| Modern hospital managers will envy the canniness of their counterparts from the 19th century. |
| People looked askance upon them as Scots, while innkeepers hated them for their poverty and their canniness. |
| With the canniness of her new-found love, Avice approached the subject in a roundabout way. |
| He gave a remarkable proof of his canniness in the successful outcome of his bargaining with the trustees of the British Museum. |
| Carson, with the canniness so characteristic of the American, was not to be so easily convinced. |
| The verses rang with New England canniness, and the familiar dialect acquired a dignity never before acknowledged. |
