All 25 Uses
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Ben Hur
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- Often, while making the circuit, he paused, and, shading his eyes with his hands, examined the desert to the extremest verge of vision; and always, when the survey was ended, his face clouded with disappointment, slight, but enough to advise a shrewd spectator that he was there expecting company, if not by appointment; at the same time, the spectator would have been conscious of a sharpening of the curiosity to learn what the business could be that required transaction in a place so far from civilized abode.†
Chpt 1.2shrewd = smart
- The noble Quintus is shrewd.†
Chpt 3.3 *
- To the shrewd, demanding, masterful glance bent upon it, the face gave back nothing to mar its youthful comeliness—nothing of accusation or sullenness or menace, only the signs which a great sorrow long borne imprints, as time mellows the surface of pictures.†
Chpt 3.3
- Shrewd readers will not want a better definition of his character.†
Chpt 3.3
- Besides, it was a shrewd count on the tribune's side, if, peradventure, one should be defeated, the other would find the enemy shattered by his victory, and in condition to be easily overwhelmed.†
Chpt 3.4
- Nor am I a money-borrower," said Ben-Hur, smiling at the other's shrewdness.†
Chpt 4.2shrewdness = intelligence
- Well, thou art a good child, Esther, of genuine Jewish shrewdness, and of years and strength to hear a sorrowful tale.†
Chpt 4.4
- Some of the shrewder of the old man's friends planted themselves between him and the horses.†
Chpt 4.7shrewder = smarter
- The jockeys of the ancients, quite as shrewd and ambitious as their successors of the present, called their humblest turnout a two, and their best in grade a four; in the latter, they contested the Olympics and the other festal shows founded in imitation of them.†
Chpt 4.7shrewd = smart
- Another conclusion which might be of importance was beginning to formulate itself in the shrewd mind of the emissary; between Messala and the son of the duumvir there was a connection of some kind.†
Chpt 4.9
- "It would be but shrewd judgment," Malluch replied, smiling.†
Chpt 4.10
- They said, with shrewdness at least, that the real object of the removal of the legates was not a more healthful locality, but the assurance afforded them by the huge barracks, named, according to the prevalent style, citadel, situated just over the way on the eastern ridge of the mount.†
Chpt 4.12shrewdness = intelligence
- —this Arrius is handsome and brave and shrewd.†
Chpt 4.12shrewd = smart
- Of this declaration, apparently so simple, a shrewd mind inspired by faith will make much—and in welcome.†
Chpt 4.15
- Nay, I do not impeach their shrewdness, Malluch.†
Chpt 5.2shrewdness = intelligence
- A man is never safer than when he is under the laugh; and the shrewd old Arab knew it.†
Chpt 5.10shrewd = smart
- Simonides, shrewder than Esther, said to Ilderim, the moment the rivals turned into the course, "I am no judge, good sheik, if Ben-Hur be not about to execute some design.†
Chpt 5.14shrewder = smarter
- The bystanders approved the shrewdness of their chief; yet Gesius did not seem discomfited.†
Chpt 6.1shrewdness = intelligence
- Malluch was shrewd and trusty; the very man to charge with the conduct of the investigation.†
Chpt 6.3shrewd = smart
- A little pressing of the clew, together with some shrewd comparison of dates, led to the sad assurance that the sufferers were the Hurs, and left the old questions darker than ever.†
Chpt 6.6
- She and Iras were acquainted; this one was shrewd and worldly; the other was simple and affectionate, and therefore easily won.†
Chpt 7.2
- And there never was such queen as you would be, so shrewd, so beautiful, so royal—never!†
Chpt 7.4
- "You are shrewd men," Ben-Hur resumed, after a pause.†
Chpt 8.2
- and when he looks at you repeating this my message, daughter of Balthasar, his Roman shrewdness will tell him all I mean.†
Chpt 8.6shrewdness = intelligence
- So if it could be found who he was the business in hand might be shrewdly guessed.†
Chpt 8.8shrewdly = in a smart manner
Definitions:
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(1)
(shrewd) smart -- especially in negotiating with people (may infer underhanded dealings)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)