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3 total sentences available.
Man is made in the image and likeness of God, therefore he is a sacred creature; a creature, not merely an animal, and the highest of all animals, only cunninger than all animals, more highly organised, more delicately formed than all animals; but something beyond an animal.
Source: wiktionary
Call ye that a Society, [...] Where each, isolated, regardless of his neighbour, turned against his neighbour, clutches what he can get, and cries "Mine!" and calls it Peace, because, in the cut-purse and cut-throat Scramble, no steel knives, but only a far cunninger sort, can be employed?
Source: wiktionary
He had always trusted Lucian for the cunninger insight and did it now though Lucian lay in the bishop's arms limp and senseless.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include artful, clever trickster, crafty, crafty individual, cunning.
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