"Shrewdly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me with the time, sir?" asked the young man; and the citizen, shrewdly conjecturing his watch to be safe, dragged it out ...
— The Four Million • O. Henry
... talking for her own benefit," watching her shrewdly. "If there's any acting about it, she's playing Ophelia and Hamlet and the audience all at once.—Was it Doctor McCall you fancied was in ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 • Various
... to push the adventure in Virginia, they had turned to Bermuda, where an initial success seems to have encouraged another try in Virginia. The plans adopted for Bermuda and later for Virginia indicate that the adventurers shrewdly capitalized on the desire of Englishmen in many different walks of life for title to the undeveloped lands of America. A newly stirring missionary impulse had its part to play, if only by giving to the name of Virginia more helpful associations. Argall had captured Pocahontas, the ...
— The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624 • Wesley Frank Craven
... shoulder towards the after end of the ship. "That's the blooming way to do 'em!" he yelped, with forced heartiness. Jimmy said:—"Don't be a dam' fool," in a pleasant voice. Knowles, rubbing his shoulder against the doorpost, remarked shrewdly:—"We can't all go an' be took sick—it would be mutiny."—"Mutiny—gawn!" jeered Donkin, "there's no bloomin' law against bein' sick."—"There's six weeks' hard for refoosing dooty," argued Knowles, "I mind I once seed in Cardiff the crew of an overloaded ship—leastways ...
— The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" - A Tale Of The Forecastle • Joseph Conrad
... victim happened to be an angry sufferer from a too personal reference to his affairs in the paper, Field would make the most profuse apologies for the scant furnishings of the office, which he shrewdly ascribed to the poverty of the publishing company, and tender his own chair as some ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson
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