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  • He is looking down at sly-looking, hungry-looking, bushy-tailed Mr. Reynard Fox.

    Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011

  • He is looking down at sly-looking, hungry-looking, bushy-tailed Mr. Reynard Fox.

    Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011

  • He is looking down at sly-looking, hungry-looking, bushy-tailed Mr. Reynard Fox.

    Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011

  • He is looking down at sly-looking, hungry-looking, bushy-tailed Mr. Reynard Fox.

    Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011

  • A lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for us upon the platform.

    Sole Music 2010

  • A lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for us upon the platform.

    Sex Dungeon for Sale! Patrick Wensink 2010

  • * * * * * * I love that dress, but those are some sly-looking women.

    Everything's Cooler with a Cape - A Dress A Day 2009

  • ‘No,’ said the traveller with the knapsack, turning round and addressing himself cheerfully to a fat, sly-looking, bald-headed man, with a dirty white apron on, who had followed him down the passage.

    The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

  • The moment his back was turned, Arthur, comfortably conscious of his own well-filled pockets, addressed himself in a great hurry, for fear any other benighted traveller should slip in and forestall him, to the sly-looking landlord with the dirty apron and the bald head.

    The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

  • Meantime, the stands and the plastic chairs are beginning to fill with people: too-thin, sly-looking children; women prematurely aged; men in jeans and leather jackets, with only their tied-back hair — and, alas, their broken faces, devastated by alcohol and poverty — distinguishing them from average American farmers.

    In the Footsteps of Tocqueville Bernard-Henri L 2005

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