How To Use Wily In A Sentence
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Combined with the snowily austere imagery of the scene, the effect is chilling.
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A wily fox will outrun a pack of hounds, but never a bullet.
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Politics is wily, skilled and intelligent, not clumsy and ham-handed.
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Foxes are supposed to be wily creatures.
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He has been a wily politician and he knows that the land issue is an over-simplification.
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Large schools of old wives, bullseyes and big trevally, too wily for the fishermen, took refuge here.
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But the southpaw was able to avert further trouble as he got both Sean Casey and Wily Mo Pena to foul out.
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But he's a wily old shark.
The Sun
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The skill of stitchery is developed as the kids sew the likes of the ‘Wily Wire Walker’ and the ‘Amazing Aerialist.’
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As it turns out, uneducated village communists are no match for wily bourgeois sneakiness.
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In the middle of the 20th century, the carp was viewed as being so wily as to be almost uncatchable.
Times, Sunday Times
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I once read an article about a guy who corralled a herd of particularly wily mustangs by just quietly pushing them from 3 miles back.
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My relationship with the company dates to 1988 when I watched rehearsals for Don Giovanni and heard Alan Held, a young bass-baritone who brought a rich sound and assured acting to the role of Giovanni's wily servant.
Susan Dormady Eisenberg: As Wolf Trap Opera Marks 40th Year, 14 Star Alumni to Return for Benefit Concert
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Cunning eyes, wily grins, pesky faces had beamed tenacity and aptness and survival.
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The ‘wave wilderness wily wild’ draws the poet together with ‘surf kindlers in the riddle splash,’ who like her possess an ‘ocean plan for a soupy ride’.
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For it would seem that the wily old fox has finally outfoxed himself by falling prey to an inherent weakness that involves opening his mouth precipitately.
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The 7th West Virginia swiftly countermarched to the Valley and again found themselves pursuing the wily Confederate commander.
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But the incidents and the relationships developed along the way give it a wily balance of farce and sentiment.
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Also, in the final strip, there's a fine caricature of a Wily's Overland, rather than the standard Jeep, which would have been easier to draw.
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Vice, including the deviancy of art, was the prerogative of the elderly, wily north, and in White's novels it ravages a southern society that is only virtuous because it lacks imagination.
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Springy of the justly curl about that he lapidarian it laudably and that you feoff to get tillable on sin and showily a rube in the monarch is unsubtle.
Rational Review
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But De Vaux was influenced only by his general prejudices, which dictated to him the assured belief that a wily Italian priest, a false-hearted Scot, and an infidel physician, formed a set of ingredients from which all evil, and no good, was likely to be extracted.
The Talisman
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He's a very wily fox and also a long-time player.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sergeant Reed is bibulously on the job again, drinking his wily way through another murder investigation.
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Drug revelations aside, the claims of exuberant youth versus wily experience will be a central issue.
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He's a wily, nefarious skunk, is what he is, gang.
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Key events sometimes occur between scenes, or just off-screen; our only access to them then comes through competing accounts, each with their own partial perspective and wily agenda.
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Yet the wily Pinot Noir grape is best suited to cooler, less sunny climes.
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Completing the family portrait are his ever-compliant wife and wily old dad.
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It is veteran versus tyro, wily old fox against bristling young cub, a man who has done it all against a boy who threatens to do it all.
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His ticket to Urumchi did not, as he thought, guarantee a journey, but was, more aptly, an invitation to join in the melee, a circus of inseverable wrangling in which the strong, the wily and dogged, prevailed.
Heaven Lake
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He's red hot on the form book and is a wily old bird to turn to when I need advice.
FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
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Fernandes' informal wear had that wily old politician and general Fidel Ramos envious.
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Wily lookouts kept watch for German guards, calling out codewords as a warning.
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Now the Gotham Chamber Opera, which performed Haydn's Il mondo della luna in January to great acclaim, is taking a crack at the wily feline -- staging the opera El gato con botas by Spanish composer Xavier Montsalvatge with Tectonic Theater Project.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Orlando, El Gato Con Botas, Meow Meow
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It is as close as the wily McGahern will get to admitting ulterior motives for writing such a personal book.
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No longer dishing out the Clough edge of his tongue, the best manager never to have led England, remains a wily old fox.
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Experience Capcom's classic platformer on mobile. Control Mega Man and his dog, Rush, on an epic journey to defeat the nefarious Dr. Wily and his deadly robot masters.
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He might have been a 33-year-old veteran but the wily Aussie was still a quality performer.
Times, Sunday Times
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We should be in France, of course, but our teacher is wily, and has finagled for us a few days in England first.
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The Oz, being more of a wily fox, eschewed tabloidism and was much more sympathetic to the fallen leader.
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She again burst forth, for nature having given her considerable abilities, had lent her at the same time an energy of passion, far superior in power to the cold ambition of Irene, or the wily, ambidexter, shuffling policy of the Emperor.
Count Robert of Paris
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Where is now the enthusiastic Gironde, where the volcanic mountain, the fiery, and eloquent Mirabeau, the wily Brissot, the atheistic Lequinios, the remorseless Marat, the bloody St. Just, and the chief of the deplumed and fallen legions of equality?
The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.
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Mining, with gunpowder now replacing the pig-fat of yesteryear, might accelerate the process, but a wily defender would have prepared countermine galleries of his own, and a wet ditch presented particular problems.
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This colorless face expressed patience, commercial shrewdness, and the sort of wily cupidity which is needful in business.
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
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Proverbially wily, coyotes are also a little demonic, and their dogginess only adds to the sense of lurking menace.
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Cross much furniture and do not represent surely showily , meet a person bring crowded, narrow sense only instead.
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Imagine discovering this, one of the most snowily romantic of works, in an overwhelming performance and recording.
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He is a wily politician, skilled at exploiting nationalist feeling.
Times, Sunday Times
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For it would seem that the wily old fox has finally outfoxed himself by falling prey to an inherent weakness that involves opening his mouth precipitately.
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The Dissenting pastor moaned over his stray lambling — if such a little, wily, mischievous monster could be called a lamb at all.
The Virginians
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Still smarting from the terrible interruption to their plans by those cunning security measures in airports - what wily geniuses the enemy are to have thought of making the check-in staff ask such questions!
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Wherein is declared, what craft and subtilty some wily wits can devise, to deceive the simple, and compasse their owne desires.
The Decameron
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Calisto yearns for Melibea and attains her with the aid of a wily procuress, after which the lovers promptly die.
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He was outwitted by his wily opponent.
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It caused uproar at the time, but the wily Italian must be sitting back with a smug smile, puffing on that metaphorical cigar.
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Out at Hillside the stones that demarcate the territory of an old-fashioned house are new and snowily whitewashed.
Pipefuls
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That is what they called Sean Quinn - canny conglomerateur to his friends, wily rogue to his enemies and, until recently, the richest man in
NYT > Home Page
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And similar admiration for wily politicians who can bend and break election laws with brass and canniness -- even begrudging from the opposition -- is yet another proud Texas tradition.
Rob Patterson: Let's Thank Ronnie Earle for Tom DeLay's Conviction
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This witty, wily challenger of all that we know or think we know about life and art, truth and illusion, beauty and beastliness, is brushing up against my thoughts once again.
Tamsin Smith: Nabokov's Other Gift
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He said: 'This is a wily old fox.
The Sun
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Lyricism combines with charm, with the soloist's technical virtuosity ever-present, but never indulged in showily for its own sake.
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The wily old fox could well pull it off and have us all enthused about the show again.
The Sun
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It had also distanced itself -- as much as was possible -- from the present government foreign policy by alleging that it was not based on consensus and fervently pursued a 'swadeshi' economic policy that allegedly sought to keep India safe from the clutches of wily 'foreign' powers.
Asian Tribune
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But tobacco is a wily and vengeful beast, and one not disposed to look kindly on those who jilt him.
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For it would seem that the wily old fox has finally outfoxed himself by falling prey to an inherent weakness that involves opening his mouth precipitately.
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The wily old fox could well pull it off and have us all enthused about the show again.
The Sun
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In verity, the foreign debt issue has already put Zambia on a wild economic frontier in this wily world.
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As a wily guerilla leader and resistance fighter, he deserves respect.
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Since his talents broke out of the conservatoire in the mid-noughties, British pianist Gwilym Simcock started insisting that composition was by no means a second string to the keyboard virtuosity that attracted plaudits from jazz stars as big as Chick Corea and Lee Konitz.
This week's new live music
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If someone temporarily forced him into a direct look by speaking to him, then this extremely unharmonious face, jagging angularly in all its features, would become somewhat reserved, wily, shifting, and downright hypocritical.
Archive 2007-12-01
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June seemed a little tardy here, but the elder, the rose, and the panicled cornel were almost ready, the button-bushes were showing ivory, while the arrow-wood, fully open, was glistening snowily everywhere, its tiny flower crowns falling and floating in patches down-stream, its over-sweet breath hanging heavy in the morning mist.
Roof and Meadow
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So this is a wily old fox who is more than capable of getting something in place to beat us, for sure.
Times, Sunday Times
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Springy of the justly curl about that he lapidarian it laudably and that you feoff to get tillable on sin and showily a rube in the monarch is unsubtle.
Rational Review
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His voice died in a hard sob of imploring agony, -- smitten to the very soul by a remorse greater than he could bear, his strength failed him, and he fell senseless, face forward among the flowers of the Prophet's field; .. flowers that, circling snowily around his dark and prostrate form, looked like fairy garlands bordering
Ardath
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Not to be outdone, Dean Clancy, a Tea Party health policy analyst, wrote that, "I fear it's not the brainy Ryan who has pulled off a coup, but rather the wily Wyden, a dyed-in-the-wool progressive who makes no secret of wanting single-payer, government-run health care.
Menachem Rosensaft: Ron Wyden: Forging Common Ground on Medicare Reform
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London come to hear or impart the news; and the affairs of the state or of private individuals, the quarrels of empires or of authors, the movements of the court, or the splendid vagaries of fashion, the intrigues of statesmen or of persons of another sex yet more wily, the last news of battles in the great occidental continents, nay, the latest betting for the horse-races, or the advent of a dancer at the theatre -- all that men do is discussed in these Pall Mall agorae, where we of London daily assemble.
Roundabout Papers
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But within minutes the wily beetle has dragged the spider across a hillock of red earth and crammed it into its small hole.
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And the Red Knight was a wily knight of war, and his wily fighting taught Sir Beaumains to be wise; but he abought it full sore or he did espy his fighting.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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His appointment as prime minister owed much to the wily manoeuvring of the President.
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Red poinsettias lend hits of Christmas color upstairs and down, flanking the snowily dressed bed in the master bedroom.
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Through his poem "Plain Language from Truthful James," Harte created a wily Chinaman who outwits his Anglo gambling opponents.
Bret Harte (1836-1902)
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But Ancelotti is a wily old fox.
The Sun
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You might think that fly fishermen engaged in a struggle of wits with the wily brown trout would welcome anything that could give them the upper hand.
Times, Sunday Times
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The champion is a wily old bird however and Arthur was unable to press home his advantage.
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The wily old fox of cricket had his guests enthralled by witty conversation, which ran late into the night.
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Enduring it all, I remained optimistic that my path would cross again soon with this unique Wunderfledermauskind: Bat Boy, who himself remained out in the world—too wily to hunt down like an animal, too wily to capture, even too subliterate to interview.
Going Mutant
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There is gossip, friendship, coquetry and wily bargain amid the whiff of condiments and pickles.
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So Dalilah the Wily is noted to be a philosopheress.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Dish hair, showily and decorous; Bingle , have individual character quite contemporary breath, and long hair provided more Wen Wan's moving model for the bride.
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With the smallest luck, he and Fossell ought to be more than a match for a pair of whom, if one (Miss Gabriel) was wily, the other played a game not usually distinguishable from bumble-puppy.
Major Vigoureux
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And so one might wonder: If Jesus disdained showy prayer, how would he feel about showily praying politicians?
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His character, a wily bank robber, is feigning a stroke.
Times, Sunday Times
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a wily old attorney
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Dish hair, showily and decorous; Bingle , have individual character quite contemporary breath, and long hair provided more Wen Wan's moving model for the bride.
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It was noised abroad in the city that Calamity Ahmad had undertaken to lay hands on Dalilah the Wily, and Zaynab said to her, “O my mother, an thou be indeed a trickstress, do thou befool Ahmad al-Danaf and his company.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Within 24 hr of the announcement, wily business pilots had figured out the plan was full of holes.
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It is veteran versus tyro, wily old fox against bristling young cub, a man who has done it all against a boy who threatens to do it all.
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So when on ivory thrones they rested, snowily gleaming,
Poems and Fragments
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Hardy and wily, the pigs snuffle out acorns, chestnuts, roots and grass.
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But how many of us realize that the patriotic ‘gunboat’ musicals popular at the turn of the century regularly put wily, double-dealing villains before the public?
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He became a wily old fox.
Kevin Keegan - Black and White
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At first the stranger laughed at my tears and my agony, as the hysterical passion of a deluded and overreached wanton, or the wily affection of a courtezan.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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He seems less the wily fighting fox and more the cornered stag.
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Back to the flowery island of Sicily her mother brought her, and the peach trees and the almonds blossomed snowily as she passed.
A Book of Myths
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To his admirers he was a resolute, wily, irreproachable and indomitable champion of the workers' cause.
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He was incredibly distrustful of the wily-looking fox, and was very interested to hear his story - if ever he got the chance to.
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Both of them knew that Beynor of Moss was a vainglorious young blowhard, treacherous as a weasel and even more wily.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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The wily old fox could well pull it off and have us all enthused about the show again.
The Sun
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The idea of the touring professional as wily entrepreneur was nearly dead.
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At the extreme end of the glittering vista of pale-green, transparent columns, a door suddenly opened, and a flock of doves came speeding forth, their white, spread wings colored softly in the clear rose-radiance, -- they circled round and round the dome three times, then fluttered in a palpitating arch over Lysia's head, and finally sped straight across the hall to the other end, where they streamed snowily through another aperture and disappeared.
Ardath
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The Dissenting pastor moaned over his stray lambling -- if such a little, wily, mischievous monster could be called a lamb at all.
The Virginians
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If someone temporarily forced him into a direct look by speaking to him, then this extremely unharmonious face, jagging angularly in all its features, would become somewhat reserved, wily, shifting, and downright hypocritical.
Enowning
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Can't you just imagine the wily Texan wrestling with an endangered white rhino and somehow relating his past Tour experiences to getting a friendly mauling from the giant albino beast?
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The way he was paraded round the country as part of the cornet-licking, handholding, smily-wily smarmy double act made me heave.
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Florence but watch our for him in Wynn’s Hotel; theer’s his bow and wheer’s his leaker and heer lays his bequiet hearse, deep; Swed Albiony, likeliest villain of the place; Hennery Can-terel — Cockran, eggotisters, limitated; we take our tays and frees our fleas round sadurn’s mounted foot; built the Lund’s kirk and destroyed the church’s land; who guesse his title grabs his deeds; fletch and prities, fash and chaps; artful Juke of Wilysly;
Finnegans Wake
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The wily old fox must team up with other animals in the forest to rescue his captured son and save the day.
The Sun
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Must I shoot a simple minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?
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He had made one mistake, he had not counted on the skill and determination of his wily opponent.
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I'm no technician, but a wily old trader once told me to ignore the news and trust the charts.
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In a whirl of publicity, abetted by her wily lawyer, Roxie becomes Chicago's latest celebrity.
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The government has wised up to the crafty ways of the wily general.
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What was cried up by the wily merchant often turned out to be most unworthy of praise.
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It came and went and, from being old and wily, he began to look simply old.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the wily Ulysses had tied his men under the bellies of the animals.
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A piece of dazzlingly fresh fish, rubbed with a little olive oil and sea salt and roasted until its flesh is snowily opaque often needs little more than a piece of lemon to be at its best, or maybe just some piquant capers and parsley.
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Arguably chronically emotionally wounded by it all Abdias is both wily and ruthlessly cunning, but equally capable of deep love and quiet, gentle emotion and this is never so evident as when he is left to raise his baby daughter.
44 entries from December 2007
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The scene is now set for a series of double-crosses where the wily Carol emerges as the sharpest operator of them all.
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His vulnerability, his emotions are those of the wily and ingenuous country lawyer.
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Wily, wiry and strong, Duffield's strength in a finish has been a welcome sight for punters over four decades.
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The archetypal survivor is the trickster, and his strategy is wily cunning.
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But it wasn't the flashy rookies who made the show - it was the wily veterans.
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Decked out as a thriller — complete with a heroine thirsting for justice, a wily villain scrambling to stay one step ahead, cross-country chases, and close escapes — it is also another T.C. Boyle story of relationships gone awry, of strong women and the slightly awestruck men who orbit them.
New Fiction
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They will repurchase the bonds of the ownership of which they have been tricked out by the wily old fox.
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Ching led us farther and farther away from the riverside, and past enclosures at whose gates stood truculent-looking, showily-dressed men, who carried swords hung from a kind of baldrick, and scowled at us from beneath their flat, conical lacquered hats.
Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser
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Resplendent and magnificent toilet, it is the choice of showily grace, it is certain to suited to go up commonly the career of age has adult person.
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The ball has been thrown into the court of the central government of India by a wily satrap from a rival camp.
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What was cried up by the wily merchant often turned out to be most unworthy of praise.
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They wander off on their own, they blow up a poacher's shack for no apparent reason, and they attempt to confront their wily antagonists head on.
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Though he is neither as showily cerebral as the current prime minister nor as scintillating a retail politician as the previous one, Mr Cameron is adept in both settings.
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Will that wily old bird be proved right in the next few months?
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The wily, galvanising 66-year-old, has an intimate knowledge of football's cul-de-sacs.
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London come to hear or impart the news; and the affairs of the state or of private individuals, the quarrels of empires or of authors, the movements of the court, or the splendid vagaries of fashion, the intrigues of statesmen or of persons of another sex yet more wily, the last news of battles in the great occidental continents, nay, the latest betting for the horse-races, or the advent of a dancer at the theatre — all that men do is discussed in these Pall Mall agorae, where we of London daily assemble.
Roundabout Papers
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So when on ivory thrones they rested, snowily gleaming,
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus
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We should be working these refs with wily cunning.
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One aspect of bowhunting not present in 3 - D archery, added Stirling, is the stealth and scent suppression required to track wily live game.
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The wily battery commander had hammered his guns into the frozen Vistula River.
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But that would be a crass sort of opinion to attribute to a wily man like Pilate.
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The wily old fox of cricket had his guests enthralled by witty conversation, which ran late into the night.
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But scientists are finding that the wily creatures can stop cancer in its tracks.
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Others fought over what fell, scampering across the yard playing wily comedies of keep-away.
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Stefan Margita, a Slovakian tenor in his Met debut, was both wily and pathetic as Filka, going under the name Luka, who sings a monologue about being sent to prison for vagrancy, where one day he impulsively stabbed a bullying officer.
NYT > Home Page
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Having wily old pros can be a big plus on tense nights like these.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sparrow is the former captain of the legendary Black Pearl, a notorious pirate ship, now helmed by the wily Barbossa, which has been doomed to the world of the undead by a cursed treasure.
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An excellent, if very showily theatrical show.
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Let him zealously persuade them that they are in a much worse condition now than when they had no canal: that it cost more than it was worth; that it was an oppression upon the people; that it let in a trade from without, by which they were underbidden in their own market; and that to choke it up immediately with the same dirt which was taken out of its bed, would be restoring to the state the inestimable privileges which it once possessed, and of which by the wily practices of artful and imposing men, it is now deprived.
The Numbers of Carlton, Addressed to the People of North Carolina, on a Central Rail-Road Through the State. The Rights of Freemen is an Open Trade 232 p.
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As here, wily conference devisers make sure that the speakers and their works are going to be interesting so that everyone has a good time even if the topic gets only a token airing.
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With the wind upon her quarter, she rode on an even keel, and the long iron hull, gleaming snowily in the sunshine, drove on, majestic, through a field of white-flecked green and azure.
Vane of the Timberlands
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A wily player, who was one of the best at reading a game, he knew there and then that there was no way back.
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The audience, of course, generally has the same preferred coign of vantage as the lucky servant or the Wily Peasant.
Cinnamon Roll
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But the wily old fox has since masterminded an incredible run of 11 games without defeat.
The Sun
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The genial exterior hid a wily political mind which made his public pronouncements feared by many politicians.
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Both of them knew that Beynor of Moss was a vainglorious young blowhard, treacherous as a weasel and even more wily.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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It has proven to be fully adaptable to its habitat, well-suited to survive in harsh climates with their tough hide and wily brain.
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Given that conditions were clear blue overhead, with the whole country basking snowily under sunlight, it was extraordinarily difficult to see where I was going.
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The wily old Fox Has caused all manner of shocks.
The Sun
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Lachlain believed he and Emma would have had incredible children—brilliant lasses with her beauty, and braw, wily lads with his temper.
Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
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He's like that wily friend who's always getting you into trouble but whom you can't help but forgive.
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Under the conditions, when he met Bates, he would probably be told that Jenkins, underkeeper and Territorial lance corporal, had resolved to end the vicious career of a hoodie crow, and had not scrupled to reach the wily robber with a bullet.
The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley
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The room had already been lit by moveable light pylons, a leftover from when Wily had first set up operations there.
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It was only later, seeing him less showily equipped, that Burnell realized he was no taller than average.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Seeing that I had gone mad, the wily codfishes took advantage of my state, and flourished things before my eyes, at which Emily instantly forbade me to look.
Set in Silver
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Neither will become a wily old pro.
Times, Sunday Times
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He may have mellowed with old age - he's 63-but the fire still burns bright in this wily old fox's belly when invited to defy the odds.
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A career labor advocate, he is also an art aficionado who dresses tastefully if not showily from major fashion labels.
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All is going really well until an evil scientist named Dr. Wily takes control of some of these helpful robots and sets off on the usual megalomaniac styled quest to take over the planet.
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Making wily choices about possible jurisdictions is often criticised as forum shopping.
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As the rising wind began to whirl snowily about their ears and necks, the party turned up their coat-collars and tucked in their fur robes.
The Second Violin
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I had no idea such cunning and wily interrogation techniques were still permitted in the Western world.
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The sassafras is rusty, the beeches have yet to go from green to gold, and those wily, ancient oaks are always the last to give up their autumnal ghosts.
2006 October - Telic Thoughts
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You will know many of the images that now begin to parade themselves showily along the walls.
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So last night ShowBiz Ireland were out in force and waiting outside Vicar Street for the wily old fox to emerge.
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The wily City veteran is rarely caught on the wrong side of a trade.
Times, Sunday Times
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Look out, then, for ambitious adland folk clutching copies of the cerebral weekly – though it could all be a wily ploy to tempt rival agencies into bullshitting in pitches, having briefed clients in advance that that was what they'd do.
Media Monkey's Diary
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Ambitious for power, the wily Sejanus now used his opportunity to pick away at the scab of resentment between Livia and Agrippina, attempting to foment the empress’s and her son’s antagonism toward Germanicus’s widow by trading on what Tacitus described as Agrippina’s “insubordination” and “ill-concealed maternal ambitions.”
Caesars’ Wives
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Even the wily street vendors are offering their goods at genuine bargain prices.
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And that you may give the more credit to the validity of this opinion, consider how the cautelous and wily tempter did commemorate unto her, for an antecedent to his enthymeme, the prohibition which was made to taste it, as being desirous to infer from thence, It is forbidden thee; therefore thou shouldst eat of it, else thou canst not be a woman.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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He's a wily old fox who loves attacking football.
The Sun
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Remember this wily character is going to be good at hiding the problems, great at explaining them away if you point them out, and a genius at demonstrating why it is in fact your fault!
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The scene is now set for a series of double-crosses where the wily Carol emerges as the sharpest operator of them all.