Cleverness

Examples

• But as to listening to what one lawyer says without asking another--I wonder at a man o' your cleverness, Mr. Dill. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Celia had become less afraid of saying things to Dorothea since this engagement: cleverness seemed to her more pitiable than ever. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There was too much cleverness in her apology: she was laughing both at her uncle and himself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Happily she never attempted to joke, and this perhaps was the most decisive mark of her cleverness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Solomon says there's great talk of his cleverness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She had never boasted either beauty or cleverness. Jane Austen. Emma.
• His lordship's admiration for Becky rose immeasurably at this proof of her cleverness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He would not believe in my total lack of popular cleverness; he thought I _could_ be prompt if I _would_. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• You don't believe in yourself and your own womanhood, so what good is your conceited, shallow cleverness--! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Or he may have originated it altogether, if he had the cleverness. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Sir James had no idea that he should ever like to put down the predominance of this handsome girl, in whose cleverness he delighted. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• If Miss Rebecca can get the better of him, and at her first entrance into life, she is a young person of no ordinary cleverness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• What she liked to do was to her the right thing, and all her cleverness was directed to getting the means of doing it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Miss Brooke was certainly very naive with all her alleged cleverness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But there was small cleverness in HIS keeping out of the way. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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