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His Mercutio is sunny and sly by turns, daring trouble to come find him and hardly believing when it does.

For excitement, people had the Deadwood Dicks and the Lone Star Lizzies, low-end dime novels aimed at working-class men and read on the sly by boys — and some girls — everywhere.

One thing is for sure: a generation would have grown up less empathetic and less politically aware, not having been educated on the sly by a brilliant, accessible parable of our real-world complexities.

It's sly by being reticent, as if you had walked into a natural history museum or an exhibition of late 20th-century machines without the wall labels to explain.

The school's excellent and tireless principal, Oli Tomlinson, finally had "Outstanding" badges made in blue and gold enamel, bearing the Ofsted logo.No excuses, no barriersA common charge from academy critics—notably teachers' unions is that they practise selection on the sly by excluding difficult pupils.

You can hunt on the sly by contacting local bar associations.

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66 min: Wonderful move by Ghana, which culminated in a sly flick by Gyan to Ayew, whose shot was deflected over thanks to a magnificent last-ditch challenge by Lahm.

Included are sly drawings by her husband, Ruben, who, she writes, fell hard for "a shy dreamer of a girl".

The sympathetic woman, played with sly charm by Mati Diop, brings Simon home and eventually he moves in.

8.54pm GMT 66 min: Sly dummy by Ibrahimovich to let the ball run wide to Lustig, who lowers the lone by ballooning the ball.

This may also be a sly joke by Mr. Meily, since Ms. Koronel, like Ms. Cuneta, is a major Philippine movie star.

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