This man with canny eye and straight-lipped smile fitted Harry's expectations.

Cut to the quick of it with a canny eye.

Startled, I glanced up to meet his eyes, dark and canny behind hooded, wrinkled lids.

"Spence has a canny eye and a pointed sense of humor," Laura Miller said here in 1998.

She was a stringy, middle-aged woman with quick, canny eyes.

Like Chekhov, she has a canny eye for the point at which anguish and absurdity confound each other.

He had the eyes, Nicholas thought, of a seasoned Roman general, canny and weary at the same time.

His canny black eyes swept across Riane for a moment before returning to the brother and sister.

There was one exception to the rule, a man who stood aside and eyed the rest with canny eye.

As she peered through the window at Vaughan's camera her canny eyes were clearly aware of his real interest in her.