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Meanings of had the sagacity in English

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Usage of had the sagacity in English
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Such racing, we had the sagacity to see, was not likely to pay.
My Bondage and My Freedom
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Bennett Burleigh, that crafty old campaigner, had the sagacity to go by Tube.
The Swoop! or, How Clarence Saved England: A Tale of the Great I...
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The King, however, had the sagacity to secure a preëmption-right as early as 1620.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 / A Magazi...
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At twenty-four he had the sagacity, the prudence, the reserve of a man of fifty.
Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, / With the lives of the ...
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She had the sagacity which comes from great tenderness and loyalty, combined with a passionate nature.
Saxe Holm's Stories / First Series
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Wilfrid had the sagacity to perceive, and the keen apprehension of ridicule to shrink from, the picture.
Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete
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Congress has not had the sagacity to give the necessary guarantees, the proper assurances to the slaveholding States.
A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions o...
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Need I say that citizen was the younger Adams, and that Washington had the sagacity to discover him?
Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams / Sixth President ...
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Besides the ability of her generals and the discipline of her legions, she had the sagacity of her Senate.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1
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Chalmers had the sagacity to discover also a sort of portrait-like resemblance in the Duke to King James the First.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. / With An ...
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Also, old Brashear had the sagacity and the nagging habit that are necessary to keeping people and things up to the mark.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
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The same Louis had the sagacity to revoke the edict of Nantz; to entrust his armies to a Tallard, a Villeroy, and a Marsin.
Travels through France and Italy
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He could not come among us without betraying his sympathy for us, and, stupid as we were, we had the sagacity to see it.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
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"It may be that no other loves her as well, and she has had the sagacity to discover it."
Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef
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