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Harris was greatly touched with this mark of confidence, and said so, in a voice that had a perceptible tremble in it; but at the same time he said he did not feel himself worthy of so conspicuous a favor; that it might cause jealousy in the command, for there were plenty who would not hesitate to say he had used underhanded means to get the appointment, whereas his conscience would bear him witness that he had not sought it at all, nor even, in his secret heart, desired it.

* Wall Street--so named from a street in ancient New York, where was situated the stock exchange, and where the irrational organization of society permitted underhanded manipulation of all the industries of the country.

It is that he cannot have too little to do with people who are too deep for him and cannot be too careful of interference with matters he does not understand--that the plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.

You are reproaching me, underhanded, with having nobody but you to look to.

But the craft, the secrecy, the dark deep underhanded plotting, written in Mrs Boffin's countenance, make me shudder.'

They are covert, sly, underhanded communications, but, fortunately, far more conclusive than if couched in the most glowing language and the most poetic imagery--letters that must be viewed with a cautious and suspicious eye--letters that were evidently intended at the time, by Pickwick, to mislead and delude any third parties into whose hands they might fall.

This selected Govt continues to try every underhanded tactic to break his resolve.

This selected Gov't continues to try every underhanded tactic to break his resolve.

According to the anti-graft watchdog, the LNG sector was suffering a hefty annual loss due to the underhanded practices carried out by aforesaid persons in the previous government.

NAB claimed that the LNG sector was suffering an annual loss of $228 thousand annually due to the underhanded practices carried out by aforesaid persons in the previous government.

KARACHI -- Chairperson of the Sindh Human Rights Commission has written to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf stalwart, Haleem Adil Sheikh about some underhanded comments he made in a now viral video, media reported on Tuesday.

Diokno earlier claimed that government used underhanded tactics by talking secretly to his clients, who reportedly disowned the writ of kalikasan petition filed on their behalf by the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) in April.