"Slyness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... biggest blunder was in underestimating your intelligence. I thought I could play hob with you; but I was a fool." His face gave me a certain impression of slyness, which I did n't at ...
— The Paternoster Ruby • Charles Edmonds Walk
... to be feared that Mr. Torrance is now taking advantage of his superior slyness. 'Still, ...
— Echoes of the War • J. M. Barrie
... and his hat a little more on one side than his head, (but that was evidently accident; not his ordinary way of wearing it,) with such a pleasant smile playing about his mouth, and such a comical expression of mingled slyness, simplicity, kind-heartedness, and good-humour, lighting up his jolly old face, that Nicholas would have been content to have stood there and looked at him until evening, and to have forgotten, meanwhile, that there was such a thing as a soured mind or a crabbed countenance to be met with ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens
... of the middling and poorer classes, have certainly less sincerity and straight-forwardness than their neighbours. An anecdote is related illustrative of the slyness of the Bohemians, compared with the simple honesty of the German, and the candid unscrupulousness of the Hungarian: "During the late war, three soldiers, of each of these three nations, met in the parlour of ...
— Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family • Andrew Archibald Paton
... midnight to lead Tsiganok to the execution he began to bustle about and seemed to have recovered his spirits. Again he had that sweet taste in his mouth, and his saliva collected abundantly, but his cheeks turned rosy and in his eyes began to glisten his former somewhat savage slyness. Dressing himself he asked ...
— The Seven who were Hanged • Leonid Andreyev
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