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Meanings of shrewd man in anglès

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Usage of shrewd man in anglès
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The shrewd man of the world guessed the secret of her failure.
Barriers Burned Away
2
After the poet-psalmist came the prosaic and keen-sighted shrewd man of affairs.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Rut...
3
He was a shrewd man, and would not incur any needless risk.
Desk and Debit; or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk
4
Had the shrewd man foreseen this noble abandonment of the poor girl?
The Clique of Gold
5
Maecenas was a shrewd man when it came to temporal things.
Song of the Nile
6
Trust a shrewd man like that to take care of himself.
The Financier: A Novel
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They had taken that as a wise saying of a very shrewd man.
The Root of Evil
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I had observed before that he was a shrewd man, and not unphilosophic.
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I had noticed before, Decimus Camillus Verus was a shrewd man.
The Silver Pigs
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He was an agreeable, shrewd man, and professed to be a good Unionist.
Three Years in the Sixth Corps / A Concise Narrative of Events i...
11
A shrewd man among kanakas, unscrupulous by his own account, he had prospered.
White Shadows in the South Seas
12
Senator Henderson is a shrewd man, but he wasn't shrewd enough this time.
Half a Rogue
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He is a shrewd man -his uncle would be proud of him.'
Second to None
14
But there was a shrewd man in the court who privately saved her life.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13
15
The captain was a shrewd man, and understood his employer.
Revenge!
16
No, indeed, and your father was a shrewd man up to the last moment.
Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates
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