How To Use Sagacious In A Sentence
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All the more perhaps for that, she was born sagacious, which is a less pleasing, but, in a bitter pinch, a more really useful, quality.
Erema — My Father's Sin
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Enter the ethics expert, who sagaciously counseled the company executive to put a halt to the practice of entertaining clients at strip joints.
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Wise business management, and more particularly what is spoken of as safe and sane business management, therefore, reduces itself in the main to a sagacious use of sabotage; that is to say a sagacious limitation of productive processes to something less than the productive capacity of the means in hand.
An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
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His extreme youth, too, prepossessed the councillors in his favour, the rather that no one could easily believe that the sagacious Louis would have chosen so very young a person to become the confidant of political intrigues; and thus the King enjoyed, in this, as in other cases, considerable advantage from his singular choice of agents, both as to age and rank, where such election seemed least likely to be made.
Quentin Durward
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And this time Boerab had found a magnificent cock pheasant quivering beside the slingstone, and Urkut had sagaciously denied any miraculous powers while putting his slingstone away.
The Magic May Return
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The sagacious Hugh Hewitt explains the importance of the election.
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Another was picked up by one of the Adelaide travelers, who very sagaciously threw it away [typical], but thinks he can find it again.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Lucretius is constantly urging his readers to follow their “sagacious” wits to the truth, like dogs hunting down quarry through the underbrush.
The Nose Knows : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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They have none of the sagaciousness of the low-born Italian, none of the wit and penetration of the French _ouvriere_.
The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls
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Stanley Kubrick's sagacious adaptation of Anthony Burgess' controversial novel assaults the screen with snakes, Ludwig van, and more than a bit of the old ultra-violence.
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Forty years after Benjamin worked in Palmer's printing-office, he visited England in the service of his country, widely known as a sagacious statesman and profound philosopher.
The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth.
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Yet even calumny is sagacious enough to discover and to attack the most vulnerable part.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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If, as many true-blue Tories believe, Canadians are at heart a conservative, sagacious people in need of honest leadership, the party will find success at the polls on its own terms.
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Together, Hilliard and Rathman produce a sagacious survey of the tradition of hero-worship, and foster insightful tension between conventional and unorthodox imagery of virility.
Bill Bush: Too Many Openings, Too Little Time: This Artweek.LA (February 14-20)
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The one thing that really -- the case in point in this is how she gushed personally when the Democrats were praising the sagaciousness and independence of Iowa voters.
CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2007
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And the mere fact that the problem of achromatism was solved by "the mind of a sagacious optician inquiring how this matter was managed in the eye," no more proves that
A Candid Examination of Theism
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Animals civilise a building, and it is a pity that the Prime Minister's wife, no cat-lover, was blamed for the dismissal of Humphrey, a dignified and sagacious mouser.
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In such a state, he persisted in the belief that Confederate victory was possible long after even the least sagacious of his advisers had accepted defeat as inevitable.
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But the sagacious Kerry O'Brien, well-known for his archival knowledge in such matters, did advise that there was some debate about the most reliable sources for evidence about the Australian frontier.
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But he was a good businessman, and Arnold had occasionally wondered whether Freddie Keeler was a deal more sagacious than he appeared.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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Satan retreated, hid himself, surreptitiously arose again, awaited his chance, taking advantage of unguarded and weak moments, and in one word demeaned himself as a very live and sagacious Satan.
The Bride of Dreams
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Paradoxically, the sagacious and shrewdly written new column entitled ‘Nightmarch’ is hidden away at the bottom of the antepenultimate page.
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Paradoxically, the sagacious and shrewdly written new column entitled ‘Nightmarch’ is hidden away at the bottom of the antepenultimate page.
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He perceived in his deep sagaciousness woman at the bottom of her remark, and replied: 'You will know Clotilde in time.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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As Neil from "The Young Ones" once sagaciously pointed out, the problem with crucifixion as a form of suicide is that "there's no way you can hammer in the last nail.
Bikes and Beatitudes: The Salmon on the Mount
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Sharansky is not infallible, but he is probably the most sagacious voice in Israeli politics today.
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Robert Burton threw light on the "capriciousness" and accidentally of this kind of (apparent) amorous preference when he wrote that "it is impossible, almost, for two young folks equal in years to live together and not be in love;" and further he says, sagaciously:
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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What shadow of reason," he asks, "is there for doubting that such sales as are necessary and inevitable will be far more sagaciously managed by a Local Board, which the ratepayers elect _for this sole purpose_, than either by magistrates who are irresponsible and do not suffer sensibly from the public vice, or by an _irresponsible_ or _multitudinous_ Committee of Parliament?
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
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The judge lifts a sagacious hand, rhythmically lifting it up and down as if patting all the lawyers on the head.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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Edwards is passionate and genuine, Kerry smooth and sagacious; if they simply speak naturally, and not from a list of talking points, they will persuade voters.
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Yet the interminable self-contemplation, articulate and sagacious though it is, proves to be a bit too much of a good thing, and this gray, humorless, dispassionate novel eventually sinks under the weight of it all.
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The Greek philosophers used to talk eloquently and sagaciously, but they never felt the need of experimentation to prove their theories.
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English skulls; and the sagacious Mr. Combe has placed this organ at the back of the head, in juxtaposition to that of destructiveness, which is equally large among our countrymen, as is notably evinced upon all railings, seats, temples, and other things-belonging to other people.
Paul Clifford — Volume 01
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He is a sagacious businessman.
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He patted the brown Waler, who pricked his sagacious ears and threw up his handsome bluntish head in acknowledgment of his master's caress.
The Dop Doctor
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_A dinner party, and fortune in good humour: The opera house, and small talk: Sagacious female discoveries: Olivia, and the art of fascinating: An old acquaintance suddenly seen and dreaded, though despised: Timely recollection: The opera great room, and more discoveries_
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
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After the conversation between the Angel and Adam in the bower, it may be well presumed that our first parent waited on his heavenly guest at his departure to some little distance from it, till he began to take his flight towards heaven; and therefore "sagaciously" thinks that the poet could not with propriety say that the angel parted from the _thick shade_, that is, the _bower_, to go to heaven.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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Where has this sagacious highbrow been all our lives?
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This is a profound practice performed by sagacious sannyasins especially.
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The judge lifts a sagacious hand, rhythmically lifting it up and down as if patting all the lawyers on the head.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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But he was a good businessman, and Arnold had occasionally wondered whether Freddie Keeler was a deal more sagacious than he appeared.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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Chodin sagaciously observes: Lance has never lost a thumb wrestle.
BOLL BASHES INDY, WON’T FIGHT ME
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Marcy, the New Yorker whose elevation had nettled the Van Buren forces, emerged as able, sagacious, and loyal—in short, a highly valuable lieutenant.
A Country of Vast Designs
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John Kerry is sagacious and experienced, but he has an elitist sounding accent that will make it impossible for him to win a national campaign in the media age.
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The budding politico sagaciously put his arm around Ashalea and explained that the Berlin Wall ran down the middle of a ‘communist country’ known as Berlin.
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So saying, the contemplative and ever-sagacious Tomlinson tossed off his bumper; and the pair, having kindly rolled by pedal applications the body of Long Ned into a safe and quiet corner of the room, mounted the stairs, arm-in-arm, in search of somnambular accommodations.
Paul Clifford — Complete
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At one point, a particularly sagacious observation was shouted out in a distinctive Texas lilt right behind me and I realized I'd been sitting two feet away from Sam the whole time without realizing it.
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Instead of protecting his son, he is obsessed with wiping out the man who murdered his wife, despite John Rooney's sagacious observation that Mike is nothing more than a murderer himself.
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In his room I told him about this farmer, word for word; and I sat picking at the table cover like one bereft of sagaciousness.
The Gentle Grafter
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The sagacious Romans saw that in order to control the line of the Danube and the east coast of Italy it was necessary to absorb the triangular shaped country of the Illyrians.
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He tried merrily all the dog-names he could think of; but when at last he called, “Toto!” the poodle barked so cordially that François sagaciously inclined to the belief that he must have hit upon the poodle's name.
Finding a Little Too Much in Oz
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He was a man of large wealth, and well known as a sagacious financier.
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians
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Rational Review
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But it is always a delicate matter to fathom the depth of a medical man's sagaciousness.
Archibald Malmaison
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It is said that the organ of carving upon wood is prominently developed on all English skulls; and the sagacious Mr. Combe has placed this organ at the back of the head, in juxtaposition to that of destructiveness, which is equally large among our countrymen, as is notably evinced upon all railings, seats, temples, and other things-belonging to other people.
Paul Clifford — Complete
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It was not, however, till of late years that the sagacious Indians discovered that the castoreum was a certain bait for the animals themselves.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
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And _All elephants are sagacious_ does not limit sagacity to elephants: regarding 'sagacious' as possibly denoting many animals of many species that exhibit the quality, this proposition is equivalent to '_All elephants are_ some _sagacious animals_.'
Logic Deductive and Inductive
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They are, every one, men of great wisdom and ponderous sagaciousness.
Mistborn
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As Captain Bunting sagaciously remarked, "most things come to a climax suddenly.
The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West
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The sheep person helped her off; and they stood throwing each other sentences all sprightful and sagacious for a while.
Heart of the West [Annotated]
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Both the parties have sagaciously stuck to their strongholds.
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Casino on sundry occasions, and sagaciously preferring places within the range of her experience to bourns neither cognate nor conjecturable, she moved gravely up towards the gate on which the Italian sat; and, after eying him a moment, -- as much as to say, "I wish you would get off," -- came to a deadlock.
My Novel — Volume 04
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However, his deeply felt and meticulously researched rhetoric conveyed in all his books is hard hitting, provocative and sagacious.
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But he was a good businessman, and Arnold had occasionally wondered whether Freddie Keeler was a deal more sagacious than he appeared.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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He was wise and sagacious, but prone to dissension and his spirit was that of calmness under fire.
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Certain it is that the maid's speech communicated a suspicion to the mind of Amelia which the behaviour of the serjeant did not tend to remove: what that is, the sagacious readers may likewise probably suggest to themselves; if not, they must wait our time for disclosing it.
Amelia — Complete
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Animals civilise a building, and it is a pity that Mrs Blair, no cat-lover, was blamed for the dismissal of Humphrey, a dignified and sagacious mouser.
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Philippe Noiret, the sagacious French veteran, plays the mentor Alfredo in this life story of Salvatore "Toto" Di Vitto, a director manque' depicted as a child by Salvatore Cascio.
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‘He joined a team that was already doing well,’ the sagacious Frenchman added.
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He was sittin 'behind the counter upon the lang three-leggit stool that stood fornent Mr. Weft's desk, and was turning ower the leaves of his ledger, wi' a look which, for auld-fashioned sagaciousness, was wonderfu 'to behold.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827
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Some sagacious musketeers wore metal skullcaps, called ‘secrets’, beneath their hats.
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Therefore, I should advise my sagacious countrymen, if ever again they wish to trumpet about for thirty years a very commonplace person as a great genius, not to choose for the purpose such a beerhouse-keeper physiognomy as was possessed by that philosopher, upon whose face nature had written, in her clearest characters, the familiar inscription, “commonplace person.”
Religion
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Yesterday, we were amazed when the sagacious Digby praised this post from John Aravosis.
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If I am so -- so pretty," she said slowly, to herself, "people ought to like me, and," sagaciously, "I must be pretty or he would not say so.
Vagabondia 1884
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Kudos to Mike Diehl, Edward Palumbo, et al. Why, has it not been on This Great Blog Itself that hunters have often been criticized (just recently, a wizened old codger related how he and a companion sagaciously enjoyed the wild countryside while riding behind two unwitting computer-geek-hunters … and so on and so forth)?
See Us in the Funny Pages
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observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions
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The judge lifts a sagacious hand, rhythmically lifting it up and down as if patting all the lawyers on the head.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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All the more perhaps for that, she was born sagacious, which is
Erema
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I think this is similar to the technique of assigning epithets, often poetic, to various characters in oral tradition, such as these examples from Orphic Hymns: "Poseidon, ruler of the sea profound, dark-haired, whose waves begirt the solid ground" or "Righteous Themis, with sagacious eyes.
Oral Tradition, Epithets, and J.D. Robb
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These two words connote at once a corporeal indwelling of the Divine (a Divine madness which is necessary for the making of sagacious, artistic utterance), and an empty, arrogant persiflage (as in being puffed up, or ‘blowing hot air’).
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But whatever might be their blunders and aukwardness, the sagacious Kieft, declared them to be of but little importance — since, as he judiciously observed, one campaign would be of more instruction to them than a hundred parades; for though two-thirds of them might be food for powder, yet such of the other third as did not run away, would become most experienced veterans.
A History of New York
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Neither did Barriss, " Anakin pointed out sagaciously, -until they abducted her.
The Cat is a Metaphor
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He's buzzing with ideas, opinions and sagacious thoughts.
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Chief Seattle's sagacious words are timelier now than ever before: Man did not weave the web of life, he's merely a strand in it.
Dr. Reese Halter: Thanksgiving 2011: Earth Calling... SOS
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At least it could hardly be called sagacious generalship on the part of the stadholder.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609)
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an astute and sagacious statesman
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He didn't seem to pick up on my sarcasm, because he just nodded sagaciously and replied, ‘That they are.’
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The mammoth was a monster beast, with perhaps somewhat less of sagaciousness than the modern elephant, but with a temper which was demoniacal when aroused, and with a strength which nothing could resist.
The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man
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No, no, not quite all, said Pleydell, winking sagaciously; there are some interrogatories which I shall delay till to-morrow, for it is time, I believe, to close the sederunt for this night, or rather morning.
Chapter L
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And Detective Coyle said it the best the other day in court, under oath, he was pretty sagacious, when he said the only one I can eliminate is himself.