cunnin

They rags 'im low an' cunnin ', each dirty trick they can,

Barrack Room Ballads Rudyard Kipling 1900

They rags 'im low an' cunnin ', each dirty trick they can,

The Seven Seas Rudyard Kipling 1900

They rags 'im low an' cunnin ', each dirty trick they can,

Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 1900

"They're cool an 'cunnin' an 'crafty, me darlin'."

Peg O' My Heart J. Hartley Manners 1899

"Don't look much as if we'd thrown th 'cunnin' devils off our trail, does it?"

The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49 Everett McNeil 1895

Throughout his wakin 'hours, as I su'gests former, Bowlaigs ha'nts about the Red Light, layin' guileful an 'cunnin' for invites to drink; an 'he execootes besides small excursions to the O.K. Restauraw for chuck, with now an' then a brief journey to the Post Office or the New York store.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

I canna speak t 'ye in phrases: I'm jest a plain, unscholarly man: I canna wheedle ye, wi' cunnin 'after t' fashion o 'toon folks.

Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship Anthony Trollope 1848

'untsman, for he had a deal of ret (rat) ketchin' cunnin 'about him, and, as I said before, didn't care one dim for his neck, but a more signal disastrous failure was never recognized.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

Eh, mem! whan I think upo ''t a', it seems to me 'at the human hert closed i' the mids o 'sic a coffer o' cunnin 'workmanship, maun be a terrible precious-like thing. "

Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

By gosh! thar a kupple o 'cunnin' old coons, whosomever they be. "

The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850