'Yes,' said the mother, 'if only someone would come who would have her.' At length a man came from a distance and wooed her, who was called Hans; but he stipulated that
Clever Elsie should be really smart.
But you also shall have a fox's head if you can prove you're as
clever as Button-Bright."
If them two
clever ones have made up their minds to it, what's left for me to do?
When they groaned in their misery and toil, they were persuaded to keep on in their misery and toil by pretty tales of a land beyond the skies where they would live famously and fat while the
clever ones roasted in everlasting fire.
He chaffs her tremendously about her radicalism, and he is so immensely
clever that she can't answer him, though she is rather
clever too.
"If you are
clever enough to do this," he said, "I promise to make you and your descendants rich for ever."
It must be very
clever, or he would not have brought it.
My Lady was too dignified to skip, but she laughed like the neighing of a horse, and waved her handkerchief above her head: it was clear to her very limited understanding that something very
clever had been done, but what it was she had yet to learn.
Then there were the bromide powders which she had made up, and her
clever male impersonations, as Dorcas recounted them to us.
Maggie kept her face buried without the aid of principle, for in that dream-suggestive attitude she had soon forgotten where she was, and her thoughts were busy with the poor deformed boy, who was so
clever, when Tom called out, "Now then, Magsie!"
A Fox was boasting to a Cat of its
clever devices for escaping its enemies.
He was gentle and very
clever in his management of horses, and could doctor them almost as well as a farrier, for he had lived two years with a veterinary surgeon.