All 3 Uses of
sagacious
in
Lord Jim
- A succession of adventures, so much glory, such a victorious progress! and the deep sense of his sagacity crowning every day of his inner life.†
Chpt 8 *
- He did, however, come in a crazy dug-out, sitting (very still and with his knees together, for fear of overturning the thing)—sitting on a tin box—which I had lent him—nursing on his lap a revolver of the Navy pattern—presented by me on parting—which, through an interposition of Providence, or through some wrong-headed notion, that was just like him, or else from sheer instinctive sagacity, he had decided to carry unloaded.†
Chpt 22
- With his imposing bulk and haughty little eyes darting sagacious, inquisitive glances, he reminded one irresistibly of a cunning old elephant; the slow rise and fall of his vast breast went on powerful and regular, like the heave of a calm sea.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(sagacious) wise -- especially through long experience and thoughtfulness