Now, a wipe is the easiest booty in the world, and the Artful Dodger might grow rich without the exercise of the smallest skill. But wipes dwindled, with dwindling sensibility; and once more the pickpocket was forced upon cleverness or extinction.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
He bargained with two ruffians strong, Which were of furious mood, That they should take these children young, And slay them in a wood. He told his wife an artful tale, He would the children send To be brought up in fair Lond-on, With one that was his friend.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
"Duplicate boxes!" echoed the triumphant clerk. "Artful beggars, these Americans, sir! You've got to crawss the 'Erring Pond to learn a trick worth one o' that?"英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
Severne then made the revelation which he had been preparing for a day or two past; and, to avoid eternal comments by the author, I must once more call in the artful aid of the printers. The true part of Mr. Severne's revelation is in italics; the false in ordinary type.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Fanny's cunning eyes twinkled, and Zoe blushed crimson to see her noble brother manipulated by this artful minx and then flattered for his perspicacity.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"But by this time the war was hot and general, and hard blows dealt on both sides. It was artfully suppressed by our enemies in the profession and in the Press that we had begged hard for the separate class which had been promised us in anatomy, and permission to attend, by ourselves, a limited number of wards in the infirmary; and on this falsehood by suppression worse calumnies were built.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Whether it was an insincere promise to a campaign donor, or the artful evasion of a reporter's question, or an outright lie to his constituents, Victor did what he had to to get what he wanted.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
I was -- I was cold, and I was scared, especially after this kid told this terrifying ghost story, so I snuck away to a pay phone, I called you, crying, and in a performance even more predictable than Todd Jansen's Artful Dodger, you refused to pick me up.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
Unlike the tremendous help you've been to me running the artful lodger.美剧 · 《Modern Family》