Such racing, we had the sagacity to see, was not likely to pay.

Bennett Burleigh, that crafty old campaigner, had the sagacity to go by Tube.

The King, however, had the sagacity to secure a preëmption-right as early as 1620.

At twenty-four he had the sagacity, the prudence, the reserve of a man of fifty.

She had the sagacity which comes from great tenderness and loyalty, combined with a passionate nature.

Wilfrid had the sagacity to perceive, and the keen apprehension of ridicule to shrink from, the picture.

Congress has not had the sagacity to give the necessary guarantees, the proper assurances to the slaveholding States.

Need I say that citizen was the younger Adams, and that Washington had the sagacity to discover him?

Besides the ability of her generals and the discipline of her legions, she had the sagacity of her Senate.

Chalmers had the sagacity to discover also a sort of portrait-like resemblance in the Duke to King James the First.

Also, old Brashear had the sagacity and the nagging habit that are necessary to keeping people and things up to the mark.

The same Louis had the sagacity to revoke the edict of Nantz; to entrust his armies to a Tallard, a Villeroy, and a Marsin.

He could not come among us without betraying his sympathy for us, and, stupid as we were, we had the sagacity to see it.

"It may be that no other loves her as well, and she has had the sagacity to discover it."