was quite as sudden as their vanishing had been.

    Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Margaret Rebecca Piper

  • He was a middle-aged, shrewd-eyed fellow with a brisk voice.

    The Dancing Druids Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1948

  • Judge Markham, shrewd-eyed student of human nature, settled back behind the massive mahogany bench.

    The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970 1936

  • Paris thronged with American business buyers -- those clever, capable, shrewd-eyed women who swarm on the city in June and strip it of its choicest flowers, from ball gowns to back combs.

    Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926

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