..."For some time this intercourse, enveloped in the sagacity ofmy circumspection, was concealed from every eye...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
... “And now, it remains for us to see if your sagacity is at fault...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
...I shall trust in future to my own sagacity...
Grant Allen 「An African Millionaire」
... These facts show that for his energy, perseverance, eloquence, invective, sagacity, and wide sympathy, he is indebted to his Negro blood...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...Next to the Esquimos, the dogs are the most interesting subjects in theArctic regions, and I could tell lots of tales to prove theirintelligence and sagacity...
Matthew A. Henson 「A Negro Explorer at the North Pole」
...When free in its native woods the elephant evinces rathersimplicity than sagacity, and its intelligence seldom exhibitsitself in cunning...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Jerdon did not turnhim adrift again; such wonderful sagacity and attachment one couldonly expect in a dog...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...I begin to believe now in rats dipping their tails into oil-bottles,and other wonderful stories of murine sagacity that one reads of...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
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I think one as often sees instances of decided stupidity on the partof elephants as of sagacity, but I think the amount of intelligencevaries in individuals...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...Thesecond elephant, I think, showed the greatest amount of originalthought; but there is no doubt the sagacity of the animal has beengreatly overrated...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...They are taught energy, sagacity,craft in maturing their plans, courageand promptness in their execution...
Various 「Hunting in Many Lands」
...Always mistrustful and intenselysuspicious, they imagine everything unusualthey see is a trap laid to betray or capturethem, and with extreme sagacity avoid everythingstrange and new...
Various 「Hunting in Many Lands」
...That there may be no vagueness as to the terms used hereafter, we wouldadd one word respecting the nomenclature of this class, whose aliases mightbaffle the sagacity of a police detective...
Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz 「Seaside Studies in Natural History」
...The head keeper of Richmond Park is possessed of a famous olddeer-hound bitch, remarkable for her sagacity, and for having takenfive bucks in one day...
Edward Jesse 「Anecdotes of Dogs」
...I may add the following instance of sagacity from the same quarter...
Edward Jesse 「Anecdotes of Dogs」
...Laing, who was steward to General Sharp, of Houston, near Uphall,had a terrier dog which gave many proofs of his sagacity...
Edward Jesse 「Anecdotes of Dogs」
...The dog seeing the bustle, supposed his masterwas going to beat the boy, and therefore tried to pull him away by theskirts of his coat, thus showing his affection and sagacity at thesame time...
Edward Jesse 「Anecdotes of Dogs」
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