"Canniness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from the home of one accent to the home of another accent. It was going from manner to manner, from habit to habit, and in the minds of these London spectators there surely floated dim images of the traditional kilts, the burring speech, the grouse, the canniness, the oat-meal, all the elements ...
— Men, Women, and Boats • Stephen Crane
... long as they stopped there, and report upon their movements; while, during the day, we would have the house watched by the head gillie's son, a most intelligent young man, who could be trusted, with true Scotch canniness, to say ...
— An African Millionaire - Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay • Grant Allen |
