"Sara is only one of the woman's names," she said. "Do you like her other name?"
The rapidly-muttering tones broke out again instantly--but not in answer to Emily. The sound of a voice had encouraged Miss Letitia to pursue her own confused train of thought, and had stimulated the fast-failing capacity of speech to exert itself once more. He's too cunning for you, and too cunning for me. He doesn't leave letters about; he destroys them all. Did I say he was too cunning for us? It's false. We are too cunning for him.英文原著 · 《I SAY NO》
"To the king!" said she, with a proud smile. "He has heard the bishop; now he shall hear me also. The king's disposition is fickle and easily changed. We will now see which cunning is the stronger-- the cunning of the priest or the cunning of the woman. Elizabeth, pray for me. I go to the king; and you will either see me free and happy, or never again."
She imprinted a passionate kiss on Elizabeth's lips, and hurriedly left the chamber.英文原著 · 《Henry VIII and His Court》
"I don't know you and you give me a pain in my head. Don't you know what it is to feel a buzz, buzz, buzzing inside? I can't remember things. It's no use trying."
"Monty, why do you look so often that way?" Trent said quietly. "Is some one coming out from the town to see you?"
Monty threw a quick glance at him and Trent sighed. For the glance was full of cunning, the low cunning of the lunatic criminal. "No one, no one," he said hastily. "Who should come to see me?英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
Raffles stood over me with a smile made of mischief and cunning; but it was the purest mischief imaginable, the most innocent and comic cunning.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
"Now," said Polly, curling up on the bed beside her, "if you'll stop crying, Phronsie Pepper, I'll tell you about the cunningest, yes, the very cunningest little chickens you ever saw. One was white, and he looked just like this," said Polly, tumbling over on the bed in a heap; "he couldn't stand up straight, he was so fat."英文原著 · 《Five Little Peppers And How They Grew》
And also, dr. Cunningham'sschedule opened up, so if you'd like, we can move upyour surgery to wednesday.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》