Sentence Examples

1. The only concession he could see to the present were bars over all the windows, but even these were artful curlicues of wrought iron that managed to be as decorative as they were functional.
2. Dropping the light robe of skin from his shoulder, he stretched forth his arm, and commenced a burst of his dangerous and artful eloquence.
3. The sudden return of this artful and dreaded chief caused a delay in the departure of the Huron.
4. Be deaf to yonder artful and remorseless monster, who poisons thy ears with falsehoods to feed his thirst for blood.
5. The bookshop across from my office had the latest fiction arranged in artful stacks in the front of the store.
6. It was then that Cora saw the form of Magua gliding among his countrymen, and speaking with his fatal and artful eloquence.
7. He wound it around her wrists with methodical precision, the length gradually growing shorter, until all she saw was a row of webbed cords encircling her wrists with an artful knot at the top.
8. He mentioned it in a very artful manner at council, where I was told that some of the wisest appeared, at least, by their silence, to be of my opinion but others, who were my secret enemies, could not forbear some expressions which by a side wind reflected on me and from this time began an intrigue between his majesty, and a junto of ministers maliciously bent against me, which broke out in less than two months, and had like to have ended in my utter destruction.
9. In short, he so blended the warlike with the artful, the obvious with the obscure, as to flatter the propensities of both parties, and to leave to each subject of hope, while neither could say it clearly comprehended his intentions.