Meanings of yankee shrewdness in English

Emerson looked like a Yankee , and possessed the cool Yankee shrewdness.

His Yankee shrewdness had pronounced the man a pretentious fraud.

Perhaps his Yankee shrewdness saw larger profits in hay and cattle than in washing gravel.

He was a successful farmer (born in Connecticut), of a Yankee shrewdness and industry.

Sixth, Yankee shrewdness, great commonsense, all flavored with a dash of mysticism and indifference to physical scientific accuracy.

Perhaps something of the ancient cruelty of her race possessed her; perhaps it was only the contagion of Yankee shrewdness.

There is in him that mingling of idealism with an abiding sanity, and even a Yankee shrewdness, which characterizes the race.

Back of her African gentleness was an almost Yankee shrewdness, and the firm will which now and then degenerated into obstinacy.

He is known to come from York State and has a Yankee shrewdness that some people say can at times be called something else.

Whether he troubled Hawthorne in that way, is rather doubtful, for even as a hobby-rider, Alcott was a man of Yankee shrewdness and considerable tact.

"How is that for Yankee shrewdness?"

"See here, Miss," began Mr. Jones, threateningly, and then, overcome by his Yankee shrewdness, stopped as suddenly as he started.