Citations:cunning linguist


 * 1894, Mary Wharton, translating Benito Pérez Galdós, Lady Perfecta, p. 206:
 * An enormous oak shelf holds a rich and choice library; ... Martial, the cunning linguist and wit; ...
 * 1951, University of Wester Medical Journal, Volumes 21-23, p. 94:
 * I had some difficulty translating, but after six weeks in the Brass Rail with Salvador Dali, I could speak the language like nothing on earth — and still do. But, then, I always was a cunning linguist.
 * 1968, Norton Mockridge, The scrawl of the wild: what people write on walls and why, p. 11:
 * Then he wrote: "God is Dead" and "I Am a Cunning Linguist." McLean walked over and asked the man why he was writing these things. "Can't ya read, mister?" snarled the little man.
 * 1970, John Boyd, The Organ Bank Farm, p. 190:
 * My love's a cunning linguist. His tongue's my greatest treasure. With "tu bella" and "liebe dich" He bends me to his pleasure.
 * 2005, Vibe (volume 13, number 9, page 107)
 * An obvious choice to endorse ChapStick, Mr. Smith knows that ladies love a cunning linguist and a moist mouth.
 * 2009, Pat Boran, Flowing, Still: Irish poets on Irish poetry, p. 69:
 * Frank Sewell, the most gifted poet of a new generation of Northern Ireland poets stated that the translator goes down on history; a cunning linguist.
 * Frank Sewell, the most gifted poet of a new generation of Northern Ireland poets stated that the translator goes down on history; a cunning linguist.