Word: cunningness
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"This irate old God who thunders imprecations from the mountain or mutters and grouches in the tabernacle, and whom Moses finds so hard to tame; who, in his paroxysms of rage, has massacred hundreds of thousands of his own chosen people, and would often have slaughtered the whole lot if...
Bonfils had cunning, romantic descent, lust for power; he is strikingly handsome, though haggard after an illness, even today; his temper and resourcefulness in quarrel were speedily renowned. Yet it was never Bonfils, except as an exotic danger, who utterly captured the imagination of lonely sheep herders, grim miners, lusty...
Ettarre, whose instrument was her heartstrings and whose home was the waste behind the moon. By dint of a cunning decimal point, Madoc abbreviated her exile in that place, confounding the Norns, as he thought, and establishing his happiness. Then it is shown how, having attained the unattainable, his life...
A small red bull dashes around a bend on a frozen river pulling the lead trace of a sledge, a husky dog snapping at his hocks, a" nervous German prospector clinging to the baggage. ... A polar she-bear defends her cubs. . . . An Indian child and crone slay a swimming moose...
Wu maintains his enormous sphere of influence over Central China as the somewhat distrusted exponent of the old and vanished Chinese aristocracy. A cunning general, he is perhaps the most suavely mannered and custom abiding militarist in a country where law and order have long since conspicuously vanished.