1 Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.
2 Moses, who was Mr. Jones's especial pet, was a spy and a tale-bearer, but he was also a clever talker.
3 But the pigs were so clever that they could think of a way round every difficulty.
4 She would have been, he thought, a very clever woman, had she fixed her gaze.
5 I thought it brilliantly clever.
6 The amazing, the profound, the unbelievable thrill there was in passionately talking to some really clever young man by the hour, resuming day after day for months.
7 Clifford was really clever at that slightly humorous analysis of people and motives which leaves everything in bits at the end.
8 Anyhow he was blacksmith to the cavalry in Egypt for a time; always was connected with horses, a clever fellow that way.
9 Connie realized that his so-called genius was just this: a perspicuous talent for personal gossip, clever and apparently detached.
10 He began to experiment, and got a clever young fellow, who had proved brilliant in chemistry, to help him.
11 The house was not impregnable: he was as clever as burglars are.
12 But he'd been a nice lad, a nice lad, had helped her a lot, so clever at making things clear to you.
13 He was quite as clever as Sir Clifford: and always one for the women.
14 I was supposed to be a clever sort of young fellow from Sheffield Grammar School, with a bit of French and German, very much up aloft.
15 He was a very intelligent man: and alone in the army, as such a man is: a passionate man in his way: and a very clever officer.