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I'm no technician, but a wily old trader once told me to ignore the news and trust the charts.
As is the case with most buddy road movies featuring a female and a male, Tommy begins to fall for Lou Ann's wily charms.
Just as the wily CIA chief constantly springs surprises on his willing student, so the film keeps pulling the rug from under the viewer.
The ball has been thrown into the court of the central government of India by a wily satrap from a rival camp.
The champion is a wily old bird however and Arthur was unable to press home his advantage.
Fernandes' informal wear had that wily old politician and general Fidel Ramos envious.
A wily player, who was one of the best at reading a game, he knew there and then that there was no way back.
Sergeant Reed is bibulously on the job again, drinking his wily way through another murder investigation.
It is as close as the wily McGahern will get to admitting ulterior motives for writing such a personal book.
Such celluloid misrepresentation has cast the people as wily torturers of blue-eyed boys, and their homeland as a tropical hellhole.
It has proven to be fully adaptable to its habitat, well-suited to survive in harsh climates with their tough hide and wily brain.
They were instead consummate opportunists, wily politicians who made up policy on the hoof.
There he meets up with the wily Artful Dodger who takes him to thief and fence Fagin, who is in charge of a gang of young pickpockets.
She in particular got it into her head that you have fallen prey to some wily Parisienne.
Must I shoot a simple minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?
We should be in France, of course, but our teacher is wily, and has finagled for us a few days in England first.
The wily, galvanising 66-year-old, has an intimate knowledge of football's cul-de-sacs.
To his admirers he was a resolute, wily, irreproachable and indomitable champion of the workers' cause.
There is gossip, friendship, coquetry and wily bargain amid the whiff of condiments and pickles.
I once read an article about a guy who corralled a herd of particularly wily mustangs by just quietly pushing them from 3 miles back.
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This wily old Alsatian will tell you of all the sacrifices he made for the dear lad.
I roused my energies, and the next time the wily beadle summoned me, I went.
The Cytherean gave ready assent to her request, and laughed at the wily invention.
He is greedy as the locust, wily as the serpent, and ferocious as the panther.
The wiliest fox in the history of the world was never so wily as the Iron Count.
William was strong and wily, and it was this combination of strength and wiliness which enabled him to bear down all opposition.
But Manuel was too wily to yield to a temptation merely because it was pleasurable.
It was a time for confidences, and the wily Mrs. Dunn realized that fact.
The stratagem of the wily savage was thus perfectly successful.
In marrying Ben Aboo, the wily Katrina imposed two conditions.
So the wily gunman takes Rose under his wing, protecting her from rival hit man Dixon and Ferguson, who wants her 6ft under as soon as possible.
This time Tarzan saw the pock-marked old owner of the ape, whom he did not recognize as the wily Paulvitch of former days.
And the wily, cunning chinee immediately came to his assistance.
There is no fathoming 27 the devices of Scanderbeg's wily brain.
It was a wily trap he had set me, worthy only of a trickster.
Vindictive and revengeful, the wily enemy was fighting to the end.
These despised themselves, as being the dupes of a wily fraud, a guileful snake in the grass.
Myth of the North, presented by former Guardian hack Martin 'Sweetie' Wainwright aims to show how northerners are endlessly traduced by wily southerners.
Todd Delaney was an ardent and nicely conflicted Aeneas to Hall's Dido, Teri Dunn a vivid Belinda and Marion Newman a wily scheming rather than truly malevolent Sorceress.
The protagonist of this Aesopian form here is the wily spider, Ananse.
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