Powhatan is a very large figure in early Virginia history, and deserves his prominence. He was an able and crafty savage, and made a good fight against the encroachments of the whites, but he was no match for the crafty Smith, nor the double-dealing of the Christians. There is something pathetic about the close of his life, his sorrow for the death of his daughter in a strange land, when he saw his territories overrun by the invaders, from whom he only asked peace, and the poor privilege of moving further away from them into the wilderness if they denied him peace.英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-3》
She was angry at her own cowardice, but she feared the suspicions of Bigot. There was ever something in his dark nature which she could not fathom, and deep and crafty as she knew herself to be, she feared that he was more deep and more crafty than herself.英文原著 · 《The Golden Dog》
"Unlike in method, with concealed design Did crafty Horace his low numbers join; And, with a sly insinuating grace Laughed at his friend, and looked him in the face: Would raise a blush where secret vice he found; And tickle, while he gently probed the wound; With seeming innocence the crowd beguiled, But made the desperate passes while he smiled."英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
"To prove the falsity of these rumours, doctor, I may mention, as a secret, that I am moving to Kislovodsk to-morrow" . "And Princess Mary, too?"
"No, she remains here another week" . "So you are not going to get married?" . "Doctor, doctor! Look at me! Am I in the least like a bridegroom, or any such thing?"
"I am not saying so. But you know there are occasions . ." he added, with a crafty smile -- "in which an honourable man is obliged to marry, and there are mothers who, to say the least, do not prevent such occasions.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
They so flouted and jeered at him that swords were drawn, and blood as well. But though he was a beauty and a crafty rake-hell fellow, you were too sharp for him. Had you not had so shrewd a wit and strong a will, you would not have been the greatest duchess in England, Clo, as well as the finest woman."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
Clayton looked up, and to his horror saw the muzzle of a rifle pointed straight at his head. At the other end of it, and standing in the door, was a short, stocky figure, a head of bushy hair, and a pair of small, crafty eyes. The fierceness and suddenness of the voice, in the great silence about him, and its terrible earnestness, left him almost paralyzed.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Europa》
The man at the garden center said these are crafty creatures, and there's only one way to stop 'em.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》