You're shrewd

Very resourceful.

He's a fast worker.

Or a very shrewd article.

But Qaddafi is shrewd.

As I thought, you're a shrewd man.

Phineas is pretty shrewd, said Simeon.

Honey, this time you've run into a shrewd one.

He is a canny businessman that much is clear.

A shrewd woman would know when to trust a man.

You have a shrewd eye, Your Pulchritude, if I may permit myself the...

He's going round prowling round. He's as artful as the devil.

Fearing that a great disaster is going to befall them .

Knowing that they will be subjected to a torment that breaks the backs .

thou mightest think the Calamity has been wreaked on them .

Imagining that there will befall them a waiste breaking calomity .

Thinking that some calamity was about to fall on them

Realizing that a back breaker has befallen them .

believing that a crushing calamity is about to strike them .

Thou wilt know that some great disaster is about to fall on them .

knowing that they will be dealt out a punishment breaking the spine .

so they might think the Calamity had been inflicted upon them .

Expecting that there will be done to them something backbreaking .

certain of facing a great calamity .

Knowing that there will be made to befall them some great calamity .

dreading some great affliction .

In the thought that some back breaking calamity was about to be inflicted on them

Jeeves is a tallish man, with one of those dark, shrewd faces.

Well, I think the first thing is that it reminds us just how resourceful people were, our forebears were, years and years ago.

As long as activists, workers, journalists, and members of opposition parties are starved, gagged, and oppressed, they will keep on protesting and demonstrating until they bid you good riddance!

The shirt sleeve planted a shrewd blow in Hall's face that stopped his open armed advance, and sent him backward into old Toothsome the sexton, and in another moment the garment was lifted up and became convulsed and vacantly flapping about the arms, even as a shirt that is being thrust over a man's head.

Of course, like any shrewd politician, Thatcher knew which battles were unwinnable, or had to be postponed but she always preferred winning a fight to reaching a compromise.

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA As show trials go, the drama featuring Bo Xilai, the once swaggering, media savvy former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chief of Chongqing, veered anomalously into improvisation.