Citations:slyness

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English citations of slyness

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  • 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
    There were ruddy, brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish Onions, shining in the fatness of their growth like Spanish Friars, and winking from their shelves in wanton slyness at the girls as they went by, and glanced demurely at the hung-up mistletoe.
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