'If so, it's a damnably clever one,' Ben fakob said.

"It was a damnably clever trap," the duke offered.

What Hazanavicius has wrought is damnably clever, but not cute; less like an arch conceit and more like the needle-sharp recollection of a dream.

The three things were damnably clever constructions of their kind, and were furnished with ingenious metallic clamps to attach them to organic developments of which I dare not form any conjecture.

It was damnably clever!

"If there were, he must have been a damnably clever one, and he could not have been too close . . . " The other possibility that O'Donnell was, considering, of course, was that Cooley had turned traitor.

The forgery was damnably clever.

And damnably clever.

The girl was damnably clever, for she gave us only the things we already knew, and but few new facts; knowing that she would inevitably die soon, she talked-but it was empty talk.