crafty fellow

Example Sentences

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Albert was said to be a crafty fellow who hustled match races in small towns along the way.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2013

The peasants, I think, do not show displeasure when they refer to him as un furbo, 'a crafty fellow.'

From Time Magazine Archive

So Grafton tells us, to the eternal obloquy of this arch-jacobin, who “was a crafty fellow, and of an excellent wit, but wanting grace.”

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

And the man she was meeting, this crafty fellow who hung back in the shadow of the solid gate, who and what was he?

From The Riddle of the Night by Hanshew, Thomas W.

But the crafty fellow evidently suspected what you English call ‘a plant’—a prearranged plan—and he thought that by adopting the course he did he would have us at advantage.”

From The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure by Browne, Gordon