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Meanings of shrewd eye in English

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Usage of shrewd eye in English
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Before replying, however, he measured the officer with his calm, shrewd eye.
Okewood of the Secret Service
2
With a shrewd eye he watched the face of Steve Hunter.
Poor White: A Novel
3
Keogh glanced about the studio with the shrewd eye of a connoisseur in business.
Cabbages and Kings
4
Then, lounging back in the chair, he cocked a shrewd eye at his nephew.
Man-Size
5
He has a shrewd eye for the telling detail, matched by a decisive self-awareness.
The Irish Times
6
Farmer Jordan cast a shrewd eye over the premises.
In Exile, and Other Stories
7
Farmer Gordon cast a shrewd eye over the premises.
Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)
8
The castle kitchen keeps sugar locked in the pantry under Brona the cook's shrewd eye.
House of Bathory
9
The manse builders of the ancient days were men of a shrewd eye and much wisdom.
Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers
10
The Lieutenant cocked a shrewd eye on Prescott.
Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond
11
Mr. Bobbie observed her with a shrewd eye.
The Testing of Diana Mallory
12
She would have fixed him with a shrewd eye and have remarked later: 'I know his kind.
Agahta christie: an autobiography
13
A shrewd eye to the main chance
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases / A Practical Handbook Of Pertin...
14
The monstrous nugget was too heavy to conceal from his shrewd eye, so they showed it him.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
15
He grinned amiably, then regarded me with a shrewd eye and demanded if I had been drinking.
Ruggles of Red Gap
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He turned a shrewd eye upon Anthony.
The Ne'er-Do-Well
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