"Canniness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... first experience of being quite alone in the forest, and she had been doing but little "furnishing" after the first night. Now she was sure he had made a fine haul, and hurried out to meet him and hear the news. Malcolm, with the canniness of his kind, at once told her he ...
— Labrador Days - Tales of the Sea Toilers • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
... assertion of himself would have placed him in a position to defeat Mr. Kruger. But the habit of indolence, so often found associated with a big physical frame, and a certain element of Scotch 'canniness,' which led him to refuse to accept risks, prevented his offering serious opposition to ...
— Story of the War in South Africa - 1899-1900 • Alfred T. Mahan
... would take him back to Canada, and once there, he could not only get many such shoes, but see the maid who made this one for him, or, rather, made it for herself. As for me, the price was cheap. You could not replace it in all the Exchange for any money. Moreover, to show my canniness, I've won back its cost a score ...
— The Mississippi Bubble • Emerson Hough |
