| 1. | "They are a very astute and unscrupulous pair. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 2. | But Hermes, astute as he was dishonest, determined to test the shepherd's integrity. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 3. | The bolder and more astute among them sought to prove that peace had been effected by following their counsels. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 4. | So I did not abandon the search until I had become fully satisfied that the thief is a more astute man than myself. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 5. | This man, so subtle and astute in official life, did not realize all the senselessness of such an attitude to his wife. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | It struck me that so astute a man as Straker would not undertake this delicate tendon-nicking without a little practice. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 7. | Careful, have I found all buyers, and all of them have astute eyes. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 8. | Perhaps it was an astute attention to the prejudices of his employers, who love no man that does not earn his living by the sweat of his brow. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 9. | Alfred Inglethorp that astute gentleman would have--in your so expressive idiom--'smelt a rat' And then, bon jour to our chances of catching him. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |