1 Abel was a shrewd, grave giant, illiterate, kind of heart, older than the other boys and with as good or better manners in the presence of ladies.
2 Mammy emerged from the hall, a huge old woman with the small, shrewd eyes of an elephant.
3 She was proud of Gerald and what he had accomplished unaided except by his shrewd Irish brain.
4 She had a shrewd suspicion that the reason he had so much money left over was that he had not bought the fowls or most of the food.
5 She was Gerald's own daughter and the shrewd trading instinct she had inherited was now sharpened by her needs.
6 He listened to her talk of the store and the mills and the saloon, the convicts and the cost of feeding them, and gave shrewd hard-headed advice.
7 And she could understand his shrewd caginess, so like her own, his obstinate pride that kept him from admitting his love for fear of a rebuff.
8 But it was in the quality of his admiration that she read his shrewd estimate of her case.
9 Harry's father died, Harry became senior partner in the Bon Ton Store, and Juanita was more acidulous and shrewd and cackling than ever.
10 He glowered at her with shrewd red eyes.
11 Her face was alert and lively, with a sharp chin and shrewd little eyes.
12 His hazel eyes were little and shrewd, like his mother's, but more sly and suspicious; they fairly snapped at the food.
13 But when the Shimerdas found that Jake sold his pig in town that day, Ambrosch worked it out in his shrewd head that Jake had to sell his pig to pay his fine.
14 "Phineas is pretty shrewd," said Simeon.
15 Its owner was a Mr. Frederick, a tough, shrewd man, perpetually involved in lawsuits and with a name for driving hard bargains.